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GHSA-74p7-6h78-gw8p: skillctl: argument injection, path traversal in --dest, FIFO/device DoS, hardlink exfiltration, and commit-trailer forgery

June 22, 2026

Following the path-safety patches in GHSA-wx3m-whqv-xv47 (v0.1.2), a comprehensive multi-angle audit surfaced five further vulnerabilities, now patched in v0.1.3:

  1. source_sha argument injection in git ls-tree (CRITICAL). InstalledSkill.source_sha deserialized from .skills.toml (committed, PR-mergeable) flowed unvalidated into git ls-tree -r -z <refspec> -- <path>. Because the refspec sits before --, an attacker who slipped a malicious .skills.toml into a PR could set source_sha = "--name-only" / --abbrev=0 / --output=… and corrupt the diff classifier (which drives pull / push destructive decisions), or forge a divergence state to trick push --on-divergence overwrite into clobbering the wrong content.
  2. FIFO / device / socket denial-of-service in copy_dir_all (CRITICAL). The file-type branch only checked is_dir() / is_symlink(); a FIFO inside a skill folder fell through to fs::copy, which blocks indefinitely waiting for a writer. A character device like /dev/zero would read until OOM. Reachable on skillctl add against any adversarial library.
  3. add --dest arbitrary-directory wipe in agent mode (HIGH). --dest accepted absolute paths and .. traversal without validation, so a single invocation skillctl add --dest /Users/victim/.ssh --on-conflict overwrite --skill <maliciously-named> would remove_dir_all arbitrary directories — no .skills.toml round-trip required. Reachable in any non-interactive / agent-driven workflow where flag values may be attacker-supplied.
  4. Commit-message trailer forgery via skill names (HIGH). Skill names were spliced verbatim into git commit -m "update skill: <name>" and into the commit.message field of --json output. A skill named foo\nCo-Authored-By: evil@x produced a forged commit trailer that downstream tooling (Linear, GitHub commit-bot, release-notes scrapers) treats as real authorship metadata.
  5. Hardlink exfiltration via the round-trip (HIGH). fs::symlink_metadata reports a regular file for hardlinks (shared inode), and fs::copy reads the target content. An untrusted agent writing <project>/my-skill/data as a hardlink to ~/.ssh/id_rsa would have shipped the SSH key content to the (possibly public) library on the next skillctl push or detect.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-74p7-6h78-gw8p
  • github.com/umanio-agency/skillctl/commit/28dfce3
  • github.com/umanio-agency/skillctl/releases/tag/v0.1.3
  • github.com/umanio-agency/skillctl/security/advisories/GHSA-74p7-6h78-gw8p
  • github.com/umanio-agency/skillctl/security/advisories/GHSA-wx3m-whqv-xv47

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.1.3

Fixed versions

  • 0.1.3

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.1.3 or above.

Weakness

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
  • CWE-88: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
  • CWE-93: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

Source file

cargo/skillctl/GHSA-74p7-6h78-gw8p.yml

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