hunting-connection-string-and-jdbc-url-injection

hunting-connection-string-and-jdbc-url-injection is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 166 tokens per session (1,996 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security review guide for database connection strings and driver URLs built from untrusted input. These strings specify where to connect and may also turn on driver features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect dynamic database connections and check which parts of a host, port, tenant, or driver option an attacker can control.
Why use it?
An attacker-controlled host or option can redirect a connection to their server, expose credentials, read local files, or activate unsafe driver behaviour. The risk exists even when the value looks like ordinary configuration.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect dynamic database connections and check which parts of a host, port, tenant, or driver option an attacker can control.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/hunting-connection-string-and-jdbc-url-injection
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill hunting-connection-string-and-jdbc-url-injection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,996 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 $0.00166 $0.01996
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.00998
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00200

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3f67b78a9b0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hunting-connection-string-and-jdbc-url-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 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.

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/hunting-connection-string-and-jdbc-url-injection/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hunting connection-string and JDBC-URL injection: when the connection target is attacker-set

Connection strings and driver URLs look like inert configuration, but they are richly featured: they carry the host to connect to and a set of driver properties, and many drivers expose properties that read local files, load classes, run initialization commands, or disable transport security. When an application builds one of these from untrusted input, a tenant identifier, a hostname, a region, or an options blob, the attacker can redirect the connection to a server they control, or append a property that flips a dangerous driver feature on. The result ranges from credential capture at a rogue server to local file reads and code execution through the driver. You find it by locating every place a connection string or URL is built from input and asking which host or property the attacker can set.

When to use

  • An application builds a database or service connection string or driver URL from user or tenant input.
  • A hostname, port, tenant, region, or driver option in a connection comes from a request or stored value.
  • A multi-tenant or dynamic-datasource design selects the connection target at runtime from input.

Scope check

Test connection-string handling only against applications and infrastructure you own or are authorized to assess, on non-production systems. A confirming payload can cause the application to connect to a server you control or trigger a driver feature, so stay inside the authorized boundary and use only endpoints you own as the redirect target. If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Establish where connection strings and URLs are built. Inventory every place a connection string, JDBC or driver URL, or datasource is constructed at runtime rather than read whole from fixed configuration. This is the false-positive killer: a connection built entirely from static configuration with no input-derived host or property is not injectable. Name the runtime-built connections first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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 · 137 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 3f67b78a9b0c

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hunting-connection-string-and-jdbc-url-injection is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 1,996 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-05.

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