T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
- Location
SKILL.md:24- Finding
Unnecessary Execution Capability Violates Least Privilege
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md:24-26; duplicated inSKILL.md.bak_v161test:29-31
Vulnerability Type: Excessive tool permissions
Risk Level: MediumComplete Code Snippet:
yaml tools: - read - execTechnical Analysis
The skill declares access to the
exectool even though the package contains only Markdown documentation and no implementation that requires command execution. Granting shell or process-execution capability expands the agent's authority beyond the demonstrated requirements of financial-report analysis.The documentation also classifies the skill as requiring execution support, but it does not define an execution allowlist, command validation rules, sandbox restrictions, or user-confirmation requirements. If instructions, financial-report content, or other untrusted input influence later agent behavior, the unnecessarily available execution tool could turn a content-level attack into local command execution.
No direct malicious command invocation was found. The risk arises from the unjustified capability declaration and absence of compensating controls.
Attack Path
- A user installs or loads the skill on an agent platform.
- The platform grants the skill access to the declared
exectool. - The agent processes an untrusted financial report or other attacker-controlled content.
- Malicious or misleading content causes the agent to attempt an unnecessary command.
- Because execution capability was pre-authorized, the command may run with the agent process's operating-system privileges.
Impact Assessment
Successful exploitation could permit command execution with the privileges of the agent process. Depending on platform sandboxing, this could expose local files, environment variables, credentials available to the process, or network-accessible resources. The potential scope is the execution environment assigned to the agent; no evidence e ...[truncated 47 chars]
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Remove
execfrom the declared tools because the reviewed package contains no implementation requiring it. - If execution is added later, use a narrowly scoped tool instead of unrestricted command execution.
- Enforce an explicit command and argument allowlist.
- Run commands in an isolated, non-privileged sandbox with restricted filesystem and network access.
- Require explicit user approval before executing installation commands or commands derived from document content.
- Prevent untrusted financial-report text from being interpreted as executable agent instructions.
- Remove
