# auth-sec

Entry P1 category router for authentication and authorization testing. Helps choose the right audit path before digging into specific attacks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3700 installs · ★ 2547
- Author: yaklang
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/auth-sec/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/auth-sec

## What it does

The skill serves as a P1 routing entry point for login flows, sessions, and authorization boundaries. It decides whether to prioritize authentication mechanics, object-level checks, or identity protocols. That keeps the audit focused.

The recommended sequence follows four clear stages. First, the agent confirms the authentication model and session boundaries. Next, it validates object-level and function-level access permissions. It then examines tokens, CORS, and CSRF before moving to federation mechanisms like OAuth, OIDC, or SAML.

This skill only routes between specialized topics from the repository and does not run exploits directly. Skipping this triage step causes agents to jump straight into protocol attacks while missing fundamental permission flaws.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill auth-sec -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/auth-sec/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/auth-sec/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill auth-sec -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/auth-sec/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill auth-sec -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/auth-sec/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install yaklang/hack-skills auth-sec
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/auth-sec/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill auth-sec -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills --path skills/auth-sec
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/auth-sec/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add yaklang/hack-skills --skill auth-sec -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/auth-sec/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- prioritize testing between authentication logic and object authorization
- route security audits to specific subtopics like JWT, OAuth, or SAML
- structure assessments covering login bypass, IDOR, CORS, and CSRF

## Example prompts
- Check our login and session flows and decide what to test first
- We have OAuth and JWT tokens in use, run auth-sec to route the security check
- Plan an assessment for broken object authorization and session boundaries

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: auth-sec
description: >-
  Entry P1 category router for authentication and authorization. Use when
  testing login flows, sessions, object authorization, JWT, OAuth, CORS, CSRF,
  and enterprise SSO weaknesses before any deeper auth topic skill.
---

# Authentication and Authorization Router

This is the routing entry point for authentication, sessions, and authorization boundaries.

Use it to decide whether the issue is mainly login mechanics, object-level authorization, browser trust boundaries, or identity protocols such as OAuth/JWT/SAML before going deeper.

## When to Use

- The target includes login, registration, password reset, 2FA, sessions, JWT, OAuth, or SSO
- You suspect object authorization flaws, cross-tenant access, cross-origin reads, CSRF, or protocol misconfiguration
- You need to decide whether to test authentication or authorization first

## Skill Map

- [Authentication Bypass](../authbypass-authentication-flaws/SKILL.md): login bypass, password reset, 2FA, enumeration, brute-force protections
- [IDOR Broken Object Authorization](../idor-broken-object-authorization/SKILL.md): IDOR, BOLA, BFLA, missing object permissions
- [JWT OAuth Token Attacks](../jwt-oauth-token-attacks/SKILL.md): algorithm confusion, key trust issues, claim abuse, token forgery
- [OAuth OIDC Misconfiguration](../oauth-oidc-misconfiguration/SKILL.md): redirect URI, state, nonce, PKCE, account binding
- [CSRF Cross Site Request Forgery](../csrf-cross-site-request-forgery/SKILL.md): CSRF tokens, SameSite, JSON CSRF, login CSRF
- [CORS Cross Origin Misconfiguration](../cors-cross-origin-misconfiguration/SKILL.md): reflected Origin, credentialed cross-origin reads, allowlist bypass
- [SAML SSO Assertion Attacks](../saml-sso-assertion-attacks/SKILL.md): assertion wrapping, signature validation, audience, ACS boundaries

## Recommended Flow

1. First confirm the authentication model and session boundaries
2. Then confirm object-level and function-level authorization
3. Then move to token, cross-origin, and protocol details
4. If enterprise federation exists, continue with OAuth, OIDC, or SAML topics

## Related Categories

- [api-sec](../api-sec/SKILL.md)
- Default credentials, username variants, wordlist sizing, and port focus are consolidated in [authbypass-authentication-flaws](../authbypass-authentication-flaws/SKILL.md)
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