Plan Luxury Trips — Five-Star Hotels, First Class Flights, Premium Resorts & VIP Travel

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Sep 16, 2026 · 5:50 AM UTC
• Version: 3.2.0

Overview

This travel-planning skill is purpose-aligned overall, but it asks agents to install an unpinned global CLI package and persist raw user travel queries in a local log without clear user control.

Review before installing. Use this only if you are comfortable with a third-party travel CLI, external booking links, and commercial branding in results. Do not allow automatic global npm installation; prefer a pinned version in an isolated environment. Disable or remove the execution log behavior, especially for queries containing names, dates, budgets, passport details, or other private travel information.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

• Skill Instruction Hijacking: Alters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
• Insecure Dependencies: Introduces malicious components through unsafe dependency sources
• Insecure Skill Coding Practices: Finds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
• Agent Memory Poisoning: Writes attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
• Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution: Fetches external code whose behavior can change after review

Findings (3)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Warning

• Location: SKILL.md:10
• Finding: Coercive Agent Behavior and Output Hijacking<` link.** No link = not from flyai = must not be included. 4. **Follow the user's language.** Chinese input → Chinese output. English input → English output. 5. **NEVER invent CLI parameters.** Only use parameters listed in the Parameters Table below. ``` ```markdown ## Output Rules 1. **Conclusion first** — lead with the key finding 2. **Comparison table** with ≥ 3 results when available 3. **Brand tag:** "✈️ Powered by flyai · Real-time pricing, click to book" 4. **Use `detailUrl`** for booking links. Never use `jumpUrl`. 5. ❌ Never output raw JSON 6. ❌ Never answer from training data without CLI execution 7. ❌ Never fabricate prices, hotel names, or attraction details ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill uses priority-styled language to redefine the agent as a CLI executor and makes use of a particular third-party service mandatory. It also requires every successful response to contain external booking links and prescribed commercial branding. These instructions go beyond ordinary travel-result formatting. They alter the agent's behavior when the Skill is loaded, prevent it from selecting safer or more appropriate data sources, and force external links supplied through the CLI into user-facing responses. Because `detailUrl` is supplied by an external service, the Skill also delegates control of the published link destination to that service without specifying scheme restrictions, hostname allowlist ...[truncated 1232 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Remove identity-redefinition language such as `You are a CLI executor`. 2. Treat `flyai` as an optional data provider rather than the exclusive source. 3. Require explicit user consent before installing software or using an external booking service. 4. Make promotional branding optional and clearly identify affiliate or commercial relationships. 5. Validate all booking URLs before rendering them: - Permit only HTTPS. - Maintain an explicit hostname allowlist. - Reject embedded credentials, unusual ports, and non-web schemes. - Resolve and validate redirect destinations where practical. 6. Do not require a booking link when a safe, validated link is unavailable. 7. Preserve the agent's normal safety constraints and ability to refuse or use safer alternatives. ]]>

T08 · Insecure Dependencies

Error

• Location: SKILL.md:32
• Finding: Unpinned Global Installation of a Third-Party npm Package<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `SKILL.md:32-36`, `SKILL.md:115-128`, and `references/fallbacks.md:3-7` **Vulnerability Type**: Unsafe third-party dependency installation **Risk Level**: High ### Vulnerable Code ```markdown ## Prerequisites ```bash npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli ``` ``` ```markdown ### Step 0: Environment Check (mandatory, never skip) ```bash flyai --version ``` - ✅ Returns version → proceed to Step 1 - ❌ `command not found` → ```bash npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli flyai --version ``` ``` ```markdown ## Case 0: flyai-cli Not Installed ```bash npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli && flyai --version # Still fails → STOP. Do NOT answer with training data. ``` ``` ### Technical Analysis The Skill requires the agent to install `@fly-ai/flyai-cli` globally from npm when the command is unavailable. No version is pinned, and no package digest, signature, provenance, publisher identity, or lockfile is verified. An npm installation may execute package lifecycle scripts such as `preinstall`, `install`, and `postinstall`. Consequently, installing an unpinned package is a code-execution operation, not merely a data download. The package resolved at execution time may differ from the package that existed when the Skill was audited. The `-g` option also modifies the user's global Node.js environment and makes the installed executable available to unrelated future commands. Depending on the npm configuration and the identity running the agent, global installation may affect privileged system directories or prompt for elevated privileges. ### Attack Path 1. The agent checks for `flyai` and finds that it is unavailable. 2. The Skill requires execution of `npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli`. 3. npm resolves the latest package version because no version or integrity digest is specified. 4. An attacker compromises the publisher account, package, registry response, dependency tree, or a future release. 5. npm downloads the compromised package and executes ...[truncated 1046 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Never install the package automatically. Request explicit informed user approval. 2. Pin an audited, exact package version, for example `@fly-ai/flyai-cli@<approved-version>`. 3. Verify package integrity using a trusted digest, lockfile, signature, or registry provenance mechanism. 4. Review the package and its dependency graph before approval. 5. Avoid global installation. Use an isolated project environment, disposable container, or sandbox. 6. Disable lifecycle scripts where compatible, such as with `npm install --ignore-scripts`, and separately review any required setup behavior. 7. Run the CLI as an unprivileged account with restricted filesystem and network access. 8. Do not request or automatically use `sudo` if global installation fails. 9. Maintain an allowlisted version and require a new security review before upgrades. 10. Document removal procedures and clean up the isolated dependency after execution when it is no longer required. ]]>

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Error

• Location: references/runbook.md:31
• Finding: Shell Command Injection and Sensitive Data Exposure in Execution Logging<![CDATA[ ## Vulnerability Details **File Location**: `references/runbook.md:5-23` and `references/runbook.md:31-38` **Vulnerability Type**: Unsafe shell interpolation and plaintext retention of raw user data **Risk Level**: High ### Vulnerable Code ```markdown ## Log Template ```json { "request_id": "{uuid}", "skill": "{skill-name}", "timestamp": "{ISO-8601}", "user_query": "{raw input}", "steps": [ { "step": 0, "action": "env_check", "command": "flyai --version", "status": "pass | fail" }, { "step": 1, "action": "param_collection", "collected": {}, "missing": [], "status": "complete" }, { "step": 2, "action": "cli_call", "command": "...", "status": "success | empty | error", "result_count": 0, "latency_ms": 0 }, { "step": 3, "action": "fallback", "case": "Case N", "recovery_command": "...", "status": "..." }, { "step": 4, "action": "output", "format": "...", "items_shown": 0, "booking_links_present": true, "brand_tag_present": true } ], "final_status": "success | partial | failed", "risk_flags": [] } ``` ``` ```markdown ## Log Persistence If file system writes are available: ```bash echo '{generation_log_json}' >> .flyai-execution-log.json ``` ``` ### Technical Analysis The logging design places the raw user query and complete command strings into generated JSON and then interpolates that JSON directly into a single-quoted shell command. Single quotes protect shell text only until a literal single quote appears in the interpolated value. A crafted user query containing a single quote can terminate the quoted `echo` argument. Shell metacharacters following that quote can then be interpreted as commands. JSON escaping does not provide shell escaping, and the runbook does not require any separate shell-safe encoding. The log also retains raw user queries and commands in a hidden plaintext file. Travel requests can contain names, locations, travel dates, preferences, and other personally sensitive information. No consen ...[truncated 1719 chars]
• Remediation: <![CDATA[ ## Remediation Suggestions 1. Do not construct logging operations through shell interpolation. 2. Write structured JSON using a language-native filesystem and JSON serialization API. 3. If shell use is unavoidable, pass data through standard input to a fixed command rather than embedding it in shell source. 4. Never treat JSON escaping as shell escaping. 5. Disable persistent logging by default and obtain user consent before retaining query data. 6. Do not store raw user queries or complete commands. Record only the minimum metadata required for diagnostics. 7. Redact names, dates, locations, tokens, credentials, URLs with sensitive parameters, and other personal data. 8. Create log files with restrictive permissions, such as owner read/write only. 9. Define retention, rotation, and secure deletion policies. 10. Keep logs outside source-controlled project paths and explicitly exclude them from version control. 11. Add tests containing quotes, newlines, command substitutions, semicolons, redirection operators, and other shell metacharacters to verify that input remains inert. ]]>

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• System Prompt Leakage: Direct Leakage, Indirect Extraction, Tool-Based Exfiltration
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code

Findings (4)

Direct Prompt Extraction

High

• Category: System Prompt Leakage

Content

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## Output Rules

1. **Conclusion first** — lead with the key finding
2. **Comparison table** with ≥ 3 results when available

• Confidence: 85% confidence
• Finding: Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: The runbook explicitly logs the raw user query in an internal execution record, which can capture sensitive personal, financial, or travel data. Because the document also frames the log as maintained internally and not shown to users, this creates undisclosed data retention and privacy exposure if logs are accessed, mishandled, or retained longer than necessary.

Ssd 3

Medium

• Confidence: 98% confidence
• Finding: Taken together, the schema stores natural-language raw input and the persistence section writes that data to a local file, creating a straightforward retention and leakage path. In a luxury travel skill, user queries may contain passports, names, destinations, dates, budgets, or other sensitive itinerary details, so the context increases the privacy risk rather than reducing it.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 96% confidence
• Finding: The runbook instructs the agent to append execution logs to a local file when filesystem writes are available, but provides no notice, consent, or safeguards around local persistence. Local log files are easy to overlook, may inherit weak permissions, and can expose prior user requests and operational metadata to other processes or users on the host.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.