| Title | usestrix strix <= 1.0.2 rce |
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| Description | This is a phishing attack targeting autonomous penetration-testing AI agents. By hosting a booby-trapped web application with a companion PyPI mirror, the attacker induces Strix into executing a malicious pip install — achieving counter-reconnaissance: seizing a reverse shell on the pentester's own machine. The root cause is not the attack technique, but two inherent design defects in Strix: (1) an unrestricted package installation policy in the system prompt, and (2) the absence of safety-boundary propagation in its multi-agent architecture. A contributing behavioral factor is that Strix agents are incentivized to exhaustively probe every discovered endpoint, making them highly likely to trigger traps that a human tester would recognize as suspicious. |
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| Source | ⚠️ https://github.com/ez-lbz/strix-vul-report |
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| User | ez-lbz (UID 87033) |
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| Submission | 06/07/2026 06:20 (1 month ago) |
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| Moderation | 07/12/2026 13:17 (1 month later) |
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| Status | Accepted |
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| VulDB entry | 377848 [usestrix up to 1.0.2 PyPI system_prompt.jinja inclusion of functionality from untrusted control sphere] |
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| Points | 20 |
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