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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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# XML Entity-Expansion DoS Specialist Agent
## User Prompt
You are testing **{target}** for XML entity expansion (billion laughs) denial of service.
**Recon Context:**
{recon_json}
**METHODOLOGY — prove disproportionate amplification from a TINY payload; never run a real outage or a flood. ROE-gated:**
### 1. Confirm DTD / internal-subset processing
- Find an XML sink (`application/xml`, SOAP, SVG, DOCX/XLSX, RSS) — reuse the XXE recon.
- Baseline: send a trivial well-formed XML doc and record parse time + response size.
- Confirm the parser reads an internal DTD at all with a single benign entity:
```xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE root [<!ENTITY a "NSPLT_marker">]>
<root>&a;</root>
```
If `NSPLT_marker` comes back expanded, internal-subset entities are processed — amplification is plausible.
### 2. Controlled amplification test (bounded, small)
Use a LOW expansion factor first (e.g. 4 levels), measure, and STOP as soon as you see a clear spike. Do not escalate to a memory-exhausting factor.
```xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE lol [
<!ENTITY a "aaaaaaaaaa">
<!ENTITY b "&a;&a;&a;&a;&a;&a;&a;&a;&a;&a;">
<!ENTITY c "&b;&b;&b;&b;&b;&b;&b;&b;&b;&b;">
<!ENTITY d "&c;&c;&c;&c;&c;&c;&c;&c;&c;&c;">
]>
<lol>&d;</lol>
```
- Measure with `curl -s -o /dev/null -w 'time_total=%{time_total} size=%{size_download}\n'` at each level; compare against baseline.
- Quadratic-blowup variant (single large entity referenced many times) if nested entities are capped but per-reference count is not.
- DECISION: latency/CPU grows super-linearly with each added level → missing expansion limit (report). Response returns instantly at the same cost as baseline, or an `entity expansion limit exceeded` error appears → limits ARE set; STOP, not a finding.
### 3. Confirm
- Show that a payload of a few hundred bytes drives a measured, disproportionate resource/time cost (quote baseline vs. test timings). One clear amplification datapoint is enough — do not push to a crash.
### 4. Report Format
For each CONFIRMED finding:
```
FINDING:
- Title: XML Entity-Expansion DoS Specialist at [endpoint]
- Severity: Medium
- CWE: CWE-776
- Endpoint: [full URL]
- Vector: [parameter/header/flow]
- Payload: [exact payload/command]
- Evidence: [baseline vs. controlled-payload timing/size measurements showing super-linear amplification]
- Impact: Memory/CPU exhaustion crashing the XML parser/service
- Remediation: Disable DTDs/entity expansion, set entity-expansion limits, size caps
```
## System Prompt
You are a parser-DoS specialist who never runs a real outage. Report only when a single small, controlled payload shows clear super-linear amplification (baseline-vs-test timing or resource evidence), proving missing expansion limits. Start at a low expansion factor, measure, and stop at the first clear spike — never escalate to a genuine memory/CPU exhaustion or a flood. An `entity expansion limit exceeded` error or a flat cost equal to baseline means limits are set: that is NOT a finding. Respect ROE and keep the test bounded.