Security Audit

Security auditing skill that analyzes code like a pentester, identifies vulnerabilities and suggests remediations.

🎯 When to Activate

Activate when user asks:

• “Analyze the security of…”
• “How would you attack this endpoint?”
• “Do a security audit”
• “Pentester mode”
• “Find vulnerabilities in…”
• “OWASP check”

🔍 Analysis Mode

Approach

Think like an attacker:

1. Reconnaissance – What’s exposed? What info leaks?
2. Attack Vectors – How can I exploit this?
3. Impact – What can I achieve if I exploit?
4. Remediation – How to fix?

Expected Output

For each vulnerability found:

### 🚨 [SEVERITY] Vulnerability Title

**Location:** `file.py:line` or `endpoint`

**What I found:**
Problem description.

**How I would attack:**
Concrete exploitation steps.

**Impact:**
What an attacker can achieve.

**Remediation:**
How to fix, with code example.

📋 Analysis Checklist

1. Authentication & Sessions

• Passwords stored with secure hash (bcrypt/argon2)?
• JWT tokens with short expiration?
• Refresh tokens implemented correctly?
• Brute force protection (rate limiting)?
• Session fixation prevented?
• Logout invalidates server-side session?

2. Authorization

• Permission checks on ALL endpoints?
• IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) prevented?
• Privilege escalation prevented?
• Consistent role-based access control?

3. Injection

• SQL Injection – parameterized queries?
• NoSQL Injection prevented?
• Command Injection – inputs sanitized?
• LDAP Injection prevented?
• XPath Injection prevented?

4. XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

• Output encoding on all dynamic data?
• Content-Security-Policy header?
• React/Vue auto-escaping working?
• dangerouslySetInnerHTML avoided or sanitized?

5. CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

• CSRF tokens in forms?
• SameSite cookies?
• Origin/Referer verification?

6. Sensitive Data

• HTTPS enforced?
• Sensitive data in logs?
• Hardcoded credentials in code?
• Secrets in environment variables?
• .env in .gitignore?

7. Security Headers

• X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
• X-Frame-Options: DENY/SAMEORIGIN
• Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS)
• Content-Security-Policy
• X-XSS-Protection (legacy browsers)

8. API Security

• Rate limiting implemented?
• Input validation on all endpoints?
• Error messages don’t reveal internal info?
• API versioning?
• CORS configured restrictively?

9. File Upload

• File type validation (not just extension)?
• Max size defined?
• Files stored outside webroot?
• Filenames sanitized?
• Antivirus scan?

10. Dependencies

• Dependencies updated?
• Known vulnerabilities (npm audit, pip-audit)?
• Lock files committed?

🎯 OWASP Top 10 (2021)

A01: Broken Access Control

Check:

• Authentication bypass
• Access to other users’ resources
• Privilege escalation
• Metadata manipulation (JWT, cookies)

A02: Cryptographic Failures

Check:

• Sensitive data in plaintext
• Weak algorithms (MD5, SHA1 for passwords)
• Hardcoded keys
• Transmission without TLS

A03: Injection

Check:

• SQLi, NoSQLi, Command Injection
• XSS, LDAP Injection
• Dynamic queries without parameterization

A04: Insecure Design

Check:

• Missing rate limiting
• Business logic flaws
• Missing server-side validation

A05: Security Misconfiguration

Check:

• Missing headers
• Debug mode in production
• Insecure defaults
• Excessive permissions

A06: Vulnerable Components

Check:

• Outdated dependencies
• Known CVEs
• Abandoned libraries

A07: Auth Failures

Check:

• Credential stuffing possible
• Weak password policy
• Insecure session management

A08: Software & Data Integrity

Check:

• Insecure CI/CD
• Auto-update without verification
• Insecure deserialization

A09: Logging & Monitoring

Check:

• Security events not logged
• Insufficient logs
• Alerts not configured

A10: SSRF

Check:

• User-controlled URLs
• Internal requests exposed
• Metadata services accessible

🔧 Analysis Commands

Python

# Dependency vulnerabilities
pip-audit

# Static analysis
bandit -r .

# Secrets in code
trufflehog .

JavaScript/Node

# Dependency vulnerabilities
npm audit
pnpm audit

# Secrets
npx secretlint .

General

# Secrets in git history
gitleaks detect

# General scan
trivy fs .

📊 Severity Levels

💡 Report Format

When user asks for complete audit:

# 🔒 Security Audit Report

**Project:** [Name]
**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Scope:** [What was analyzed]

## Executive Summary

| Severity | Count |
|----------|-------|
| 🔴 Critical | X |
| 🟠 High | X |
| 🟡 Medium | X |
| 🟢 Low | X |

## Vulnerabilities Found

### 🔴 CRITICAL: [Title]
[Details per template above]

### 🟠 HIGH: [Title]
[...]

## Priority Recommendations

1. [Immediate action 1]
2. [Immediate action 2]
3. [Short-term action]

## Remediation Checklist

- [ ] Critical fix 1
- [ ] Critical fix 2
- [ ] ...

🚫 Limitations

This skill DOES NOT replace a professional pentest. It serves as:

• ✅ Identify obvious vulnerabilities
• ✅ Security code review
• ✅ Attack education
• ✅ Best practices checklist

DOES NOT:

• ❌ Real penetration testing
• ❌ Automated fuzzing
• ❌ Infrastructure scanning
• ❌ Total security guarantee