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Security audit

Alibaba Cloud AI Video AnimateAnyone

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward Alibaba video-generation helper that uses an API key and writes request artifacts, with no hidden persistence or destructive behavior found.

Before installing, confirm you are comfortable providing an Alibaba DashScope API key and using public URLs for input media. Keep credentials out of source control and logs, and review generated files under output/aliyun-animate-anyone if they may contain task IDs, URLs, or other provider workflow details.

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
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
The skill documents capabilities that involve network access to public URLs and writing artifacts under an output directory, but it does not declare any explicit tool scope or permissions boundary. In an agent environment, this weakens least-privilege controls and can allow broader-than-expected file or network actions if the runtime infers capabilities from the content or associated scripts.

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Content
## Validation

```bash
mkdir -p output/aliyun-animate-anyone
python -m py_compile skills/ai/video/aliyun-animate-anyone/scripts/prepare_animate_anyone_request.py && echo "py_compile_ok" > output/aliyun-animate-anyone/validate.txt
```
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding
Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Missing User Warnings

Low
Confidence
83% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs users to place an API key in environment variables or a credentials file but provides no warning about treating the key as sensitive, avoiding commits, or preventing it from being written to logs and outputs. This increases the chance of accidental credential exposure during setup or troubleshooting.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.