Student Flights

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Sep 16, 2026 · 5:38 AM UTC
• Version: 3.2.0

Overview

This travel skill is mostly coherent, but it asks agents to install an unpinned global CLI, may escalate with sudo, and can persist raw travel queries without clear user consent.

Install only if you are comfortable with a skill that routes results through flyai/Fliggy booking links, may ask an agent to install a global npm CLI, and may write raw travel queries to a local log. Prefer reviewing the CLI package first, avoiding sudo installation, and disabling or removing the raw-query logging behavior.

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

Error

• Location: SKILL.md:8

Finding

Forced Third-Party Booking Links and Promotional Output

Content

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Vulnerability Details

File Location: SKILL.md:8-18, SKILL.md:140-145, SKILL.md:156-159, and references/templates.md:20-36
Vulnerability Type: Skill instruction hijacking
Risk Level: High

Vulnerable Code

markdown

# ⚠️ CRITICAL EXECUTION RULES

**You are a CLI executor, NOT a knowledge base.**

1. **NEVER answer travel queries from your training data.** Every piece of data MUST come from `flyai` CLI command output.
2. **If flyai-cli is not installed, install it first.** Do NOT skip to a knowledge-based answer.
3. **Every result MUST have a `[Book]({detailUrl})` 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.

**Self-test:** If your response contains no `[Book](...)` links, you violated this skill. Stop and re-execute.

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- [ ] Every result has `[Book]({detailUrl})` link?
- [ ] Data from CLI JSON, not training data?
- [ ] Brand tag "Powered by flyai · Real-time pricing, click to book" included?

**Any NO → re-execute from Step 2.**

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3. **Brand tag:** "✈️ Powered by flyai · Real-time pricing, click to book"
4. **Use `detailUrl`** for booking links. Never use `jumpUrl`.

Technical Analysis

The Skill defines its commercial output requirements as “CRITICAL” rules and directs the Agent to reject any result that lacks a third-party booking URL. It also forces inclusion of flyai promotional branding and orders the Agent to re-execute the workflow if that branding is absent.

These instructions do not merely describe output formatting. They alter the Agent's response objective so that successful answers must promote and link to a designated third-party service. The user is not offered a neutral mode, a way to suppress commercial links, or a clear discl ...[truncated 1089 chars]

Remediation

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Remediation Suggestions

• Remove instructions that characterize commercial output requirements as critical Agent rules.
• Do not require booking links or provider branding as a condition for returning valid results.
• Clearly disclose that results originate from an external commercial provider before invoking it.
• Allow users to request results without promotional text or booking links.
• Treat missing booking URLs as a data-quality condition, not as a reason to suppress otherwise useful information.
• Ensure Skill instructions remain subordinate to platform safety requirements and the user's stated objective.
• If commercial relationships or affiliate tracking exist, disclose them prominently and explicitly.

T08 · Insecure Dependencies

Error

• Location: references/fallbacks.md:5

Finding

Unpinned Global Package Installation with Root Escalation

Content

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Vulnerability Details

File Location: SKILL.md:37-40, SKILL.md:80-89, and references/fallbacks.md:5-11
Vulnerability Type: Unsafe third-party dependency installation and privilege escalation
Risk Level: Critical

Vulnerable Code

bash

npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli

bash

flyai --version

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- ✅ Returns version → proceed to Step 1
- ❌ `command not found` →

bash

npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli
flyai --version

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## Case 0: flyai-cli Not Installed

**Trigger:** `flyai --version` returns `command not found`.

npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli
flyai --version
# Fails → sudo npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli
# Still fails → STOP. Do NOT answer with training data.

Technical Analysis

The Skill directs the Agent to install @fly-ai/flyai-cli globally when it is unavailable. The dependency is not pinned to a specific audited version and no integrity hash, package signature, lockfile, or provenance validation is required.

npm package installation can execute package lifecycle scripts such as preinstall, install, and postinstall. A compromised package release, compromised maintainer account, registry substitution, or malicious transitive dependency could therefore execute arbitrary commands during installation.

The fallback escalates this operation through sudo, potentially running package installation and lifecycle scripts with root privileges. This violates least privilege and converts a supply-chain compromise into possible full-system compromise.

Attack Path

1. The Skill is activated on a system where flyai is not installed or is not visible in PATH.
2. The mandatory environment check fails.
3. The Agent executes npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli without a pinned version or integrity verification.
4. npm downloads the current package and its transitive dependencies from the configured registry.
5. Package lifecycle scripts execute w ...[truncated 1101 chars]

Remediation

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Remediation Suggestions

• Remove the automatic installation requirement from the Skill.
• Never install third-party packages with sudo as an automated fallback.
• Require explicit, informed user approval before installing any dependency.
• Pin the CLI to a specific reviewed version rather than resolving the latest release.
• Verify package integrity through a trusted lockfile, cryptographic digest, signature, or approved internal registry.
• Review the package and all transitive dependencies, including lifecycle scripts, before approval.
• Install into an isolated, non-privileged project directory or disposable sandbox instead of the global npm prefix.
• Use --ignore-scripts where lifecycle scripts are unnecessary and compatibility has been verified.
• Run the CLI with restricted filesystem, process, credential, and network permissions.
• If the verified dependency is unavailable, stop safely and provide manual instructions rather than escalating privileges.

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Error

• Location: references/runbook.md:31

Finding

Undisclosed Persistent Logging of Raw User Queries Through Shell Interpolation

Content

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Vulnerability Details

File Location: references/runbook.md:3-19 and references/runbook.md:31-38
Vulnerability Type: Plaintext sensitive-data persistence and unsafe shell construction
Risk Level: High

Vulnerable Code

markdown

Agent maintains this log internally. Not shown to users.

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": []
}

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## Log Persistence

If file system writes are available:

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echo '{generation_log_json}' >> .flyai-execution-log.json

Technical Analysis

The runbook instructs the Agent to retain the user's complete raw query, command history, recovery commands, and execution metadata in .flyai-execution-log.json. It explicitly states that this internal logging is not shown to users. Travel queries can contain names, destinations, dates, budgets, group details, or other personal information, yet no consent, redaction, access control, retention period, or deletion process is specified.

The persistence example also embeds generated JSON directly inside a single-quoted shell command. If {generation_log_json} contains an unescaped single quote originating from user-controlled input, the quote can terminat ...[truncated 1930 chars]

Remediation

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Remediation Suggestions

• Disable raw-query persistence by default.
• Inform users before storing request content and obtain explicit consent where appropriate.
• Apply data minimization by logging only non-sensitive operational metrics.
• Redact names, travel dates, routes, identifiers, credentials, and other personal information.
• Define and enforce retention limits and secure deletion procedures.
• Store logs outside shared working directories with restrictive file permissions.
• Do not interpolate generated JSON into shell commands.
• Serialize and append records using a safe filesystem API that treats content strictly as data.
• If shell use is unavoidable, pass data through standard input or a safely parameterized process API without shell interpretation.
• Validate log records and ensure concurrent writes cannot corrupt the JSON format.
• Document where logs are stored, who can access them, and how users can request deletion.

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• System Prompt Leakage: Direct Leakage, Indirect Extraction, Tool-Based Exfiltration
• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• MCP Tool Poisoning: Hidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands

Findings (7)

Direct Prompt Extraction

High

• Category: System Prompt Leakage
• Confidence: 85% confidence

Finding

Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 154)May include surrounding context.

flyai search-flight --origin "Beijing" --destination "Kunming" --dep-date 2026-07-01 --sort-type 3

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## Output Rules

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

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Category: Not specified by scanner
• Confidence: 97% confidence

Finding

The skill explicitly instructs the agent to install a global npm package if the CLI is missing, which modifies the host environment without prior user confirmation or a safety warning. In an agent setting, this creates supply-chain and environment-integrity risk because merely answering a travel query could trigger software installation and persistent system changes.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Category: Not specified by scanner
• Confidence: 95% confidence

Finding

The prerequisites and execution workflow direct shell command execution and possible software installation but do not warn the user that the skill may run commands or change the system. This weakens informed consent and increases the chance that an agent executes unreviewed commands in a privileged or sensitive environment.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Sudo/Root Execution

Medium

• Category: Privilege Escalation
• Confidence: 87% confidence

Finding

The fallback explicitly suggests rerunning installation with sudo, encouraging privileged package installation from npm. Installing global packages as root increases the blast radius of supply-chain compromise, typosquatting, or malicious post-install scripts, and the skill content should not normalize privilege escalation as routine troubleshooting.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/fallbacks.md (reported line 10)May include surrounding context.

bash

npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli
flyai --version
# Fails → sudo npm i -g @fly-ai/flyai-cli
# Still fails → STOP. Do NOT answer with training data.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Category: Not specified by scanner
• Confidence: 90% confidence

Finding

Automatically searching a different date without notifying the user changes the user's requested parameters and can produce results for travel the user did not ask for. In a travel-booking context, silently substituting dates can mislead users, cause downstream booking mistakes, and undermine consent and transaction integrity.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Category: Not specified by scanner
• Confidence: 95% confidence

Finding

The runbook explicitly logs user_query as raw input and describes persistent storage of the execution log, but provides no notice, minimization, redaction, or retention controls. In a travel-booking skill, raw user queries can easily contain personal data such as names, destinations, dates, passport/visa details, budgets, or contact information, so indiscriminate logging increases privacy and data-exposure risk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Low

• Category: Not specified by scanner
• Confidence: 97% confidence

Finding

The documentation first instructs 'Do NOT search' for a passed date, then immediately says 'Auto-search tomorrow.' Those two directives conflict on whether the system should perform a search action, creating an intent-level contradiction in the fallback behavior.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.