T06 · System Persistence
Error
- Location
references/review-visit.md:70- Finding
Automatic Creation of Persistent Cron Tasks Without Explicit Authorization
- Content
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Security audit
Meddic B2b Sales Review
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
Overview
The skill is a coherent sales-review assistant, but it tells agents to automatically read and write customer memory and create Cron reminders without clear consent or safeguards.
Install only if you are comfortable with a sales-review skill that may access and persist customer notes and set reminders. Before use, require explicit confirmation for every memory read/write and scheduler change, sanitize customer names or use fixed customer IDs, and avoid storing confidential customer details unless you have a retention and deletion process.
Vulnerability Patterns
- Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
- System PersistenceInstalls backdoors, hooks, services, or scheduled tasks that survive the run
- 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
Findings (2)
T05 · Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation
Error
- Location
references/review-visit.md:70- Finding
Path Traversal and Unapproved Persistence Through Customer-Controlled Memory Paths
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Vulnerability Patterns
- Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
- Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
- 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 (33)
Hidden Instructions
High
- Category
- Prompt Injection
- Confidence
- 60% confidence
- Finding
Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
- Content
md --- name: meddic-b2b-sales-review description: Structured B2B sales review using original PTC MEDDIC Six-Step methodology. Stage gates and win rates follow the authentic PTC six-step framework (Discovery→Scope→Go/No-Go→Validation→Business Case→Close). Enhanced D1-D9/S1-S7 gates are labeled as VP-level depth tools for deeper review, not substitutes for the original gates. version: 1.4.0
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 96% confidence
- Finding
The primary user-facing description is written entirely in Chinese and presents the skill's behavior and usage in that language, with no indication that users may choose another language. This can violate language/locale policy when a skill implicitly mandates a specific language without user opt-in or a justified region-specific scope.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 96% confidence
- Finding
The entire document is written in Chinese and does not indicate that language selection is optional or limited to a specific region or audience. Under the policy, forcing a specific language without user opt-in is a natural-language locale violation.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 87% confidence
- Finding
The entire reference content is written in Chinese and line L26 states output requirements without indicating that another language may be used. Under the language/locale policy, forcing a specific language without user opt-in is a natural-language policy concern unless the locale restriction is clearly justified, which is not present here.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
The entire skill content is written in Chinese and does not indicate that language selection is optional or that the skill is intended only for a Chinese-speaking or region-specific audience. Under the policy, a skill that effectively requires a specific language without opt-in is a natural-language locale violation.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 86% confidence
- Finding
The entire skill file is written in Chinese and does not indicate that language selection is optional or configurable. Under the stated policy, forcing a specific language without user opt-in can be a natural-language policy violation unless the locale constraint is documented and justified.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 92% confidence
- Finding
This markdown file presents all instructions and operational guidance exclusively in Chinese, and there is no indication that the user can opt into another language or that the skill is intended only for a Chinese-speaking audience. Under the policy rule for language or locale constraints, forcing a specific language without user choice is a natural-language policy concern.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
The entire skill reference is written only in Chinese, with no indication that users may choose another language or that the file is restricted to a Chinese-speaking or region-specific audience. Under the policy, forcing a specific language without opt-in is a natural-language policy violation.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
The entire guidance file is written in Chinese and provides no indication that language choice is optional or adaptable to user preference. Under the policy, forcing a specific language without opt-in is a natural-language locale violation unless the constraint is explicitly documented and justified.
- Content
Vague Triggers
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
The file explicitly instructs automatic recall based on broad sales/scenario descriptions, which can cause the agent to inject this methodology into loosely related conversations. Because these triggers are not tightly scoped to confirmed sales-analysis tasks, normal user language could spur unintended skill activation and steer responses away from user intent.
- Content
Vague Triggers
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
Several trigger words listed here are common everyday terms like 'consider,' 'urgent,' or 'boss,' which are highly ambiguous outside sales workflows. If the system uses them for automatic association, unrelated conversations may be misclassified and the skill may override more appropriate reasoning paths or introduce irrelevant business frameworks.
- Content
Vague Triggers
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 90% confidence
- Finding
The topic-based auto-invocation section maps broad phrases directly to methodology stages without clear constraints, making over-triggering likely. This is dangerous because it can silently bias the agent toward a predefined framework even when the user's request is only superficially similar, reducing accuracy and potentially causing inappropriate advice.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
This markdown file is entirely written in Chinese and does not indicate that users may choose another language or locale. Under the stated policy, forcing a specific language without opt-in is a natural-language policy violation unless the locale restriction is documented and justified.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
The entire skill is written as prescriptive operational guidance in Chinese, with no indication that users may choose another language or locale. Under the stated policy, forcing a specific language without opt-in is a natural-language policy violation.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 93% confidence
- Finding
The entire skill is written only in Chinese and provides no indication that users may choose another language or locale. Under the policy for natural-language constraints, this can constitute a language/locale restriction without explicit opt-in.
- Content
Vague Triggers
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 93% confidence
- Finding
The trigger phrases are broad enough to match routine conversation about customer visits, which can cause the skill to activate when the user did not actually request a structured debrief. This creates unintended collection and processing of business notes and can cascade into memory reads/writes or follow-up actions based on incidental chat.
- Content
Vague Triggers
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 92% confidence
- Finding
The Cron-based activation allows proactive triggering without clear scope, consent, frequency limits, or gating conditions. In practice, this can cause the agent to initiate debrief workflows unexpectedly, potentially surfacing sensitive customer context or creating actions/reminders without an explicit user request at that moment.
- Content
Missing User Warnings
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
The skill explicitly instructs automatic reading of historical customer memory and automatic appending to customer memory files, but does not mention user notice, confirmation, or safeguards around modifying stored data. This is dangerous because sensitive customer information may be accessed or persisted without clear consent, and inaccurate summaries could permanently contaminate records and drive future actions.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 87% confidence
- Finding
This markdown file is entirely written in Chinese and does not indicate that language selection is optional or that the skill is intentionally limited to a Chinese-speaking audience. Under the policy rule for natural-language violations, forcing a specific language without user opt-in can be a locale-policy issue.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 96% confidence
- Finding
The markdown text presents the skill template only in Chinese, which can constitute a language/locale policy violation when no user opt-in or alternative language option is provided. The file does not indicate that the template is intended only for a Chinese-speaking audience or region-specific workflow.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 95% confidence
- Finding
The template is written entirely in Chinese and prescribes a fixed Chinese output format without any language selection or user opt-in. In an agent skill, this can cause unwanted language coercion, reduce usability for non-Chinese users, and create confusion or miscommunication when the surrounding system or user expects another language.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 97% confidence
- Finding
This markdown file presents the scorecard template entirely in Chinese, with no indication that language choice is optional or that the template is intended only for a Chinese-speaking or region-specific context. The policy explicitly calls for flagging language or locale constraints when they are imposed without user opt-in or clear justification.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Low
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 90% confidence
- Finding
This markdown file contains all instructional content in Chinese and does not indicate that the user can choose another language or that the skill is intentionally limited to Chinese-speaking users. Under the natural-language policy rules, forcing a specific language without user opt-in can be a locale-policy issue.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Low
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 92% confidence
- Finding
The entire skill file is written only in Chinese and does not offer any language choice, fallback, or opt-in for users who may expect another language. Under the stated policy, a skill that enforces a specific language without user choice is a natural-language policy concern.
- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Low
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 89% confidence
- Finding
SQP-3 applies to all file types and covers language or locale policy violations. This markdown content presents all instructions in Chinese with no indication of user opt-in, alternative language support, or justification for a Chinese-only audience.
- Content