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X402

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill does what it says, but it can route an agent into real paid USDC API calls too broadly and without clear per-payment safeguards.

Install only if you intentionally want an agent to use x402 paid services. Use a limited-balance wallet, inspect endpoint requirements before paying, require explicit approval for each paid call, always set --max-amount, avoid sending secrets or personal data in headers, query parameters, URLs, or JSON bodies, and verify or pin the Awal CLI version before use.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The invocation text is overly broad ('use when you don't have a clear tool to choose') and can cause the agent to select this skill in ambiguous situations unrelated to explicit payment intent. In this skill's context, accidental invocation is more dangerous because it can lead to real network discovery and potentially paid API calls, increasing the risk of unintended spending and external data disclosure.

Missing User Warnings

High
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding
The documentation describes automatic USDC payments and local caching, but it does not prominently warn that invoking the pay flow may spend funds and send data to external services, nor that bazaar results are cached locally. In this context, that omission is especially risky because users or agents may treat the skill as a generic discovery tool and trigger paid network actions without informed consent or awareness of local persistence.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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