infisical-gateway
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Aug 26, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONPERSISTENCECOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill provides instructions for installing the gateway as a system service using
sudo, which grants the application root-level privileges on the host system to perform system-level operations. - Evidence:
sudo infisical gateway systemd installcommand inreferences/deployment-and-networking.md. - [PERSISTENCE]: The skill utilizes
systemdto ensure the gateway service automatically starts and remains active across system reboots, creating a persistent presence on the host. - Evidence: Deployment steps in
references/deployment-and-networking.mdthat configure the service via thesystemd installcommand. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill contains multiple shell commands for the agent or user to execute for enrollment, starting, and managing the gateway lifecycle.
- Evidence: Commands such as
infisical gateway startandinfisical gateway systemd installinreferences/deployment-and-networking.md. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The gateway architecture creates a communication bridge where an external platform (Infisical) can send requests into private internal networks, introducing a surface for potentially malicious instructions to reach sensitive internal services.
- Ingestion points: The gateway receives proxied requests from the Infisical platform through an outbound SSH reverse tunnel via a relay server (SKILL.md).
- Boundary markers: The system uses certificate-based SSH authentication and double encryption to protect the traffic channel (SKILL.md).
- Capability inventory: The gateway has the capability to interact with private databases, directories (LDAP), internal APIs, and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) using TCP or HTTP protocols (references/pools-and-consumers.md).
- Sanitization: Traffic is double-encrypted between the platform and relay; however, the gateway ultimately translates these platform-originated requests into operations on the local internal network (references/deployment-and-networking.md).
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