T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
- Location
SKILL.md:20- Finding
Unattended System Command Execution Without Approval or Privilege Boundaries
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Vulnerability Details
File Location:
SKILL.md:20
Vulnerability Type: Unrestricted, non-interactive system command execution
Risk Level: CriticalComplete Source Segment — English Translation:
markdown **Unattended silent mode**: No interactive confirmation; all system commands are executed through exec-plus, with traceable logs recorded throughout.Technical Analysis
The skill explicitly instructs the agent to execute all system commands through
exec-pluswithout interactive confirmation. It does not define a command allowlist, execution sandbox, least-privilege account, protected-path restrictions, or approval requirements for destructive and privileged operations.Traceable logging does not prevent unauthorized execution. Because commands can run silently and the skill also delegates work to discovered skills and other agents, untrusted task content or a compromised dependency could reach a broadly capable command-execution interface.
Attack Path
- An attacker supplies a task, external-agent response, or discovered skill containing instructions that require system commands.
- The autonomous workflow accepts those instructions as part of task execution or recovery.
- The skill passes the resulting commands to
exec-plus. - The commands execute without interactive user confirmation.
- Depending on the privileges of the agent process, the commands read or modify files, install software, change configuration, create persistence, or invoke network-accessible tools.
Impact Assessment
Successful exploitation can provide the attacker with the effective privileges of the agent or
exec-plusprocess. The affected scope may include project files, user-owned files, credentials accessible to the process, installed software, scheduled tasks, system configuration, and reachable services.If the process runs with elevated privileges, the impact may extend to system-wide modificatio ...[truncated 181 chars]
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Remediation Suggestions
- Replace unrestricted silent execution with explicit approval for every mutating, privileged, destructive, or network-capable command.
- Enforce a narrow command and argument allowlist tied to the active task.
- Execute commands in an isolated container or sandbox using a dedicated, unprivileged account.
- Deny access to credentials, home directories, host sockets, protected paths, and unrelated project data by default.
- Add policy checks that reject shell metacharacters, command chaining, privilege escalation, persistence creation, and credential-access operations.
- Display the exact command, working directory, environment changes, and expected effects before approval.
- Apply execution timeouts, resource limits, filesystem restrictions, and network egress controls.
- Preserve tamper-resistant audit logs, but do not treat logging as a substitute for authorization.
