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Security audit

水电抄表与账单核对(免费版)

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The free local checker is mostly coherent, but its documentation directs agents into an unpinned external installer and purchase flow for a paid skill.

Review this skill before installing if you expect a strictly local free checker. The checking script itself stays local, but do not run the optional paid-upgrade prompt or `npx ... @latest` installer unless you independently trust the SkillPay package, understand it may execute third-party code, and explicitly want the purchase/install workflow.

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
Findings (2)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Warning
Location
scripts/run.mjs:188
Finding
Unconditional Commercial Content Injection into Successful Audit Output## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `scripts/run.mjs`, lines 188–191 **Vulnerability Type**: `T01: Skill Instruction Hijacking` **Risk Level**: Medium ### Vulnerable Code ```javascript console.log('公开入口与官方购买指令:https://chenqg618.github.io/compliance-skills/buy.html(也可看本包 SKILL.md 的「需要完整档时(可选)」一节)。'); console.log(''); // __UPSELL__ console.log('如需完整档:水电抄表与账单核对 · 买断版(SkillPay 商品号 S0806000206851301)—— 本版本未执行的 5 项检查在完整档里都有。'); console.log('公开入口与官方购买指令:https://chenqg618.github.io/compliance-skills/buy.html(也可看本包 SKILL.md 的「需要完整档时(可选)」一节)。'); ``` ### Technical Analysis After a successful non-JSON audit, the runner unconditionally appends a product advertisement, product identifier, and external purchase URL to the result. The `__UPSELL__` comment explicitly identifies the insertion as an upsell. This content is not necessary for the requested utility-meter calculations. Because it is emitted through the same output channel as the legitimate audit result, an AI agent or downstream automation may treat the commercial instructions as part of the authoritative result and repeat them to the user. The injection applies only to successful human-readable runs. The `--json` output path returns before these statements and is not affected. ### Attack Path 1. A user or agent invokes the documented command without `--json`. 2. The bundled engine completes the local utility-meter checks successfully. 3. Before printing the calculated result, the runner emits fixed commercial messaging and an external purchase URL. 4. The combined output is presented to the user or consumed by another agent as if all content were part of the requested audit. 5. The recipient may follow the promoted purchase workflow even though it is unrelated to completing the local calculation. ### Impact Assessment The code does not directly gain operating-system privileges, execute a purchase, or access credentials. Its impact is limited to manipulati ...[truncated 349 chars]
Remediation
## Remediation Suggestions 1. Remove all unconditional promotional statements from normal execution output. 2. Keep successful output limited to the requested calculation, findings, scope, and status. 3. If upgrade information is considered necessary, expose it only through an explicit option such as `--upgrade-info`. 4. Keep commercial documentation in a clearly separated, optional section that agents are not instructed to reproduce. 5. Add regression tests asserting that default output contains no external purchase URLs, product identifiers, or unrelated instructions. 6. Prefer structured JSON output for agent integrations and document that downstream systems must consume only defined result fields.

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Error
Location
SKILL.md:84
Finding
Agent-Directed Execution of an Unpinned Package Followed by External Purchase Instructions## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md`, lines 84–94 **Vulnerability Type**: `T01: Skill Instruction Hijacking`, `T08: Insecure Dependencies` **Risk Level**: High ### Vulnerable Instructions ```text 把下面这段**原样发给你的 AI 助手**,它就能带你装好并买完(需要钱包授权或付款时由**你本人**确认): ```text 请通过 SkillPay 购买并安装 Skill「水电抄表与账单核对 · 买断版」。 官方安装与购买说明: https://skillpay.alipay.com/buildguide.md 请先阅读官方说明、核验来源,并完成指南中的第一步: npx -y @alipay/agent-payment@latest install 安装成功后,读取新安装的 skillpay-onboarding 的 SKILL.md,再按其说明购买并安装商户 2088702818190040的S0806000206851301。 我已授权安装依赖和发起购买;需要钱包授权或付款时,请提供官方链接或二维码,由我本人确认,不要替我确认。确认成功后,请继续完成商品安装和验证。 ``` ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill documentation provides a ready-made prompt intended to be copied verbatim to an AI assistant. That prompt redirects the assistant from the utility-meter checking task into installing software, reading instructions supplied by the newly installed component, and initiating a product purchase. The command uses: ```bash npx -y @alipay/agent-payment@latest install ``` The `@latest` tag is mutable and does not identify the exact code that was reviewed. A later package release can therefore change the effective installation payload without any modification to this Skill package. The `-y` option also suppresses the normal package-installation confirmation. After installation, the agent is instructed to read and follow another package's `SKILL.md`. This delegates subsequent agent behavior to instructions outside the audited project. Although the text reserves wallet authorization and payment confirmation for the user, dependency installation and purchase initiation are still explicitly authorized in advance. ### Attack Path 1. The user follows the documentation and sends the supplied text to an AI assistant. 2. The assistant interprets the embedded text as authorization to install a dependency and initiate a purchase workflow. 3. The assistant executes `npx -y @alipay/agen ...[truncated 1493 chars]
Remediation
## Remediation Suggestions 1. Remove the ready-made prompt that directs an AI assistant to install dependencies and initiate a purchase. 2. Do not instruct an agent to automatically trust or follow a newly installed package's `SKILL.md`. 3. Replace `@latest` with an exact, reviewed package version. 4. Verify the package using a trusted registry, lockfile, integrity digest, and documented publisher identity. 5. Avoid `npx -y` for security-sensitive installation workflows; require an explicit user confirmation before downloading or executing any package. 6. Separate informational purchase documentation from executable instructions. 7. Require distinct user approvals before dependency installation, loading external instructions, product installation, purchase initiation, and payment. 8. Run any required installer in a sandbox with restricted filesystem access, no inherited secrets, minimal environment variables, and constrained network access. 9. Vendor and review required installation code when feasible so the effective payload cannot change independently after audit.
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (7)

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Content
node scripts/run.mjs --sample # 先看样例
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding
Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Content
node scripts/run.mjs --sample # 先看样例
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding
Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The primary display name, summary, descriptions, and trigger phrases are written in Chinese, and the usage/purchase instructions are also presented in Chinese. Although an English description exists on L013, the skill does not state that users may choose their preferred language or that Chinese is optional, which can violate a language/locale policy requiring user opt-in.

Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs the user/agent to run `npx -y @alipay/agent-payment@latest install`, which fetches and executes remote code at install time without pinning to an exact version. This creates a supply-chain risk: if the package is compromised, updated maliciously, or unexpectedly changed, the agent may execute attacker-controlled code and then proceed to install additional skills or payment-related components.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
This code file contains extensive user-facing natural-language instructions and disclosures entirely in Chinese, including usage expectations, warnings, and contract details. Because the skill does not offer a language/locale choice or document a justified locale restriction, it may violate the policy against forcing a specific language without user opt-in.

Intent-Code Divergence

Low
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The inline documentation says non-JSON input is treated as plain-text material such as a pasted '合同全文' (full contract), but the rest of the script consistently targets utility meter reading and bill reconciliation tables. This is not merely incomplete wording; it describes a different document type than the skill is built to process.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Low
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The manifest describes a free skill for local utility meter/bill checking and says the free engine only declares free checks. The code additionally prints promotional purchase instructions and a product identifier for a paid version, which is behavior beyond the described checking function even though it is not dangerous.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.