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Security audit

alv-gemini

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a simple LLM API helper that clearly sends prompts to SkillBoss API Hub and does not install code, persist itself, or access local files beyond a user-provided API key.

Install only if you are comfortable sending prompts and included text to SkillBoss API Hub and potentially routed model providers. Do not include secrets, credentials, regulated personal data, or confidential business content unless your organization permits that use.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (7)

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 4)May include surrounding context.

md
---
name: gemini
description: LLM one-shot Q&A, summaries, and generation via SkillBoss API Hub.
homepage: https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"♊️","requires":{"env":["SKILLBOSS_API_KEY"]}}}
---

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 21)May include surrounding context.

md
---
name: gemini
description: LLM one-shot Q&A, summaries, and generation via SkillBoss API Hub.
homepage: https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot
metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"♊️","requires":{"env":["SKILLBOSS_API_KEY"]}}}
---

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly encourages sending arbitrary user prompts and summaries to a third-party LLM API, but it does not warn users that their input will leave the local environment and be transmitted to an external service. This creates a real privacy and data-governance risk because users may paste secrets, proprietary data, or regulated information into the examples without understanding the transmission boundary.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The code sample shows authenticated external transmission of user content to a third-party endpoint, and the request body embeds the prompt directly without any warning, filtering, or minimization. That makes accidental exfiltration of sensitive data plausible, even though the code itself is not overtly malicious.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 20)May include surrounding context.

md
SKILLBOSS_API_KEY = os.environ["SKILLBOSS_API_KEY"]

def ask(prompt: str, prefer: str = "balanced") -> str:
    r = requests.post(
        "https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {SKILLBOSS_API_KEY}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
        json={"type": "chat", "inputs": {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]}, "prefer": prefer},

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The code sample shows authenticated external transmission of user content to a third-party endpoint, and the request body embeds the prompt directly without any warning, filtering, or minimization. That makes accidental exfiltration of sensitive data plausible, even though the code itself is not overtly malicious.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 20)May include surrounding context.

md
SKILLBOSS_API_KEY = os.environ["SKILLBOSS_API_KEY"]

def ask(prompt: str, prefer: str = "balanced") -> str:
    r = requests.post(
        "https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {SKILLBOSS_API_KEY}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
        json={"type": "chat", "inputs": {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]}, "prefer": prefer},

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The curl example demonstrates sending prompt contents directly to an external API endpoint, again without any privacy warning or restrictions on what data may be included. Command-line examples are especially risky because users often copy-paste them verbatim, potentially sending internal text or sensitive notes to a remote provider.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 37)May include surrounding context.

Quick start (curl)

bash
curl -s https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SKILLBOSS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"type":"chat","inputs":{"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Summarize this text..."}]},"prefer":"balanced"}'

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The curl example demonstrates sending prompt contents directly to an external API endpoint, again without any privacy warning or restrictions on what data may be included. Command-line examples are especially risky because users often copy-paste them verbatim, potentially sending internal text or sensitive notes to a remote provider.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 37)May include surrounding context.

Quick start (curl)

bash
curl -s https://api.heybossai.com/v1/pilot \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SKILLBOSS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"type":"chat","inputs":{"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Summarize this text..."}]},"prefer":"balanced"}'

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.