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ALab Global Admin

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a documented ALab root-administration skill with sensitive authority, but its behavior is disclosed, scoped, and aligned with its stated purpose.

Install only if you actually administer an ALab home. Treat this as a high-privilege operational guide: keep root keys out of prompts and logs, use stdin or secure local secret files, run dry-runs before removals, and review any automatic invocation or handoff before giving another session credentials.

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
94% confidence
Finding
The default prompt and skill description are broad enough that the agent may invoke this skill for loosely related administrative tasks without an explicit user request. Because this skill is explicitly for root-level ALab home administration and credential management, unintended activation could grant high-privilege behavior in contexts where least privilege should apply, increasing the chance of destructive or unauthorized actions.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding
The prompt steers handoff to specific downstream roles ('$alab-project-controller' and '$alab-experiment-worker') as the expected path, which can reduce user agency and encourage automatic delegation patterns. In a privileged admin skill, this is more dangerous because handoffs may propagate sensitive context, credentials, or authority assumptions to other roles without sufficient confirmation or narrowing of permissions.

VirusTotal

63/63 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.