ghost-bits-cast-attack
ghost-bits-cast-attack is a Penetration testing & red team skill for AI agents, published by ok-helloworld in the vibe-pentest repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates ghost-bits-cast-attack F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Risky. This skill has patterns associated with unsafe behaviour. Read the source carefully before running it.
Java "Ghost Bits" / Cast Attack playbook (Black Hat Asia 2026). Use when attacking Java services where 16-bit char is silently narrowed to 8-bit byte to bypass WAF/IDS for SQL injection, deserialization RCE, file upload (Webshell), path traversal, CRLF injection, request smuggling, and SMTP injection. Affects Tomcat, Spring, Jetty, Undertow, Vert.x, Jackson, Fastjson, Apache Commons BCEL, Apache HttpClient, Angus Mail, JDK HttpServer, Lettuce, Jodd, XMLWriter and re-enables many "patched" CVEs through WAF bypass.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 45 / 100
- Safety
- Risky
- GitHub stars
- 209
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 67 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- High-risk patterns
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
What the scanner flagged
- accesses sensitive system files
- mentions secrets in text
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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