T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
- Location
SKILL.md:118- Finding
Overbroad Agent Session-Log Access and Automatic Configuration Modification
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, line 118
Vulnerability Type: Excessive access to historical session data and unauthorized configuration mutation
Risk Level: MediumSource excerpt translated into English:
markdown **Failed-session mining (headroom learn mode):** Analyze failed Agent session logs, identify error patterns, and automatically correct configuration files. Benchmark: 9 failed sessions / 378 calls → saves 8,000 tokens per session.Technical Analysis
The Skill instructs the Agent to inspect failed Agent session logs and automatically modify configuration files. Token-cost analysis does not inherently require unrestricted access to historical session content or permission to mutate configuration, so these instructions exceed least-privilege requirements.
Session logs may contain private conversations, source code, filesystem paths, tool results, API responses, authentication material, or other sensitive data. The Skill does not specify:
- Which sessions or log fields may be accessed.
- How secrets and personal data must be redacted.
- Which configuration files may be changed.
- Whether proposed changes require user approval.
- Whether backups, validation, or rollback are mandatory.
Although the project contains no executable implementation, an Agent following these instructions with filesystem or configuration tools could exercise the Agent's existing privileges without a sufficiently constrained authorization boundary.
Attack Path
- A user invokes the Skill to reduce token consumption.
- The Agent enables the failed-session mining recommendation.
- The Agent searches historical session logs using its available filesystem or platform permissions.
- Sensitive content from unrelated or previous sessions is loaded into the active context.
- The Agent derives configuration changes from the logs.
- The Agent automatically writes those changes without ...[truncated 846 chars]
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Remediation Suggestions
- Require explicit, informed user approval before reading any historical session logs.
- Restrict analysis to user-selected sessions and fields required for token metrics.
- Extract aggregate measurements instead of loading full conversation content whenever possible.
- Redact API keys, credentials, personal data, source code, and confidential tool output before analysis.
- Define an allowlist of configuration files and settings that may be proposed for modification.
- Replace automatic configuration mutation with a review workflow that presents the exact proposed diff.
- Require separate confirmation before applying each persistent change.
- Create a backup and provide a tested rollback procedure before configuration writes.
- Record an audit log containing accessed resources, proposed changes, approvals, and results.
- Deny access to unrelated users, tenants, workspaces, and sessions by default.
