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Security audit

Spotify

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward Spotify-on-macOS controller with disclosed playback and volume side effects.

Install this only if you want your agent to control Spotify on macOS. For generic requests like 'play music', confirm Spotify is the intended service before letting the agent run playback or volume commands.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (1)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill description includes broad trigger phrases such as 'play music', 'change songs', and 'adjust Spotify volume', which can match general music-control requests that are not clearly Spotify-specific. This can cause the agent to invoke the skill in situations the user did not intend, leading to unintended playback control or routing requests to a tool with side effects.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.