T08 · Insecure Dependencies
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- Location
- SKILL.md:279
- Finding
- Unpinned Third-Party SDK Installation## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md:279` **Vulnerability Type**: Insecure dependency installation **Risk Level**: Medium **Vulnerable Code Snippet**: ```markdown - **SDKs**: Python (`pip install crowterminal`), TypeScript (`npm install crowterminal`) ``` ### Technical Analysis The documentation recommends installing the `crowterminal` packages from public Python and npm registries without fixed versions, hashes, lockfiles, or integrity verification. Consequently, users following these commands will install whichever package release the registries resolve at installation time rather than a version reviewed with this Skill. Package installation can execute package-controlled build or lifecycle logic. The project file also does not provide evidence that the registry artifacts are reproducibly built from, or cryptographically tied to, the referenced source repository. This creates a supply-chain risk if a publisher account, package, registry, or future release is compromised. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker compromises the `crowterminal` registry package, its publisher account, or its release pipeline. 2. The attacker publishes a malicious version containing installation-time or runtime payloads. 3. A user follows `SKILL.md:279` and runs `pip install crowterminal` or `npm install crowterminal`. 4. The package manager resolves and downloads the attacker-controlled current release. 5. Malicious installation, build, lifecycle, import-time, or runtime code executes in the user's environment. ### Impact Assessment Successful exploitation could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user or automation account running the package manager. Depending on that environment, the payload could access application files, environment variables such as `CROWTERMINAL_API_KEY`, developer credentials, creator data, and network-accessible services. It could also modify user-writable files or dependencies. No malici ...[truncated 134 chars]
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Replace floating installation commands with exact, reviewed versions, such as `crowterminal==X.Y.Z` for Python and `crowterminal@X.Y.Z` for npm. 2. Provide lockfiles and integrity metadata. For Python, publish a requirements file with cryptographic hashes and install with `pip --require-hashes`. For npm, commit and use a reviewed lockfile with `npm ci`. 3. Document the packages' verified official registry pages and their relationship to the referenced source repository. 4. Verify package signatures, provenance attestations, and checksums where supported. 5. Review package lifecycle and build scripts before adoption. Disable npm lifecycle scripts with `--ignore-scripts` when they are not required. 6. Install dependencies in a least-privileged, isolated virtual environment or container, and avoid exposing unrelated credentials during installation. 7. Establish an update-review process rather than allowing installations to resolve automatically to newly published releases.