T08 · Insecure Dependencies
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SKILL.md:203- Finding
Unpinned Third-Party Dependencies Create a Supply-Chain Execution Risk
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, line 203
Vulnerability Type: Unpinned and unverifiable third-party dependency installation
Risk Level: MediumVulnerable Code:
bash pip install azure-ai-voicelive aiohttp azure-identityThe same unpinned installation instructions are repeated in the dependency table at lines 317–319.
Technical Analysis
The Skill directs the Agent or user to install three packages without fixed versions, cryptographic hashes, a lock file, or an explicitly trusted package index. Consequently, pip resolves mutable package releases and transitive dependencies from the currently configured index.
Python package installation and import can execute package-controlled code with the privileges of the invoking process. If a direct or transitive dependency, package-index configuration, or future package release is compromised, following this instruction could result in arbitrary local code execution. No evidence establishes that the currently named packages are malicious; the vulnerability is the absence of dependency integrity and reproducibility controls.
This risk is especially relevant because the resulting process is expected to access an Azure API key, microphone audio, and an external voice service.
Attack Path
- An Agent or user follows the Skill's documented
pip installinstruction. - pip resolves the latest compatible direct packages and their transitive dependencies from the configured package index.
- An attacker compromises a dependency release, a transitive package, or the configured index and supplies malicious installation or import-time code.
- pip installs the attacker-controlled component without hash verification detecting the substitution.
- Malicious code executes with the privileges of the user or Agent running pip.
- The code may access environment variables, including the Azure credential, inspect accessible ...[truncated 1049 chars]
- An Agent or user follows the Skill's documented
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
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Pin every direct dependency to a reviewed, exact version rather than allowing mutable latest-version resolution.
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Generate a lock file that records all transitive dependencies and exact resolved versions.
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Require cryptographic hashes during installation, for example:
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Configure an explicitly trusted package source, preferably an organization-controlled mirror containing reviewed artifacts.
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Review and continuously scan direct and transitive dependencies for known vulnerabilities and unexpected ownership or release changes.
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Install and run the integration in an isolated virtual environment or container under a non-administrative account.
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Expose the Azure API key only to the runtime that requires it, and do not make the credential available during package installation.
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Remove the unnecessary
writecapability from the declared tool list unless a documented workflow requires filesystem modification.
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