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Security audit

Trading Journal

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a simple local trading journal skill with disclosed local storage and no executable or network behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable keeping trading records, position ideas, performance reports, and emotional notes in local files under the OpenClaw workspace. Consider restricting file access or deleting/exporting those files manually if the machine is shared or backed up.

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
  • 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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (2)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly stores trading journal, shadow positions, and reports under predictable local paths without any warning about persistence, retention, or sensitivity of financial decision data. While this is not overtly malicious, trading records can reveal holdings, strategy, position sizing, and emotional notes, which become privacy-sensitive if the host is shared, backed up, or later accessed by other tools.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The description and operational instructions are presented in Chinese throughout the file, which can impose a language constraint on users without opt-in. The policy allows locale constraints when explicitly offered as a choice or clearly justified, but neither is present here.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.