anthropic-sdk-attack-probe
Fail
Audited by Snyk on Jun 13, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis
HIGH W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
- Insecure credential handling detected (high risk: 0.80). This skill explicitly instructs the agent to provoke and detect leakage of a "canary" token and other sensitive contents (e.g., /etc/passwd or tool outputs) from a target and to report when the secret appears, which requires the LLM to handle and potentially output secret values verbatim.
CRITICAL E006: Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.
- Malicious code pattern detected (high risk: 1.00). The document contains explicit, actionable probe payloads and code patterns that enable data exfiltration (canary/system-prompt leakage), credential exposure, and backdoor-style remote actions via tool misuse (file reads like /etc/passwd, inducing rm -rf), plus role‑play/image/obfuscation techniques to bypass guards — high-risk if repurposed or executed against real targets.
MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.95). The required workflow is an Anthropic SDK “attack probe” that sends attacker-crafted free-text payloads (e.g., XML tag confusion, prefill abuse, tool-injection prompts, image-instruction text) into the agent’s LLM context via the app’s chat request body, so the LLM ingests outsider-authored prompt text at runtime.
MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
- Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill contains explicit probes that ask the model to invoke tools to read sensitive system files (e.g., /etc/passwd) and attempt destructive commands (e.g., "rm -rf /"), which directly encourage modifying or exposing the host machine's state.
Issues (4)
W007
HIGHInsecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
E006
CRITICALMalicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W013
MEDIUMAttempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
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