T08 · Insecure Dependencies
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- Location
- SKILL.md:50
- Finding
- Unpinned Third-Party Runtime Dependencies## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, line 50 **Vulnerability Type**: Unpinned third-party dependencies **Risk Level**: Medium **Code Snippet**: ```bash npm install ccxt https-proxy-agent ``` ### Technical Analysis The installation command does not specify dependency versions, a lockfile, integrity hashes, or an expected package registry. It therefore resolves mutable package versions from the user's configured npm registry at installation time. npm installation may also execute package lifecycle scripts. Because the advertised application handles cryptocurrency exchange credentials and trading operations, compromise of a direct or transitive dependency could affect highly sensitive assets. The repository contains no lockfile or other dependency-integrity control that would make installation reproducible or constrain users to reviewed versions. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker compromises a named package, one of its transitive dependencies, or the registry through which it is resolved. 2. The attacker publishes a malicious version or injects malicious lifecycle behavior. 3. A user follows the documented unpinned `npm install` command. 4. npm resolves the malicious release and may execute its lifecycle scripts during installation. 5. The malicious dependency executes in the user's environment and could access files, process environment values, application configuration, or runtime trading data available to that process. ### Impact Assessment Exploitation could permit arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running npm or the trading application. Within that scope, an attacker could potentially obtain exchange API credentials, modify trading logic, place unauthorized orders when usable credentials are available, or access other files readable by the process. The exact impact cannot be verified further because the advertised application source code is absent from the audited project.
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions - Pin every direct dependency to a reviewed exact version. - Generate, review, and commit a package lockfile. - In deployment documentation, replace mutable installation instructions with `npm ci`, which installs from the lockfile. - Use the expected official registry explicitly and protect CI or local npm configuration from registry substitution. - Review direct and transitive dependencies, including lifecycle scripts, before release. - Use automated vulnerability monitoring and update dependencies through a controlled review process. - Consider disabling lifecycle scripts where compatible with the application and verify package integrity during CI and deployment.