creating-security-bulletins

creating-security-bulletins is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from apache/struts. It costs 66 tokens per session (5,354 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process for writing Apache Struts security bulletins that tell operators what to upgrade and why without exposing unnecessary exploit details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing, reviewing, updating, and publishing S2 security bulletins and their announcements.
Why use it?
It keeps vulnerability announcements accurate, traceable to reviewed sources, and safer to publish.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Apache Struts is an open-source Java web framework that helps developers build applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern, separating data and business logic from page presentation and request handling. Java developers use it to create dynamic web applications with interactive forms and database-backed behavior. The catalogue's skills, instructions, and setting support work with Struts projects.

apache/struts · 1,366 stars · on GitHub · struts.apache.org

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apache/struts/creating-security-bulletins
Any agent
npx skills add apache/struts --skill creating-security-bulletins
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/struts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,354 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00066 $0.05354
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.02677
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00535

Measured yesterday against content hash 6ff5b1ea412d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-security-bulletins scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Unrestricted tool accesslowExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

| **Critical** | A remote attacker can get Struts to execute arbitrary code — exploitable automatically, regardless of whether the developer followed the Security Guide |

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

.claude/skills/creating-security-bulletins/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Security Bulletins

Overview

An S2-XXX bulletin exists to tell an operator what to upgrade and why — not to explain the defect. Every sentence that helps a defender must be weighed against how much it helps someone building an exploit.

Core principle: every field is either traced to source you read this session, or a visible placeholder. Never a plausible guess.

Process authority: SECURITY.md governs disclosure. This skill governs what the page says and how it is written.

REQUIRED BACKGROUND: the claims you put in a bulletin come from triage. Use triaging-security-reports to establish them before writing.

The Iron Rule

NO FIELD IN A BULLETIN WITHOUT A SOURCE YOU READ THIS SESSION,
OR A VISIBLE PLACEHOLDER.

Applies to the severity rating, the affected versions, and above all the Workaround. "There is no workaround" is a factual claim about absence — the hardest kind to get right, and the most common thing to assert without checking.

Page structure

Sections in order, matching the existing published bulletins:

Summary (in an excerpt macro) → field table → ProblemSolutionBackward compatibilityWorkaround

Field table rows, in order:

Row Content
Who should read this Usually All Struts 2 developers and users; narrow it only when exposure is genuinely conditional
Impact of vulnerability A short impact phrase, not a paragraph — Remote Code Execution, Denial of service, Disclosure of Data, Denial of Service, Server Side Request Forgery. Hedging is accepted where warranted (Possible Remote Code Execution vulnerability)
Maximum security rating Low / Moderate / Important / Critical — see the rating scale below
Recommendation Upgrade to Struts X.Y.Z at least. Name every maintenance line that carries the fix (Upgrade to Struts 6.8.0 or 7.1.1 at least), and add the required action where upgrading alone is not enough (… and use Action File Upload Interceptor)
Affected Software Officially released versions only (see below); bullet one range per maintenance line, linking the EOL announcement for end-of-life ranges
Reporters Credit the reporter — they earned it, and it costs nothing. Include their organisation where they gave one (Steven Seeley of Source Incite); obfuscate any email (pwntester at github dot com)
CVE Identifier Placeholder until assigned (see below)

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 301 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 6ff5b1ea412d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creating-security-bulletins is a skill published in the GitHub repository apache/struts (1,366 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 5,354 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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