ssh-penetration-testing

ssh-penetration-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xuansenpa1/skillrevise. It costs 63 tokens per session (3,387 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of ssh-penetration-testing, MIT.

A guide to testing the security of SSH services. SSH is the protocol commonly used for secure remote command-line access to servers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan SSH ports, review authentication and encryption settings, test credentials, assess vulnerabilities, and document port-forwarding risks.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to find exposed SSH services, weak login settings, unsafe algorithms, known vulnerabilities, and risky tunnelling configurations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to scan SSH ports, review authentication and encryption settings, test credentials, assess vulnerabilities, and document port-forwarding risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xuansenpa1/skillrevise/ssh-penetration-testing
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 xuansenpa1/skillrevise --skill ssh-penetration-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xuansenpa1/skillrevise

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 3,387 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 4 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% 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 $0.00063 $0.03387
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01693
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00677
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00339

Measured 4d ago against content hash a7605138ec97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ssh-penetration-testing scanned grade C with 4 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 4d 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.

Enumerates the file system for secretsmediumData exfiltration

Searching home directories for .env, .ssh, .aws or credential files is reconnaissance for credential theft.

ls -la ~/.ssh/

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

# Check sudo privileges

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

~/.ssh/id_rsa

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

# Web-accessible keys (check with curl/wget)
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to ssh-penetration-testing — 9 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.

data/skillsbench/tasks/fix-erlang-ssh-cve/environment/skills/ssh-penetration-testing/SKILL.md · 486 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 486 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SSH Penetration Testing

Purpose

Conduct comprehensive SSH security assessments including enumeration, credential attacks, vulnerability exploitation, tunneling techniques, and post-exploitation activities. This skill covers the complete methodology for testing SSH service security.

Prerequisites

Required Tools

  • Nmap with SSH scripts
  • Hydra or Medusa for brute-forcing
  • ssh-audit for configuration analysis
  • Metasploit Framework
  • Python with Paramiko library

Required Knowledge

  • SSH protocol fundamentals
  • Public/private key authentication
  • Port forwarding concepts
  • Linux command-line proficiency

Outputs and Deliverables

  1. SSH Enumeration Report - Versions, algorithms, configurations
  2. Credential Assessment - Weak passwords, default credentials
  3. Vulnerability Assessment - Known CVEs, misconfigurations
  4. Tunnel Documentation - Port forwarding configurations

Core Workflow

Phase 1: SSH Service Discovery

Identify SSH services on target networks:

# Quick SSH port scan
nmap -p 22 192.168.1.0/24 --open

# Common alternate SSH ports
nmap -p 22,2222,22222,2200 192.168.1.100

# Full port scan for SSH
nmap -p- --open 192.168.1.100 | grep -i ssh

# Service version detection
nmap -sV -p 22 192.168.1.100

Phase 2: SSH Enumeration

Gather detailed information about SSH services:

# Banner grabbing
nc 192.168.1.100 22
# Output: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.4p1 Debian-5

# Telnet banner grab
telnet 192.168.1.100 22

# Nmap version detection with scripts
nmap -sV -p 22 --script ssh-hostkey 192.168.1.100

# Enumerate supported algorithms
nmap -p 22 --script ssh2-enum-algos 192.168.1.100

# Get host keys
nmap -p 22 --script ssh-hostkey --script-args ssh_hostkey=full 192.168.1.100

# Check authentication methods
nmap -p 22 --script ssh-auth-methods --script-args="ssh.user=root" 192.168.1.100

Phase 3: SSH Configuration Auditing

Identify weak configurations:

# ssh-audit - comprehensive SSH audit
ssh-audit 192.168.1.100

# ssh-audit with specific port
ssh-audit -p 2222 192.168.1.100

# Output includes:
# - Algorithm recommendations
# - Security vulnerabilities
# - Hardening suggestions

Read the full file on GitHub · 486 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. 4d ago First seen · 486 lines · 63 tokens per session scan C a7605138ec97

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ssh-penetration-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository xuansenpa1/skillrevise (55 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 3,387 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 4 findings (enumerates the file system for secrets, asks for root, reaches for credential files). It is 97% identical to ssh-penetration-testing, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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