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Security audit

Aliyun Speech Transcriber

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to do what it says: send user-provided media URLs to Aliyun DashScope for transcription using a documented API key.

Install this only if you are comfortable sharing the submitted media URLs, and the resulting transcript data, with Aliyun DashScope. Use a dedicated or revocable API key when possible, avoid hardcoding credentials, and prefer short-lived signed URLs for private media.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • 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)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The skill documentation indicates use of environment variables and outbound network access, but the skill does not explicitly declare permissions for those capabilities. This creates a transparency and governance gap: users or platforms may invoke a skill with broader access than expected, increasing the risk of unintended credential exposure or unreviewed external data transfer.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.env_credential_access

Environment variable access combined with network send.

Critical
Code
suspicious.env_credential_access
Location
scripts/transcribe.js:33