T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
- Location
SKILL.md:20- Finding
Excessive Tool Permissions for a Read-Oriented Knowledge-Base Audit Skill
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md, lines 20–23 and 195–205
Vulnerability Type: Excessive execution and write permissions
Risk Level: MediumVulnerable Code
yaml tools: - read - exec - writeThe same file advertises capabilities beyond the stated read-oriented health-check purpose:
markdown ## Core Attributes - **Automated execution**: Knowledge-base health checks for broken links, missing frontmatter, inconsistent tags, and covers - **File processing**: Supports reading, parsing, and writing multiple file formats - **API integration**: Calls external services through standardized interfaces and processes responses - **Command execution**: Executes system commands in a secure sandbox and collects results ## Feature Description Health check knowledge base - **File processing**: Supports reading, parsing, and writing multiple file formats - **API integration**: Calls external services through standardized interfaces and processes responses - **Command execution**: Executes system commands in a secure sandbox and collects resultsTechnical Analysis
The Skill's declared purpose is to inspect a knowledge base for broken links, missing frontmatter, tag inconsistencies, and missing covers. Most of these operations only require read access. Nevertheless, the Skill requests
execandwritetools and broadly advertises system-command execution and external API integration.No specific commands, external endpoints, destination allowlists, writable path restrictions, or user-approval controls are defined. Consequently, an Agent that grants permissions based on this declaration may expose capabilities beyond those necessary for the legitimate task. This violates the principle of least privilege.
The reviewed file does not contain a concrete malicious command or payload. Exploitation therefore depends on the hosting Agent interpreting the broad capability declarations and subsequently processing malicious or ambig ...[truncated 1497 chars]
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Remove unnecessary tool permissions and retain only read access for standard audits:
yaml tools: - read- Implement link validation through a narrowly scoped network capability rather than unrestricted command execution.
- If command execution is essential, document the exact commands and arguments permitted, reject shell metacharacters, and execute through a fixed argument array rather than a shell.
- Restrict execution to a sandbox with no access to credentials, user configuration, or files outside the supplied project directory.
- Require explicit user confirmation before any command execution, file modification, or external transmission.
- If automatic remediation is supported, expose it as a separate opt-in mode and constrain writes to validated paths inside
project_dir. - Define an allowlist of protocols and destinations for external link checks, and prohibit transmission of private document contents or credentials.
- Remove unsupported claims about API integration and command execution if those features are not actually required or implemented.
