agent-threat-rules 3.5.7 → 3.5.8

package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-02101-dynamic-dunder-attribute-sandbox-escape.yaml

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+title: "Python Sandbox Escape via Dynamically-Constructed Dunder Attribute Chain"
+id: ATR-2026-02101
+rule_version: 1
+status: experimental
+description: >
+  Detects a code-execution-tool payload that builds a blocked dunder/private
+  attribute name at runtime (via chr()/ord() character codes or string
+  concatenation of underscore fragments) and then feeds it into an
+  attribute-resolution primitive -- getattr(), str.format()/format_map()
+  field access, or a __subclasses__()/__mro__ introspection walk -- to reach
+  a real Python object outside a blocklist-based sandbox. This is the
+  structural technique behind two related PraisonAI sandbox-escape
+  disclosures: GHSA-6vh2-h83c-9294 (a str subclass overriding startswith()
+  so isinstance-based dunder checks pass, then walking __mro__/
+  __subclasses__ via names assembled at runtime) and GHSA-pv2j-rghr-v5r9
+  (str.format()'s C-level attribute resolution bypasses the sandbox's
+  Python-level getattr() wrapper entirely, and the dunder name fed to it is
+  built from runtime string concatenation so no blocklisted substring ever
+  appears in the source). Both bypasses exist specifically because the
+  target sandbox's AST/text-based blocklist checks for literal dunder
+  substrings (`__class__`, `__mro__`, `__subclasses__`, ...) in the source
+  text -- exactly the same class of check ATR's own pattern engine performs,
+  so a payload built this way defeats naive keyword-matching by
+  construction. Verified against the current engine: a literal-keyword
+  variant of this PoC is caught by the existing generic dunder-token rule
+  (ATR-2026-00062), but a chr()-encoded / concatenation-built variant with no
+  literal dunder substring anywhere in the payload text produces no match
+  before this rule.
+author: "ATR Community (CVE sweep)"
+date: "2026/07/11"
+schema_version: "0.1"
+detection_tier: pattern
+maturity: experimental
+severity: critical
+
+references:
+  owasp_llm:
+    - "LLM08:2025 - Excessive Agency"
+  owasp_agentic:
+    - "ASI05:2026 - Unexpected Code Execution"
+  mitre_attack:
+    - "T1059.006 - Command and Scripting Interpreter: Python"
+  mitre_atlas:
+    - "AML.T0053 - LLM Plugin Compromise"
+
+metadata_provenance:
+  owasp_llm: human-reviewed
+  owasp_agentic: human-reviewed
+  mitre_attack: human-reviewed
+  mitre_atlas: human-reviewed
+
+compliance:
+  eu_ai_act:
+    - article: "15"
+      context: "Article 15 (accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity) requires high-risk AI systems to resist unauthorised attempts to alter their behaviour or environment; this rule detects code payloads that construct blocked attribute names at runtime specifically to evade a sandbox's literal-keyword blocklist."
+      strength: primary
+    - article: "9"
+      context: "Article 9 (risk management system) requires identified risks to be addressed by appropriate measures; this rule is a runtime risk-treatment control for the obfuscated-sandbox-escape risk class."
+      strength: secondary
+  nist_ai_rmf:
+    - subcategory: "MG.2.3"
+      context: "Treating dynamically-constructed dunder-attribute sandbox escapes as an identified AI risk requires active runtime countermeasures; this detection rule is the primary risk treatment implementation."
+      strength: primary
+    - subcategory: "MP.5.1"
+      context: "Identifying the runtime-attribute-name-construction bypass idiom as an AI risk to be catalogued in the organizational risk register."
+      strength: secondary
+  iso_42001:
+    - clause: "8.1"
+      context: "ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.1 (operational planning and control) is operationalised by this rule's detection of obfuscated sandbox-escape code payloads reaching an execute-code tool."
+      strength: primary
+    - clause: "8.3"
+      context: "ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.3 (AI risk treatment) is implemented via this rule's runtime detection of the introspection-chain bypass attempt."
+      strength: secondary
+
+tags:
+  category: privilege-escalation
+  subcategory: sandbox-escape
+  scan_target: llm_io
+  confidence: high
+
+agent_source:
+  type: llm_io
+  framework:
+    - any
+  provider:
+    - any
+
+detection:
+  condition: any
+  conditions:
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '(?:chr\(\s*\d{2,3}\s*\)\s*\+?\s*){4,}'
+      description: "Four or more chr(N) character-code fragments concatenated -- runtime string assembly that avoids any literal blocklisted substring in source text"
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '\bgetattr\s*\([^,]{1,40},\s*(?:chr\(|[\x27"]_[\x27"]\s*\*\s*2|[\x27"]_[\x27"]\s*\+\s*[\x27"]_[\x27"])'
+      description: "getattr() called with a dynamically-built (chr()-encoded or underscore-multiplied/concatenated) attribute name rather than a literal string"
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '\{0\.[\s\S]{0,20}\}[\s\S]{0,20}\.format(?:_map)?\s*\('
+      description: "str.format()/format_map() field-access template (`{0.attr}`) used as an attribute-resolution primitive -- bypasses getattr()-wrapper-based sandboxes via CPython's C-level attribute lookup"
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '\bstartswith\s*=\s*lambda\s+self[^:]{0,20}:\s*False\b'
+      description: "A class attribute overriding startswith() to always return False -- defeats isinstance()/str.startswith()-based dunder-name filters on a str subclass"
+  false_positives:
+    - "Legitimate use of chr()/ord() in string-processing or Caesar-cipher/obfuscation-teaching code that never feeds the result into getattr(), format(), or an attribute-resolution primitive"
+    - "Test code exercising str.format() with ordinary positional/keyword field access (e.g. '{0}', '{name}') that does not reference a dotted attribute path"
+    - "Security-research or CTF write-ups that quote this exact bypass technique as prose/documentation rather than a submitted tool argument"
+
+response:
+  actions:
+    - block_tool
+    - alert
+    - escalate
+
+confidence: 85
+wild_fp_rate: 0
+
+test_cases:
+  true_positives:
+    - input: "code: b = print.__self__\nd = b.vars(b)\nk = chr(95)+chr(95)+chr(105)+chr(109)+chr(112)+chr(111)+chr(114)+chr(116)+chr(95)+chr(95)\nimp = d[k]"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "GHSA-4mr5/6vh2-style runtime chr()-encoded dunder name construction (4+ chr() fragments concatenated)"
+    - input: "t = type\nFakeStr = t('FakeStr', (str,), {'startswith': lambda self, *a: False})\nmro_attr = getattr(obj, chr(95)+chr(95)+chr(109)+chr(114)+chr(111)+chr(95)+chr(95))"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "GHSA-6vh2-h83c-9294 pattern - str subclass overriding startswith() combined with getattr() fed a chr()-encoded attribute name"
+    - input: "key1 = chr(95)*2 + chr(99)+chr(108)+chr(97)+chr(115)+chr(115) + chr(95)*2\nfmt = \"{0.\" + key1 + \"}\"\nprint(fmt.format(()))"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "GHSA-pv2j-rghr-v5r9 pattern - str.format() field-access attribute leak fed a runtime-constructed dunder name"
+    - input: "class FakeStr(str):\n    startswith = lambda self, *a: False\nresult = isinstance(FakeStr('_x'), str)"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "str subclass startswith-override guard-bypass primitive on its own"
+  true_negatives:
+    - input: "def caesar_decode(s): return ''.join(chr((ord(c) - 65 + 13) % 26 + 65) for c in s)"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Legitimate chr()/ord() use in a Caesar cipher helper, not feeding getattr/format"
+    - input: "greeting = '{0} {1}'.format('hello', 'world')"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Ordinary str.format() with plain positional fields, no dotted attribute access"
+    - input: "value = getattr(config, 'timeout', 30)"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Normal getattr() call with a literal, non-obfuscated attribute name"
+    - input: "This CVE writeup explains how attackers can theoretically use chr() codes to build dunder names, but no code is being executed here."
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Prose discussion of the technique, no chr() fragments or getattr/format primitive actually present"

package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-02123-bare-query-path-confusion-auth-bypass.yaml

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+title: "Authentication Bypass via Bare Query-String Path-Confusion Suffix"
+id: ATR-2026-02123
+rule_version: 1
+status: experimental
+description: >
+  Detects a URL/request argument where a sensitive-looking path (containing
+  apikey, admin, credentials, secrets, or auth) is immediately followed by a
+  bare "?/" -- a query string with no key= before the slash -- and then
+  another path segment. This malformed-looking query string is the concrete
+  shape of a route-matching confusion bug: some reverse-proxy or middleware
+  auth allowlists match on the SUFFIX of the URL rather than re-parsing it as
+  path + query, so appending a known-public path as a bogus query value lets
+  the request sail past the auth check while the backend still routes to the
+  protected handler. Mined from CVE-2024-8181 (Flowise <= 1.8.2 authentication
+  bypass, PoC: `GET /api/v1/apikey?/api/v1/ping`, where the always-public
+  `/api/v1/ping` suffix tricks the auth gate into treating the whole request
+  as unauthenticated-OK while the app still serves the protected `/api/v1/apikey`
+  response body). Generalized beyond that one app/endpoint pair since the bare
+  "?/" syntax is itself the reusable attack primitive, not the specific paths.
+  A normal query string is virtually never key-less immediately after "?", so
+  this stays precision-safe without needing to allowlist the specific product.
+author: "ATR Community (CVE sweep)"
+date: "2026/07/11"
+schema_version: "0.1"
+detection_tier: pattern
+maturity: experimental
+severity: high
+
+references:
+  cve:
+    - "CVE-2024-8181"
+  cwe:
+    - "CWE-863"
+  owasp_llm:
+    - "LLM02:2025 - Sensitive Information Disclosure"
+  owasp_agentic:
+    - "ASI02:2026 - Tool Misuse and Exploitation"
+  mitre_attack:
+    - "T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application"
+  mitre_atlas:
+    - "AML.T0053 - LLM Plugin Compromise"
+  external:
+    - "https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-8181.yaml"
+    - "https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2024-33"
+
+metadata_provenance:
+  cve: human-reviewed
+  cwe: human-reviewed
+  owasp_llm: human-reviewed
+  owasp_agentic: human-reviewed
+  mitre_attack: human-reviewed
+  mitre_atlas: human-reviewed
+
+compliance:
+  eu_ai_act:
+    - article: "15"
+      context: "Article 15 (accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity) requires resistance to unauthorised access; this rule detects the bare query-string path-confusion primitive used to smuggle a protected-endpoint request past an auth allowlist."
+      strength: primary
+    - article: "9"
+      context: "Article 9 (risk management system) requires identified risks to be addressed by appropriate measures; this rule is a runtime risk-treatment control for the route-confusion auth-bypass risk class."
+      strength: secondary
+  nist_ai_rmf:
+    - subcategory: "MG.2.3"
+      context: "Treating the bare query-string path-confusion primitive as an identified AI risk requires active runtime countermeasures; this detection rule is the primary risk treatment implementation."
+      strength: primary
+    - subcategory: "MP.5.1"
+      context: "Identifying the path-confusion auth-bypass primitive as an AI risk to be catalogued in the organizational risk register."
+      strength: secondary
+  iso_42001:
+    - clause: "8.1"
+      context: "ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.1 (operational planning and control) is operationalised by this rule's detection of the path-confusion auth-bypass attempt."
+      strength: primary
+    - clause: "8.3"
+      context: "ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.3 (AI risk treatment) is implemented via this rule's runtime detection of the attempt."
+      strength: secondary
+
+tags:
+  category: privilege-escalation
+  subcategory: path-confusion-auth-bypass
+  scan_target: mcp
+  confidence: high
+
+agent_source:
+  type: llm_io
+  framework:
+    - any
+  provider:
+    - any
+
+detection:
+  condition: any
+  conditions:
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '(?i)\b(?:GET|POST|PUT|DELETE|PATCH)\s+/[\w.\-/]{0,40}(?:api(?:key|_key)?|admin|credentials?|secrets?|auth)\b[\w.\-/]{0,20}(?<!index\.php)\?/[\w.\-/]{1,80}'
+      description: "HTTP request line where a SENSITIVE-looking path (apikey/admin/credentials/secrets/auth) is followed by a bare (key-less) query-string slash suffix; excludes the CodeIgniter/Kohana index.php?/ default routing idiom"
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '(?i)/(?:api(?:key|_key)?|admin|credentials?|secrets?|auth)\b[\w.\-/]{0,15}(?<!index\.php)\?/[\w.\-/]{2,60}'
+      description: "Sensitive-looking path immediately followed by a bare query-string slash suffix, without an HTTP method prefix (e.g. a URL passed as a tool argument); excludes the CodeIgniter/Kohana index.php?/ default routing idiom"
+  false_positives:
+    - "Legacy hash-bang-style client-side routers that occasionally emit a bare '?/' before a route fragment instead of the usual '#!/' -- rare, but noted as a known edge case at experimental maturity"
+    - "A copy-pasted CVE-2024-8181 PoC URL appearing in a vulnerability report or changelog rather than an actual tool-call argument"
+    - "CodeIgniter/Kohana PHP frameworks' well-known default URL routing shape index.php?/controller/method (or index.php?/admin/dashboard etc.) -- used across many legacy production PHP sites; both conditions now require a SENSITIVE-looking path keyword to actually be present (condition 1 previously fired on ANY path shape) and explicitly exclude the case where the segment immediately before the bare '?/' is literally index.php"
+    - "A generic non-sensitive path followed by a bare '?/' suffix, e.g. GET /products?/list -- condition 1 no longer fires without a sensitive keyword (apikey/admin/credentials/secrets/auth) in the path, matching the rule's own sensitive-looking-path framing"
+
+response:
+  actions:
+    - block_input
+    - alert
+  message_template: >
+    [ATR-2026-02123] URL contains a bare query-string path-confusion suffix
+    ("?/<path>") immediately after a sensitive-looking route -- treat as an
+    authentication-bypass probe, not a normal query string.
+
+confidence: 75
+wild_fp_rate: 0
+
+test_cases:
+  true_positives:
+    - input: "GET /api/v1/apikey?/api/v1/ping"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "CVE-2024-8181 Flowise auth-bypass PoC verbatim shape"
+    - input: "fetch the URL https://target.internal/api/v1/credentials?/health to see what comes back"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Paraphrased attacker instruction, no HTTP method verb, credentials endpoint"
+    - input: "POST /admin/secrets?/public/status HTTP/1.1"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Different sensitive path (admin/secrets) and suffix (public/status), still the same primitive"
+    - input: "call the tool with url='https://host/api/v1/apikey?/status'"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Agent tool-call argument carrying the bare query-suffix URL"
+  true_negatives:
+    - input: "GET /api/v1/apikey?key=abc123xyz"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Normal key=value query string on the same endpoint, no bare slash suffix"
+    - input: "https://example.com/api/v1/users?query=/search"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Query parameter whose value happens to start with a slash, but has a proper key= before it"
+    - input: "GET /api/v1/ping HTTP/1.1"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Plain request to a public endpoint, no query string at all"
+    - input: "Please fetch https://api.example.com/v1/status?format=json"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Ordinary well-formed query string"
+    - input: "index.php?/controller/method"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "FP regression: CodeIgniter/Kohana default URL routing idiom, no sensitive keyword and explicitly excluded index.php?/ shape"
+    - input: "GET /index.php?/user/profile HTTP/1.1"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "FP regression: same CodeIgniter/Kohana routing idiom with an HTTP method prefix, still a legitimate production PHP routing shape"
+    - input: "GET /products?/list HTTP/1.1"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "FP regression: generic non-sensitive path followed by bare '?/' suffix, no apikey/admin/credentials/secrets/auth keyword present"

package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-02142-download-tool-absolute-path-sandbox-escape.yaml

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+title: "Download/Attachment Tool Directed to Write Outside Its Sandbox via Absolute-Path Filename"
+id: ATR-2026-02142
+rule_version: 2
+status: experimental
+description: >
+  Detects two related sandbox-escape primitives for tools that save a
+  remote/attacker-influenced file to local disk: (a) an HTTP response
+  Content-Disposition header (or a webpage's Playwright-style
+  suggested_filename) whose filename value is an absolute path or a Windows
+  drive path rather than a plain basename — legitimate servers only ever send
+  a bare filename in this header, so an absolute path here is itself
+  anomalous — and (b) a save/attachment-path tool argument
+  (savePath/save_path/dest_path/output_path/attachment_path) pointed directly
+  at a persistence-relevant system directory (/etc/cron.d and friends,
+  /etc/systemd/system, ~/Library/LaunchAgents, ~/.config/autostart) rather
+  than the tool's intended download directory. Mined from
+  GHSA-2jq4-q6vv-4cp3 (CVE-2026-57571, crawl4ai's HTTP and Playwright
+  download sinks joined an attacker-controlled Content-Disposition filename
+  or suggested_filename directly onto the downloads path with no absolute-path
+  or symlink check, enabling overwrite of "shell configuration files, SSH
+  keys, cron jobs, or Python modules") and the mcp-google-workspace Gmail
+  attachment path-traversal fix (CVE-2026-10277, j3k0/mcp-google-workspace
+  commit 89c091e: "Absolute paths and any non-traversal escape were accepted,
+  allowing a tool caller (e.g. via prompt injection) to write attacker-controlled
+  bytes to arbitrary files"). Deliberately distinct from ATR-2026-00569
+  (which requires a chained "../" traversal sequence) since these two bugs are
+  specifically about a bare absolute path with no traversal needed, and from
+  ATR-2026-02040 (file-edit-tool persistence writes) since the vector here is
+  a download/attachment tool's destination-path argument, not a file-editor.
+author: "ATR Community (CVE sweep)"
+date: "2026/07/11"
+schema_version: "0.1"
+detection_tier: pattern
+maturity: experimental
+severity: high
+
+references:
+  owasp_llm:
+    - "LLM08:2025 - Excessive Agency"
+  owasp_agentic:
+    - "ASI02:2026 - Tool Misuse and Exploitation"
+  mitre_attack:
+    - "T1083 - File and Directory Discovery"
+    - "T1547 - Boot or Logon Autostart Execution"
+  mitre_atlas:
+    - "AML.T0053 - LLM Plugin Compromise"
+  cve:
+    - "CVE-2026-57571"
+    - "CVE-2026-10277"
+  external:
+    - "https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai/security/advisories/GHSA-2jq4-q6vv-4cp3"
+    - "https://github.com/j3k0/mcp-google-workspace/commit/89c091ecf8b9f9c7291d1af0b1966e271f86551c"
+
+metadata_provenance:
+  owasp_llm: human-reviewed
+  owasp_agentic: human-reviewed
+  mitre_attack: human-reviewed
+  mitre_atlas: human-reviewed
+  cve: nvd-sync
+
+compliance:
+  eu_ai_act:
+    - article: "15"
+      context: "Article 15 (accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity) requires high-risk AI systems to resist unauthorised attempts to alter their behaviour or environment; this rule detects a download/attachment tool being redirected via an absolute-path filename to write outside its intended sandbox directory."
+      strength: primary
+    - article: "9"
+      context: "Article 9 (risk management system) requires identified risks to be addressed by appropriate measures; this rule is a runtime risk-treatment control for the absolute-path download-sandbox-escape risk class."
+      strength: secondary
+  nist_ai_rmf:
+    - subcategory: "MG.2.3"
+      context: "Treating absolute-path download/attachment writes as an identified AI risk requires active runtime countermeasures; this detection rule is the primary risk treatment implementation."
+      strength: primary
+    - subcategory: "MP.5.1"
+      context: "Identifying the absolute-path download-sandbox-escape technique as an AI risk to be catalogued in the organizational risk register."
+      strength: secondary
+  iso_42001:
+    - clause: "8.1"
+      context: "ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.1 (operational planning and control) is operationalised by this rule's detection of absolute-path download/attachment writes."
+      strength: primary
+    - clause: "8.3"
+      context: "ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.3 (AI risk treatment) is implemented via this rule's runtime detection of the escape attempt."
+      strength: secondary
+
+tags:
+  category: privilege-escalation
+  subcategory: download-tool-absolute-path-escape
+  scan_target: both
+  confidence: high
+
+agent_source:
+  type: llm_io
+  framework:
+    - any
+  provider:
+    - any
+
+detection:
+  condition: any
+  conditions:
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '(?i)(?:content-disposition\s*:\s*attachment;\s*filename\s*=|suggested_filename["\x27]?\s*[:=])\s*["\x27]?(?:/|[A-Za-z]:\\|\\\\)(?!(?:[^\s"\x27\\/]{1,40}[\\/]){0,6}(?:Downloads|Documents|Desktop|Pictures|Music|Videos|Movies)(?:[\\/]|$))[^\s"\x27]{1,80}'
+      description: "Content-Disposition or suggested_filename value is an absolute path/drive path rather than a bare filename, AND does not resolve into the user's own Downloads/Documents-style directory — v2 tightened; a path landing in an ordinary Downloads/Documents/Desktop folder no longer fires, matching the destination-allowlist logic condition 2 already used"
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '(?i)\b(?:savePath|save_path|dest(?:ination)?_path|output_path|attachment_?path)\b["\x27]?\s*[:=]\s*["\x27]?(?:~|\$HOME)?/?(?:etc/cron\.(?:d|daily|hourly|weekly)|etc/systemd/system|Library/LaunchAgents|\.config/autostart)/'
+      description: "Attachment/download save-path tool argument pointed at a persistence-relevant system directory"
+  false_positives:
+    - "Content-Disposition filenames that are plain basenames with no path separator (the overwhelming majority of legitimate responses)"
+    - "A save-path argument pointed at the tool's own configured downloads/attachments directory, even if that directory happens to be an absolute path under the user's home folder (Downloads, Documents, a project workspace) — this rule only fires on the specific system-persistence directories listed"
+    - "A Content-Disposition or suggested_filename absolute/drive path that resolves into an ordinary Downloads/Documents/Desktop/Pictures/Music/Videos-style user folder (e.g. C:\\Users\\<name>\\Downloads\\invoice.pdf) — v2 excludes these via the same destination-allowlist logic condition 2 uses, since this is the tool's normal download target, not a sandbox escape"
+
+response:
+  actions:
+    - block_input
+    - alert
+  message_template: >
+    [ATR-2026-02142] Download or attachment tool destination resolves to an
+    absolute path outside its sandbox, or targets a system persistence
+    directory directly — treat as an attempted arbitrary file write, not a
+    routine download.
+
+confidence: 78
+wild_fp_rate: 0
+
+test_cases:
+  true_positives:
+    - input: 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="/etc/cron.d/malicious"'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "GHSA-2jq4-q6vv-4cp3 crawl4ai HTTP-crawler absolute-path Content-Disposition write"
+    - input: 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="/etc/passwd"'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Absolute-path Content-Disposition targeting a sensitive system file"
+    - input: 'suggested_filename: "C:\Windows\System32\evil.dll"'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Playwright suggested_filename absolute Windows drive path variant"
+    - input: 'save_gmail_attachment(savePath="/etc/cron.d/evil")'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "mcp-google-workspace-style Gmail attachment save-path pointed at /etc/cron.d"
+    - input: '{"dest_path": "~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.evil.plist"}'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Attachment save-path pointed at macOS LaunchAgents persistence directory"
+    - input: "output_path=/etc/systemd/system/evil.service"
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Attachment save-path pointed at a systemd unit directory"
+  true_negatives:
+    - input: 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="report.pdf"'
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Ordinary bare-filename Content-Disposition header"
+    - input: 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="my-file-2026.csv"'
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Ordinary bare-filename Content-Disposition header with a date-like name"
+    - input: 'savePath="/home/user/Downloads/report.pdf"'
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Save-path pointed at an ordinary Downloads directory"
+    - input: "output_path=/tmp/data.csv"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Save-path pointed at an ordinary temp file, not a system persistence directory"
+    - input: 'suggested_filename: "C:\Users\adam\Downloads\invoice.pdf"'
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "v2 regression — absolute drive-path suggested_filename that resolves into the user's own ordinary Downloads folder must not fire"

package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-02146-export-tool-dest-dir-credential-directory-redirect.yaml

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+title: "Export/Extract Tool Directory Parameter Redirected to a Credential Directory"
+id: ATR-2026-02146
+rule_version: 2
+status: experimental
+description: >
+  Detects an agent/MCP tool call for an export, merge, or extract-type
+  operation (network-capture object export, archive merge, file extraction)
+  whose destination-directory parameter (dest_dir/output_dir/export_dir/
+  extract_dir/save_dir) is set directly to a credential/config directory
+  (~/.ssh, ~/.aws, ~/.gnupg, ~/.docker, ~/.kube) rather than the tool's
+  intended working/output location. Unlike a path-traversal payload, no
+  "../" sequence is needed here — the directory parameter is a legitimate,
+  documented tool argument that is simply pointed at a sensitive location,
+  which lets the export write attacker-named files (e.g. one named
+  "authorized_keys") directly into that directory. Mined from
+  GHSA-3r68-x3xc-rxpg (CVE-2026-43901, Wireshark MCP's
+  wireshark_export_objects and six sibling file-write functions default
+  their path sandbox, _allowed_dirs, to None so it "permits writes to any
+  filesystem location" unless an operator explicitly configures an
+  allowlist env var): "An attacker embeds a crafted HTTP response in a pcap
+  file (e.g. Content-Disposition: filename=authorized_keys). Via prompt
+  injection in the pcap payload, an AI model using this MCP server is
+  manipulated into calling wireshark_export_objects with:
+  dest_dir=/home/user/.ssh/". Generalized beyond Wireshark MCP to any
+  export/merge/extract tool exposing a destination-directory argument.
+author: "ATR Community (CVE sweep)"
+date: "2026/07/11"
+schema_version: "0.1"
+detection_tier: pattern
+maturity: experimental
+severity: critical
+
+references:
+  owasp_llm:
+    - "LLM08:2025 - Excessive Agency"
+  owasp_agentic:
+    - "ASI02:2026 - Tool Misuse and Exploitation"
+  mitre_attack:
+    - "T1552 - Unsecured Credentials"
+    - "T1098.004 - Account Manipulation: SSH Authorized Keys"
+  mitre_atlas:
+    - "AML.T0053 - LLM Plugin Compromise"
+  cve:
+    - "CVE-2026-43901"
+  external:
+    - "https://github.com/bx33661/Wireshark-MCP/security/advisories/GHSA-3r68-x3xc-rxpg"
+
+metadata_provenance:
+  owasp_llm: human-reviewed
+  owasp_agentic: human-reviewed
+  mitre_attack: human-reviewed
+  mitre_atlas: human-reviewed
+  cve: nvd-sync
+
+compliance:
+  eu_ai_act:
+    - article: "15"
+      context: "Article 15 (accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity) requires high-risk AI systems to resist unauthorised attempts to alter their behaviour or environment; this rule detects an export/extract tool's destination-directory argument being redirected into a credential directory to plant attacker-controlled files there."
+      strength: primary
+    - article: "9"
+      context: "Article 9 (risk management system) requires identified risks to be addressed by appropriate measures; this rule is a runtime risk-treatment control for the dest-dir credential-directory-redirect risk class."
+      strength: secondary
+  nist_ai_rmf:
+    - subcategory: "MG.2.3"
+      context: "Treating export-tool dest-dir redirection into a credential directory as an identified AI risk requires active runtime countermeasures; this detection rule is the primary risk treatment implementation."
+      strength: primary
+    - subcategory: "MP.5.1"
+      context: "Identifying the dest-dir credential-directory-redirect technique as an AI risk to be catalogued in the organizational risk register."
+      strength: secondary
+  iso_42001:
+    - clause: "8.1"
+      context: "ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.1 (operational planning and control) is operationalised by this rule's detection of export-tool directory redirection."
+      strength: primary
+    - clause: "8.3"
+      context: "ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 8.3 (AI risk treatment) is implemented via this rule's runtime detection of the redirection attempt."
+      strength: secondary
+
+tags:
+  category: privilege-escalation
+  subcategory: export-tool-dest-dir-redirect
+  scan_target: mcp
+  confidence: high
+
+agent_source:
+  type: llm_io
+  framework:
+    - any
+  provider:
+    - any
+
+detection:
+  condition: any
+  conditions:
+    - field: content
+      operator: regex
+      value: '(?i)\b(?:dest_dir|output_dir|export_dir|extract_dir|save_dir|out_dir)\b["\x27]?\s*[:=]\s*["\x27]?(?:~|\$HOME)?/?(?:home/[^/\s"\x27]+/)?\.(?:ssh|aws|gnupg|docker|kube)\b'
+      description: "Export/extract-tool destination-directory argument set directly to a credential/config directory"
+  false_positives:
+    - "A destination-directory argument pointed at the tool's own configured output/working directory (Downloads, /tmp, a project workspace), even when it is an absolute path — this rule only fires on the specific credential directories listed (.ssh, .aws, .gnupg, .docker, .kube)"
+    - "A legitimate SSH/cloud-credential management skill whose documented purpose is to read or back up its own ~/.ssh or ~/.aws directory — should be reviewed for context since the parameter shape is identical to the attack"
+
+response:
+  actions:
+    - block_input
+    - alert
+  message_template: >
+    [ATR-2026-02146] Export/extract tool's destination-directory argument is
+    set directly to a credential directory (.ssh/.aws/.gnupg/.docker/.kube) —
+    treat as an attempt to plant or overwrite files there, not a routine
+    output-path configuration.
+
+confidence: 80
+wild_fp_rate: 0
+
+test_cases:
+  true_positives:
+    - input: 'wireshark_export_objects(dest_dir="/home/user/.ssh/")'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "GHSA-3r68-x3xc-rxpg disclosed pcap-injection PoC — dest_dir redirected to ~/.ssh"
+    - input: 'wireshark_export_objects(dest_dir="~/.ssh/")'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Tilde-relative variant of the same dest_dir redirection"
+    - input: 'merge_pcap_files(output_dir="/home/user/.aws/")'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "Sibling export-family function redirected to the AWS credentials directory"
+    - input: '{"export_dir": "~/.gnupg/"}'
+      expected: triggered
+      description: "JSON-style tool-args export_dir redirected to the GnuPG directory"
+  true_negatives:
+    - input: 'dest_dir="/home/user/Downloads/"'
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Destination directory pointed at an ordinary Downloads folder"
+    - input: "output_dir=/tmp/pcap_exports/"
+      expected: not_triggered
+      description: "Destination directory pointed at an ordinary temp export folder"