ssrf

ssrf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PurpleAILAB/Decepticon. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,447 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A security-testing playbook for finding server-side request forgery, where an attacker makes a server send requests to unintended internet or internal addresses.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for tracing user-controlled URLs through HTTP clients and checking whether they can reach internal systems or cloud credentials.
Why use it?
It helps expose routes to cloud metadata, internal administration panels, and services that are not publicly reachable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for tracing user-controlled URLs through HTTP clients and checking whether they can reach internal systems or cloud credentials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/purpleailab/decepticon/ssrf
About the project

Decepticon is an autonomous red-team agent that coordinates AI agents, security tools, sandboxes, and supporting services for authorized cybersecurity assessments. Security researchers and red teams can run it through its Docker stack, cloud service, command-line interface, or Python SDK, with the catalogue entries representing its available skills.

PurpleAILAB/Decepticon · 5,471 stars · on GitHub · decepticon.red

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 PurpleAILAB/Decepticon --skill ssrf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PurpleAILAB/Decepticon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 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 C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 7 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 39
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 41
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 54
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 55
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 78
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 80
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
  • high Server-Side Request Forgery · line 40
    Code accesses a cloud instance metadata endpoint (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A single request can return temporary IAM credentials, making this a high-value SSRF target for credential theft.
    Fix: Remove access to cloud metadata endpoints unless strictly required. If metadata is needed, restrict it (e.g. IMDSv2 with hop limit) and never expose returned credentials.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.01447
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00145

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3d0430d4a48e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ssrf scanned grade C 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 7d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

| `http://169.254.169.254/` (AWS IMDS) | IAM role creds → full AWS takeover |

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- Python: `requests.get(user_url)`, `httpx.get`, `urllib.request.urlopen`, `aiohttp.get`
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/analyst/ssrf/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SSRF Hunting Playbook

SSRF is one of the highest-yield vuln classes for 0-day work because (a) it's often medium severity in isolation but chains to critical when it reaches cloud metadata, internal admin panels, or unprotected Redis/Elasticsearch, and (b) modern frameworks have dozens of bypass classes that scanners miss.

1. Sources (user-controlled input that becomes a URL)

Look for any parameter that gets fed into an HTTP client:

  • Python: requests.get(user_url), httpx.get, urllib.request.urlopen, aiohttp.get
  • Node: fetch(userUrl), axios.get, http.request, got, node-fetch
  • Java: HttpURLConnection, HttpClient.send, URL.openConnection, OkHttpClient
  • Go: http.Get(u), http.NewRequest, net.Dial("tcp", u)
  • Ruby: Net::HTTP.get, URI.open, Faraday.get
  • PHP: file_get_contents($url), curl_exec, fsockopen

Grep patterns to run via bash:

semgrep --config p/ssrf /workspace/src --sarif -o /workspace/sem-ssrf.sarif
grep -rE 'requests\.get\(|httpx\.|urllib.*urlopen|fetch\(|axios\.|http\.Get\(|URL\(' /workspace/src

2. Sinks that make SSRF worth reporting

Sink Impact
http://169.254.169.254/ (AWS IMDS) IAM role creds → full AWS takeover
http://metadata.google.internal/ GCP service-account token
http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/ Azure IMDS
http://127.0.0.1:6379/ (Redis) Unauthenticated RCE via Lua eval / cron
http://127.0.0.1:9200/ Elasticsearch data leak + RCE
http://127.0.0.1:2375/ Docker daemon — container escape
gopher://, dict://, file:// Protocol smuggling (SMTP, memcached)
Internal *.svc.cluster.local Kubernetes service mesh lateral

3. Bypass classes (why scanners miss real bugs)

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 7d ago First seen · 109 lines · 63 tokens per session scan C 3d0430d4a48e

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ssrf is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,471 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,447 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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