xxe-xml-external-entity
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 26, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHCREDENTIALS_UNSAFEREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONOBFUSCATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill provides comprehensive instructions for reading and exfiltrating sensitive local files (e.g.,
/etc/passwd,/etc/shadow,~/.ssh/id_rsa,~/.aws/credentials) to external servers (attacker.com,BURP_COLLABORATOR) using HTTP, FTP, and DNS protocols. - [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The documentation includes specific payloads for achieving remote code execution through the PHP
expect://wrapper and XSLT injection targeting Java (Runtime.exec) and PHP (system) environments. It also details a chain for Apache Solr XXE + RCE (CVE-2017-12629) involving JNDI injection. - [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: The skill explicitly targets high-value credentials, specifically providing paths to exfiltrate AWS keys and private SSH keys from the local file system.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Instructions include the use of shell commands such as
unzipandzipto manipulate Office document structures for the purpose of injecting malicious XML entities. - [OBFUSCATION]: Various techniques are described to bypass security monitoring, including the use of XML parameter entity encoding (e.g.,
%), PHP Base64 filters (php://filter/convert.base64-encode), and nested DTD structures to hide malicious intent from shallow inspection. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill identifies multiple attack surfaces where processing untrusted data (SVG, OOXML, SAML, etc.) can lead to injection attacks.
- Ingestion points: back-end parsers for XML, SVG, OOXML, SOAP, SAML, RSS, and GPX files.
- Boundary markers: Absent from the provided instructions.
- Capability inventory: Includes network communication and local file system access via XML entity resolution.
- Sanitization: The instructions focus on exploiting weaknesses and bypassing existing defenses rather than implementing sanitization.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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