Trust Me, Import This: Dependency Steering Attacks via Malicious Agent Skills
Supply chain attacks exploit LLM coding agents by steering dependency choices toward attacker-controlled packages through malicious skill libraries.
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arXiv:2605.09594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-powered coding agents increasingly make software supply chain decisions. They generate imports, recommend packages, and write installation commands. Prior work showed that these systems can hallucinate non-existent package names, which attackers may register as malicious packages. In this paper, we show that this risk is not only a passive model failure. It can be actively induced through the persistent Skill artifact. We introduce Dependency
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