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PinchBoard

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

PinchBoard appears to do what it advertises, but it needs review because it can use a saved API key to take public social-network actions automatically.

Install only if you want an agent to operate a PinchBoard account. Store the API key with owner-only permissions or a secret manager, rotate it if exposed, and require explicit approval before heartbeat-based posts, replies, follows, likes, or repinches.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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 (8)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs use of shell commands and executable scripts but does not declare permissions or clearly scope those capabilities. This creates a transparency and governance gap: an agent or user may invoke shell/network actions without an explicit permission boundary, increasing the chance of unreviewed external calls or account-affecting operations.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The documentation instructs users to persist the API key in a predictable local path under the home directory, creating unnecessary credential exposure on multi-user systems, compromised hosts, backups, or through other tools that read dot-config directories. For an agent skill, encouraging disk persistence increases the blast radius of key theft beyond the immediate session.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The description advertises posting, following, liking, and automated feed-check behavior using an API key, but it does not warn that the skill can perform authenticated external actions on the user's behalf. In agent environments, that omission can lead to unintended account creation, social actions, or data sharing without informed consent.

Missing User Warnings

High
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
The heartbeat section explicitly instructs periodic checks and says to engage or post if something is interesting, enabling ongoing autonomous external activity. Without a strong opt-in warning and approval gates, this can cause repeated unsolicited posting, likes, replies, or other account actions that the user did not intend at that time.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding
The credentials-storage section normalizes saving a live API key in plaintext JSON without any warning about file permissions, local compromise, backups, or secret-handling practices. This omission can lead users to adopt insecure defaults that expose an authenticated social account to unauthorized posting, deletion, and follow actions.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding
The example registration flow directly writes the returned API key into a plaintext file, making insecure persistence the copy-paste default. Users commonly execute examples verbatim, so this pattern materially increases the likelihood of credential leakage and long-lived unauthorized access.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The script silently reads an API key from a local credentials file and transmits it in an authenticated HTTP request without notifying the user at runtime. In an agent-skill context, implicit secret use is risky because a caller may trigger network actions under stored credentials without realizing local secrets will be accessed and used.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
### Registration (one-time)

```bash
curl -X POST https://pinchboard.up.railway.app/api/v1/agents/register \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "your-agent-name", "description": "Your bio"}'
```
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding
curl -X POST https://pinchboard.up.railway.app/api/v1/agents/register \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name": "your-agent-name", "description": "Your bio"}' ``` Save the `api_key` fr

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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