T08 · Insecure Dependencies
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SKILL.md:176- Finding
Unpinned Third-Party Dependencies Create a Supply-Chain Risk
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, line 176
Vulnerability Type: Unpinned dependency installation
Risk Level: MediumVulnerable Code
bash # Python dependencies pip install Pillow pyautogui pytesseractThe same unpinned installation instructions are repeated for individual dependencies at
SKILL.md:257-259.Technical Analysis
The skill directs users or agents to install three packages without exact version constraints, package hashes, a lockfile, or an isolated environment. Dependency resolution therefore depends on mutable package-index state at installation time.
Python package installation can execute package-controlled build or installation logic. If a dependency account or release is compromised, an unsafe future version is published, or package resolution is redirected to an untrusted index, following these instructions could run attacker-controlled code. The screenshot-related permissions requested by this skill make such a compromise particularly sensitive because the resulting process may have access to screen contents.
No evidence shows that the currently named packages are malicious. The vulnerability is the unsafe and non-reproducible dependency acquisition process.
Attack Path
- An attacker compromises a referenced package, its publisher account, or the package source used by the local Python configuration.
- The attacker publishes a malicious release or otherwise influences dependency resolution.
- A user or agent follows the documented
pip installcommand. pipresolves the attacker-controlled package version and executes its installation or build behavior.- The installed package executes when the screen-capture workflow imports or invokes it.
- The payload operates with the privileges of the Python process and may access locally available screen data, files, environment variables, and network resources.
Impact Assessment
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- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Pin every dependency to a reviewed exact version in a requirements file.
- Generate and verify cryptographic hashes, for example by using a hash-locked requirements file and
pip install --require-hashes. - Publish a lockfile or reproducible dependency manifest covering transitive dependencies.
- Install dependencies inside a dedicated virtual environment rather than the system Python environment.
- Explicitly use a trusted package index and prevent unintended fallback to untrusted indexes.
- Add automated dependency vulnerability and provenance scanning.
- Document that dependency installation must not be performed from an administrator or root shell.
