T08 · Insecure Dependencies
Note
- Location
- SKILL.md:66
- Finding
- Unpinned Third-Party Dependency Installation## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md:66-68` **Vulnerability Type**: Unpinned and integrity-unverified Python dependency **Risk Level**: Low ### Vulnerable Code ```bash ### 1) Install Dependency ```bash pip install requests ``` ``` ### Technical Analysis The installation instructions direct users to install `requests` without a version constraint, lockfile, hash verification, or explicit trusted package index. Consequently, the installed package and its transitive dependencies may differ from those reviewed during this audit. Although `requests` is a legitimate and widely used package, this installation pattern provides no reproducible dependency resolution or integrity guarantee. If a future package release, transitive dependency, configured package index, or dependency-resolution environment is compromised, following the documented command could install attacker-controlled code. This finding is limited to supply-chain hardening. The audited project does not itself contain evidence that the named package is malicious. ### Attack Path 1. An attacker compromises a future release of the dependency, one of its transitive dependencies, or a package index used by the victim's pip configuration. 2. A user follows the documented `pip install requests` instruction. 3. Pip resolves the dependency to the attacker-controlled or compromised version because no reviewed version or cryptographic hash is required. 4. Malicious installation hooks or imported runtime code execute in the user's Python environment. 5. The malicious code obtains the permissions of the account running pip or the Skill. ### Impact Assessment Successful exploitation could permit arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user performing the installation or running the Skill. Depending on that user's permissions, the affected scope could include files, credentials, environment variables, and network resources accessible to that account. If installation is performed w ...[truncated 85 chars]
- Remediation
- ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Pin `requests` and all transitive dependencies to reviewed versions in a requirements or lock file. 2. Require cryptographic hashes during installation, for example: ```bash python -m pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt ``` 3. Generate the requirements file through a reproducible dependency-locking workflow and review dependency updates before adoption. 4. Configure installation to use an explicitly trusted package index. 5. Recommend installation inside a dedicated virtual environment and warn users not to run pip with administrative privileges. 6. Add automated dependency and vulnerability scanning to the release process.