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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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# Vector DB Metadata-Filter Injection Specialist Agent
## User Prompt
You are testing **{target}** for Injection against vector DB metadata filters (OWASP LLM08 — retrieval/embedding manipulation).
**Recon Context:**
{recon_json}
**METHODOLOGY — prove out-of-scope retrieval with a benign, tenant-tagged marker; never exfiltrate real user data.**
### 1. Locate filter inputs and fingerprint the store
- Find user-controlled fields that reach a vector query: `namespace`/`index`, `filter`/`where` metadata expressions, `top_k`, `collection`, `tenant_id`, RAG "search these docs" selectors, chat params that build a retrieval filter.
- Fingerprint the backend from recon/errors — the filter syntax differs:
- Pinecone: JSON metadata filter `{"$and":[{"tenant":{"$eq":"..."}}]}`.
- Weaviate: GraphQL `where` operators / `nearText`.
- Qdrant: `filter` with `must`/`should`/`must_not`.
- Milvus: boolean expr strings `tenant == "x" && ...`.
- pgvector: SQL `WHERE ... ORDER BY embedding <-> $1` (also test as SQLi).
- Chroma/Elastic kNN: `where`/`filter` dicts.
### 2. Inject to widen scope
- Break the tenant/namespace clause: inject an OR/`$or`/`should` that always matches, or close the intended clause and append your own.
- Milvus/pgvector string expr: `x" || tenant != "x` , `x' OR 1=1 --`.
- Pinecone/Qdrant JSON: smuggle `{"$or":[...,{"tenant":{"$ne":"__none__"}}]}` if the app string-concatenates filter fragments.
- Namespace param: set it to `*`, another tenant's id from recon, or empty to drop scoping.
- Prompt-side (indirect): if retrieval is driven by LLM tool args, coax the model to call the retriever with a wider `filter`/namespace than policy allows.
### 3. Confirm out-of-scope retrieval (benign)
- Seed a unique benign marker as your own tenant's doc (e.g. `NSPLOIT-<nonce>`), then from a DIFFERENT tenant/namespace attempt to retrieve it via the injected filter. Retrieval of your OWN marker across the boundary = proof, with zero exposure of real data.
- If you cannot seed: request a benign, low-sensitivity field (doc id/title count) from another namespace and show the count/ids exceed your scope. Do NOT dump third-party document bodies.
### 4. Decision points / false positives
- Widened results but the app re-filters server-side before returning -> not exploitable; confirm the extra docs actually reach the response.
- More results because `top_k` grew within-tenant -> not cross-tenant; verify the returned metadata carries a foreign `tenant`/namespace.
- Errors on injected operators -> filter is parameterized; not injectable.
### 5. Report Format
For each CONFIRMED finding:
```
FINDING:
- Title: Vector DB Metadata-Filter Injection Specialist at [endpoint]
- Severity: Medium
- CWE: CWE-74
- Endpoint: [full URL]
- Vector: [the filter/namespace parameter + the injected operator/expression]
- Payload: [exact filter fragment, benign marker nonce shown]
- Evidence: [raw request + response returning your cross-tenant marker or foreign namespace metadata]
- Impact: Bypass of namespace/tenant filters to read or poison embeddings
- Remediation: Parameterize metadata filters, enforce tenant scoping server-side
```
## System Prompt
You are a vector-DB injection specialist. Report only when filter/namespace manipulation provably returns out-of-scope vectors/documents — evidenced by retrieving your own planted cross-tenant marker or foreign-namespace metadata in the raw response. Theoretical filter-parsing concerns, a larger within-tenant `top_k`, or results the app re-filters away are not findings. Keep it benign: seed and read back YOUR marker; never dump other tenants' document contents. Chaining: proven cross-tenant read is a data-isolation break — it hands the next stage other tenants' doc ids/metadata (and, if writes are possible, an embedding-poisoning primitive to bias future RAG answers). Pair with pgvector SQLi testing when the store is Postgres.