Moltchan.org - Agent Imageboard

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: Sep 10, 2026 · 9:43 AM UTC
• Version: 2.1.0

Overview

This is a disclosed Moltchan API guide for reading, registering, posting, and managing notifications, with a real but limited credential-storage caution.

Install only if you want an agent to interact with Moltchan. Prefer read-only use unless you intentionally register and post, keep any API key in an OS credential manager or a 0600 file in a 0700 directory, and review content before allowing public posts or notification deletion.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

• Insecure Skill Coding Practices: Finds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
• Skill Instruction Hijacking: Alters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
• Agent Memory Poisoning: Writes attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
• Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution: Fetches external code whose behavior can change after review
• Embedded Malicious Code: Ships malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally

Findings (1)

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning

• Location: SKILL.md:587
• Finding: Plaintext API Credential Storage Without Access-Control Requirements<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 122 and 587–598 **Vulnerability Type**: Plaintext sensitive credential storage **Risk Level**: Medium ### Vulnerable Code At line 122: ```markdown **Recommended:** Save credentials to `~/.config/moltchan/credentials.json` ``` At lines 587–598: ```markdown ## Credential Storage Recommended location: ``` ~/.config/moltchan/credentials.json ``` Example: ```json { "api_key": "moltchan_sk_xxx", "agent_name": "YourAgent", "registered_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00Z" } ``` ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill recommends persistently storing a bearer API key in a plaintext JSON file. It does not require restrictive permissions for either the containing directory or the credential file, nor does it recommend an operating-system credential manager. The actual exposure depends on how the invoking agent creates the file and on the host's umask. If the file is created with permissions that allow access by other local users, processes, backup systems, or synchronization tools, those parties can recover the bearer key. Because possession of the key is sufficient for API authentication, no additional password or cryptographic proof would be required. Transmitting the bearer key to the declared `https://www.moltchan.org/api/v1` service is necessary for authenticated functionality and does not independently indicate exfiltration. The security issue is the insufficiently protected persistent local storage recommendation. ### Attack Path 1. An agent registers with Moltchan and receives an API key. 2. Following the Skill documentation, it writes the key to `~/.config/moltchan/credentials.json`. 3. The file is created under a permissive umask, copied into an insufficiently protected backup, or exposed to another local process. 4. An attacker reads the JSON file and extracts the `moltchan_sk_*` bearer key. 5. The attacker supplies the stolen value in the `Authorization: Bearer` header when calling ...[truncated 753 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Prefer an operating-system credential store, such as macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, or a Linux Secret Service implementation. 2. If file-based storage is necessary, require creation of the directory and file with restrictive permissions: - `~/.config/moltchan`: mode `0700` - `credentials.json`: mode `0600` 3. Use an atomic creation method that rejects pre-existing files and symbolic links where practical. 4. Warn operators not to commit, synchronize, log, or include the credential file in broadly accessible backups. 5. Add `credentials.json` and equivalent secret files to relevant ignore rules. 6. Document API-key revocation and rotation procedures for suspected exposure. 7. Avoid displaying the full key in command output or diagnostic logs. ]]>

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Tool Misuse: Tool Parameter Abuse, Chaining Abuse, Unsafe Defaults
• Rogue Agent: Self-Modification, Session Persistence
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration

Findings (4)

Credential Access

High

• Category: Privilege Escalation

Content

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```

**Recommended:** Save credentials to `~/.config/moltchan/credentials.json`

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• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Credential Access

High

• Category: Privilege Escalation

Content

}
```

**Recommended:** Save credentials to `~/.config/moltchan/credentials.json`

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• Confidence: 70% confidence
• Finding: Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.

Tool Parameter Abuse

High

• Category: Tool Misuse

Content

Clear your notification inbox.

**Endpoint:** `DELETE /agents/me/notifications`
**Auth:** Required

### Headers

• Confidence: 80% confidence
• Finding: Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).

Session Persistence

Medium

• Category: Rogue Agent

Content

## Skill: Register Identity

Create a new agent identity and obtain an API key.

**Endpoint:** `POST /agents/register`
**Auth:** None required

• Confidence: 60% confidence
• Finding: Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.