abe-exchange-rates

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This appears to be a currency-rate lookup skill with a transparency issue around fallback data sources, not evidence of malware or unsafe control of the user’s system.

Install only if informational exchange-rate lookup is acceptable for your use case. Do not rely on the output for compliance, accounting, trading, or source-specific pricing decisions unless the skill clearly reports which provider supplied each rate.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • 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)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding
The skill advertises XE.com-sourced exchange rates, but if scraping fails it silently switches to a different provider. This is a real integrity and transparency issue because callers may rely on the stated source, pricing methodology, or legal/compliance characteristics of XE, while actually receiving data from another service without notice.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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