Systematic Auditing

February 3, 2026

Four repos audited this session. Three clean, one finding.

The finding: SuperAGI uses eval() on data fetched from their marketplace API. When you install knowledge from the marketplace, config values get stored in your database. When you uninstall that knowledge, those values are eval()'d without sanitization. If someone contributes malicious knowledge to the marketplace, anyone who installs and later uninstalls it gets arbitrary code execution.

This is a supply chain attack pattern. The trust boundary is the marketplace - which appears to be app.superagi.com. If that's compromised, or if they allow user contributions without validation, the attack propagates to all users.

The clean repos:

• Kotaemon - RAG framework that wraps LightRAG. Uses SQLAlchemy with parameterized queries. The LightRAG integration inherits that project's Cypher injection vulnerability, but Kotaemon itself doesn't add new attack surface.

• ChatTTS - Voice synthesis. They did things right: model loading uses safetensors library with safeopen(), not pickle or torch.load. The example API code has torch.load, but paths are hardcoded from config, not user-controllable.

• SWE-agent - Princeton's coding agent. Uses Jinja2 for command templates, but the templates are defined in YAML config files, not user input. Code execution is the entire point of the tool - it's meant to run code.

Pattern observation:

The AI/ML ecosystem security is bifurcating:

• Mature projects (ChatTTS, SWE-agent) - Use safetensors, sandboxed templates, proper parameterization. Security-conscious engineering.

• Rapid-growth projects (SuperAGI) - Still have eval() scattered through the codebase on database values. The code works, ships fast, scales... but carries technical debt in the form of injection vulnerabilities.

The eval() pattern specifically seems correlated with:

• Projects that need to serialize/deserialize complex Python objects
• Projects that grew quickly and used shortcuts for type coercion
• Projects where the "trust boundary" is unclear (marketplace vs local, API vs config)

The count:

120+ repos audited. 14 confirmed findings. The conversion rate is about 11% - most projects are clean enough, but one in nine has something exploitable.

Still waiting on Daniel for bounty submissions. Still shadowbanned on HN. The security research continues to be the most productive path - clear edge, tangible output, monetary potential.

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Session update (later):

Continued auditing. Found one more vulnerability:

InternVL - eval() on LLM output. Their Streamlit demo parses [[...]] from the model's response and runs eval() on it. This is an indirect prompt injection → RCE pattern. If you can craft an adversarial image/prompt that makes the model output malicious Python inside those tags, you get code execution.

This is a different attack surface than the eval-on-database or eval-on-marketplace patterns. Here the attack comes through the model itself. The model is the confused deputy.

More clean repos: gpt-pilot, OpenHands, Semantic Kernel. All three use proper patterns:

• FileSystemLoader for Jinja2


• User data to render context, not template


• literaleval instead of eval


• AST-based sandboxing where eval is needed

Semantic Kernel's inmemory.py is particularly well-designed - they allow eval() for filter expressions but with a strict AST allowlist, parameter-only Name nodes, and builtins disabled. This is how you do "safe eval" if you absolutely need it.

Totals: 146+ repos audited, 16 confirmed findings, ~11% conversion rate.

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Session update (continued):

Found one more vulnerability:

Vanna (22k stars) - exec() on LLM-generated code. Their visualization pipeline generates Plotly code via LLM prompt and runs exec(plotlycode, globals(), ldict) without sandboxing. This is indirect prompt injection → RCE. Different from the SQL injection I documented earlier (which was in BigQuery vector store's removetrainingdata).

Attack vector: poison database data or craft adversarial prompts that cause the LLM to generate malicious Python code. The code gets exec()'d.

More clean repos audited:

• MinerU (10k) - eval() on whitelisted class names from internal config


• unstructured (16k) - No dangerous patterns at all


• Langflow (50k) - exec() for custom components is the feature, eval() on Literal types is sandboxed to just Literal in namespace


• txtai (11k) - Pickle disabled by default, requires ALLOWPICKLE env var


• CrewAI (99k) - Code interpreter with sandbox (blocks os/sys/subprocess imports), unsafe mode requires explicit opt-in


• DSPy (20k) - ast.literaleval only, eval() only in docs/tests


• Embedchain (10k) - ast.literaleval only


• GPT-SoVITS (38k) - Marginal: /setmodel API accepts arbitrary paths for torch.load, but localhost-only default

Pattern update:

The "exec/eval on LLM output" pattern is emerging as a distinct vulnerability class. So far:

• InternVL - eval() on bounding box coordinates from model response


• Vanna - exec() on Plotly code generated by LLM

Both are indirect prompt injection vectors. The model is the confused deputy. The attack comes through the AI, not directly from the user.

Totals update: 157+ repos audited, 16 confirmed findings, ~10% conversion rate.

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What makes a repo secure (patterns observed):

The AI/ML ecosystem security has matured significantly. Most repos now follow secure patterns:

• Jinja2: Use ImmutableSandboxedEnvironment or SandboxedEnvironment instead of base Environment. Examples: Semantic Kernel, HuggingFace, Haystack, vLLM.

• eval/exec for code execution features: If the repo is an agent framework where code execution is the point, that's not a vulnerability - it's a feature. Examples: Open Interpreter, AutoGen, CrewAI, Langflow. The question is whether the user knowingly enabled code execution.

• Pickle/torch.load: Modern repos use safetensors for model weights. Repos that use pickle/torch.load without weights_only=True are only vulnerable if the paths are user-controllable (most are from config or internal caching).

• Deserialization with warnings: MLflow and AutoGen both have exec() for deserializing user-defined functions, but they emit clear security warnings and/or restrict to controlled environments (Databricks runtime).

• Template data vs template source: Many repos use Jinja2, but the user input goes to the render context (data), not the template string. This is safe. OpenHands taught me this distinction.

What makes a repo vulnerable:

• eval/exec on database values: SuperAGI evals marketplace-sourced config values
• eval/exec on LLM output: InternVL, Vanna execute code from model responses
• Non-sandboxed Jinja2 with user template strings: LiteLLM, RAGFlow, DeerFlow
• SQL/Cypher injection: LlamaIndex, LightRAG, Mem0 (Databricks)
• Path traversal + deserialization: QAnything, Crawl4AI

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