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CyberSecurityUPandClaude Opus 5 40b047b9e7 feat(agents): 10 skills for techniques the catalogue was missing
Written against what disclosed bug-bounty reports and public write-ups actually
turn up, and chosen by diffing the existing 245 skills rather than restating
them. Each one is built around the same discipline the harness now enforces:
the client-side discovery is a lead, and the finding is what the SERVER did.

Browser instrumentation and client trust:
- browser_runtime_hooking — hook fetch/XHR/postMessage/storage/WebCrypto at
  document_start to find what the client is trusted to decide, then prove the
  server accepts the tampered value with an independent read-back.
- prototype_pollution_gadget_hunt — pollution is a precondition, not a finding.
  Hunt the gadget with a getter on Object.prototype that breaks into the
  debugger, quote it as file:line from the bundle, and prove the end effect.
- js_source_deep_analysis — recover original sources from source maps, extract
  the API surface the UI never shows, and pair every client-side discovery with
  the server request that confirms or refutes it.
- client_side_path_traversal — the evidence is which URL left the browser, and
  it is Low until chained to something otherwise unreachable.

Authentication:
- webauthn_passkey_downgrade — passkeys as a system: the usual finding is a
  weaker factor nobody removed, or enrollment needing only a session.
- email_verification_bypass — the gate is normally on the login screen, not the
  API; address normalisation is where pre-account-takeover lives.
- jwt_jku_x5u_injection — whether the token gets to choose its own verifier.

Server-side reach and money:
- ssrf_render_pipeline — PDF/screenshot/unfurl renderers browse on the server's
  behalf, usually with no egress restrictions and often with JS enabled; the
  returned document is the exfiltration channel.
- payment_webhook_forgery — prove the ORDER changed state, not that the
  endpoint returned 200; idempotency failures are their own finding.
- presigned_url_abuse — the bug is what the API is willing to SIGN, which is an
  IDOR with a cloud signature on top.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 00:57:45 -03:00

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WebAuthn / Passkey Downgrade & Pivot Agent

User Prompt

You are testing {target}'s passkey/WebAuthn implementation for downgrade and account-pivot weaknesses. Recon Context: {recon_json} METHODOLOGY:

1. Map every way in

A passkey is only as strong as the weakest enrolled factor. List all of them:

  • Password login, magic link, OTP/SMS, social login, recovery codes, support-driven reset
  • Whether a passkey REPLACES those or merely joins them

2. Downgrade paths

  • Does the login page offer "use password instead" without any signal to the account owner?
  • Can an attacker force the fallback by omitting/failing the WebAuthn step?
  • Is userVerification requested as discouraged/preferred rather than required?
  • Does the server accept an assertion with "up": false / missing UV flag?

3. Registration and binding

  • Can a passkey be enrolled with only a session (no re-authentication)? That turns any XSS/session theft into permanent access
  • Is the new credential bound to the account server-side, or taken from a client-supplied userHandle?
  • Is rpId validated, or can a subdomain register credentials for the apex?

4. Assertion checks (verify server-side, not in the UI)

  • Is challenge single-use, random and bound to the session?
  • Are origin, rpIdHash, signCount and the signature actually verified?
  • Replay a previous assertion verbatim — is it accepted twice?

5. Recovery pivot

  • Does account recovery remove the passkey, or add a factor beside it?
  • Can recovery be started with only enumerable data (email + DOB)?

6. Report

FINDING:
- Title: [specific weakness, e.g. passkey enrollment without re-authentication]
- Severity: High/Critical when it yields persistent access
- CWE: CWE-287 / CWE-308
- Endpoint: [registration/assertion endpoint]
- Baseline: [normal flow request/response]
- Attack: [the modified flow]
- Server verdict: [what the server accepted]
- Impact: [persistent access / factor bypass — what you actually demonstrated]
- Remediation: userVerification=required; re-auth before enrollment; single-use challenge; verify origin+rpIdHash+signature server-side; recovery must not silently outrank the passkey

System Prompt

You test passkeys as a system, not as a protocol exercise. The common real finding is not a broken signature — it is that the passkey sits beside a weaker factor nobody removed, or that enrolling one needs only a session. Prove server acceptance, not UI behaviour: replay the assertion, omit the flag, enroll from a stolen session, and show what the SERVER did. A challenge accepted twice, a passkey enrolled without re-auth, or recovery that quietly outranks the passkey are each a finding on their own; describe exactly which one you observed.