jackson-injection-security

jackson-injection-security is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench. It costs 30 tokens per session (620 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security guide for Jackson, a Java library that converts JSON to and from objects. It explains how JSON input can improperly override server-injected configuration values.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Jackson constructors and stop JSON from overriding injected values with the wrong settings.
Why use it?
It prevents untrusted request data from replacing security settings supplied by the application.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review Jackson constructors and stop JSON from overriding injected…

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npx agentmods add skills/cxcscmu/skilllearnbench/jackson-injection-security
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench --skill jackson-injection-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 620 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00030 $0.00620
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00310
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 3d ago against content hash d0aa5784618b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jackson-injection-security scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 3d ago.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/b1-one-shot-claude-sonnet-4-6/fix-security-bug/jackson-injection-security/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jackson @JacksonInject Security

The Vulnerability Pattern

When a @JsonCreator constructor uses @JacksonInject without useInput = OptBoolean.FALSE, Jackson can fall back to JSON input to provide the injectable value. This is exploitable when:

  1. The injectable ID (default: empty string "") matches a JSON property key
  2. The JSON property contains a deserializable value of the expected type
  3. This overrides the server-configured injected value (e.g., security settings)

Example Vulnerable Code

@JsonCreator
public SomeFilter(
    @JsonProperty("dimension") String dimension,
    @JacksonInject SecurityConfig config  // VULNERABLE: can be overridden via JSON ""
)

Exploit Pattern

{
  "dimension": "value",
  "": {"securityEnabled": false}  // Empty key "" overrides @JacksonInject default id
}

The Fix

Option 1: useInput = OptBoolean.FALSE (Recommended for Jackson 2.9+)

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.OptBoolean;

@JsonCreator
public SomeFilter(
    @JsonProperty("dimension") String dimension,
    @JacksonInject(useInput = OptBoolean.FALSE) SecurityConfig config  // FIXED
)

This tells Jackson: NEVER use JSON to provide this value, ALWAYS use InjectableValues only.

Option 2: Explicit Injectable ID (prevents empty string match)

@JacksonInject("securityConfig")  // Named ID that won't match "" key
SecurityConfig config

Option 3: Server-side validation before processing

// Validate BEFORE Jackson deserialization or AFTER using Guice-injected config
@Inject
public MyService(SecurityConfig trustedConfig) {
    this.trustedConfig = trustedConfig;  // From Guice, not from Jackson
}

@JacksonInject Behavior Summary

useInput value Behavior
OptBoolean.DEFAULT Use InjectableValues if present; may fall back to JSON
OptBoolean.TRUE JSON input takes precedence over InjectableValues
OptBoolean.FALSE ONLY use InjectableValues; NEVER read from JSON

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 81 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A d0aa5784618b

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jackson-injection-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench (83 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 620 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.