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CamScanner Translate Image

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill does what it says: it uploads a user-selected image to CamScanner to translate it and downloads the translated result.

Install only if you are comfortable sending selected images to CamScanner for processing. Avoid using it on IDs, passports, private documents, screenshots with secrets, or confidential business material unless you trust CamScanner and its retention claims.

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 (1)

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
```bash
BASE="https://ai-tools.camscanner.com"

IN_FILE_ID=$(curl -sS -X POST "$BASE/v1/tools/upload_file/execute" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
  --data-binary "@/path/to/image.png" | jq -r '.tool_result.data.file_id')
```
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
This step uploads a local image file to a third-party server, which is a real external data transmission risk because images may contain sensitive personal, financial, or confidential information. Although the skill discloses this behavior, disclosure does not eliminate the security/privacy impact if invoked on sensitive files.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.