T08 · Insecure Dependencies
Warning
- Location
- SKILL.md:10
- Finding
- Unpinned Third-Party Node Package Creates a Supply-Chain Risk## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 10–15 **Vulnerability Type**: `T08: Insecure Dependencies` **Risk Level**: Medium ### Vulnerable Code ```yaml { "id": "plugin", "kind": "node", "package": "@a2a/openclaw-plugin", "label": "Install A2A Corp plugin", } ``` ### Technical Analysis The skill directs the platform to install the third-party Node package `@a2a/openclaw-plugin` without specifying an exact version or package integrity hash. The project also contains no lockfile or vendored plugin source that would allow the installed artifact to be compared with the version reviewed during the audit. As a result, package resolution may retrieve a release that differs from the one originally intended or reviewed. The effective executable code can therefore change after this skill file has been approved. This exposes installations to package-publisher compromise, registry-account compromise, malicious future releases, and unintended behavior introduced by dependency updates. The repository contains only `SKILL.md`; the plugin implementation was not available for inspection. No malicious payload was identified in the audited file itself. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker compromises the package publisher account, publication token, registry channel, or another relevant part of the package supply chain. 2. The attacker publishes a malicious or compromised release of `@a2a/openclaw-plugin`. 3. A user or agent installs the skill after that release becomes the version selected by the package resolver. 4. Because the dependency has no exact version or verified integrity value, the installation retrieves the changed package. 5. The package's installation or runtime code executes within the permissions granted to the host agent or Node process. 6. The malicious code may inspect agent inputs, manipulate marketplace requests, interfere with billed operations, access resources available to the process, or perform other actions permitted by the ...[truncated 752 chars]
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Pin `@a2a/openclaw-plugin` to a reviewed, immutable, exact version rather than relying on mutable package resolution. 2. Record and enforce the expected package integrity hash through an appropriate lockfile or installation mechanism. 3. Commit the lockfile to the project and require deterministic, locked dependency installation. 4. Verify package publisher ownership, registry provenance, and release signatures or attestations where supported. 5. Review the plugin source and its transitive dependencies before approval, because they were not included in this repository. 6. Use automated dependency monitoring and require security review before updating the pinned version. 7. Run the plugin in a least-privilege sandbox with restricted filesystem, environment-variable, credential, and network access. 8. Require explicit authorization and spending limits for billed marketplace executions so dependency compromise cannot silently create unrestricted charges.