skills/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/performing-api-rate-limiting-bypass/Gen Agent Trust Hub
performing-api-rate-limiting-bypass
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 15, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICALINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill ingests and processes HTTP response headers from external target APIs to determine rate-limiting configurations. This creates a surface for indirect prompt injection if the agent interprets responses from a malicious server.
- Ingestion points: The probe_rate_limit function in SKILL.md and the detect_rate_limit_headers function in scripts/agent.py read headers like X-RateLimit-Limit and Retry-After directly from HTTP responses.
- Boundary markers: No boundary markers or ignore instructions are used when processing these external inputs.
- Capability inventory: The skill has the capability to perform network requests using the requests and aiohttp Python libraries.
- Sanitization: The script does not sanitize or validate the content of the response headers before processing and displaying them.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill references standard Python dependencies (requests, aiohttp, asyncio) and external cybersecurity resources.
- The references/api-reference.md file links to a well-known cybersecurity educational site (HackTricks) for further research on rate-limiting bypass techniques.
- The instructions specify the use of common security tools including Burp Suite with the Turbo Intruder extension.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The documentation includes instructions for using command-line tools such as cURL to perform manual header manipulation and testing.
Recommendations
- Contains 2 malicious URL(s) - DO NOT USE
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