T08 · Insecure Dependencies
- Location
SKILL.md:7- Finding
Unpinned Third-Party Dependency Installation
- Content
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md:7
Vulnerability Type: Unpinned runtime dependency
Risk Level: LowVulnerable Code Snippet:
yaml dependencies: "pip install pillow"Technical Analysis
The Skill directs users or agents to install Pillow without specifying a reviewed version, cryptographic hashes, a lockfile, or a trusted package index. Dependency resolution therefore relies on mutable third-party repository state at installation time.
The package name is consistent with the code's
PILimport, and the audit found no evidence that the Skill intentionally uses dependency confusion or typosquatting. Nevertheless, an unconstrained installation is not reproducible and could retrieve a compromised, malicious, or unexpectedly incompatible future release.Attack Path
- A user or agent loads the Skill and follows its dependency instruction.
pip install pillowresolves the package from the configured Python package index at runtime.- If the selected upstream release, package-distribution channel, or local package-index configuration has been compromised, malicious package content is downloaded.
- Malicious installation behavior may execute during installation, or malicious library code may execute when the image-resizing code imports or invokes Pillow.
- The payload operates with the privileges of the account running
pipor the image-resizing process.
Impact Assessment
Successful supply-chain exploitation could provide arbitrary code execution under the installing user's privileges. This could expose files, environment variables, and other resources accessible to that account and could modify its Python environment. The scope does not inherently include elevated system privileges unless installation is performed as an administrator or root user.
No network exfiltration, persistence, privilege escalation, prompt hijacking, or embedded malicious payload was observe ...[truncated 32 chars]
- Remediation
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Remediation Suggestions
- Pin Pillow to a specifically reviewed version instead of resolving the latest release dynamically.
- Store dependencies in a version-controlled requirements or lock file.
- Require cryptographic hashes, for example through
pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt. - Configure an explicitly trusted package index and avoid unreviewed mirrors.
- Install the dependency in an isolated, non-privileged virtual environment.
- Periodically review and update the pinned version for security fixes, regenerating and validating hashes during each approved update.
