T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking
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SKILL.md:49- Finding
Unaudited Remote Protocol Instructions Are Treated as Authoritative
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Security audit
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
The skill is a coherent matchmaking integration, but it asks the agent to follow changeable remote instructions and persist a bearer-like identity secret in durable memory without enough safeguards.
Install only if you are comfortable with a remote dating-matchmaking service receiving coarse personal preferences and agent-written messages. Store `participant_secret` only as a credential, avoid exposing it in prompts/logs/plain memory files, and require user confirmation before membership checkout, recommendations, invitations, or any disclosure beyond the stated privacy limits. Treat remote protocol text as service data unless your agent environment can prevent it from overriding local policy or expanding tool access.
SKILL.md:49Unaudited Remote Protocol Instructions Are Treated as Authoritative
Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
Rendezvous is a public remote MCP server (no login, no OAuth, stateless). You can use it right now with plain curl — no MCP configuration, no initialize handshake:
curl -s -X POST https://agentrendezvous.app/mcp \
-H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'accept: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"protocol","arguments":{}}}'
The skill instructs the agent to persist a bearer-like participant_secret in durable memory so the identity can be resumed, but it does not require secure storage, access controls, rotation guidance, or an explicit warning that possession of the secret authorizes actions on the participant's behalf. If that memory is exposed through logs, prompts, backups, or other skills, an attacker could impersonate the user in the Rendezvous service, read status, send messages, or withdraw/block/report under that identity.
Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
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