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Security audit

Atlas Obscura API

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward Atlas Obscura lookup helper with a minor dependency-pinning hygiene issue but no hidden persistence, credential access, or destructive behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable with npm fetching the listed Atlas Obscura client and its transitive dependencies. Coordinates you provide to searches may be sent to the underlying Atlas Obscura data source, so avoid using sensitive exact locations if that matters to you.

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
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

Unpinned Dependencies

Low
Category
Supply Chain
Content
"version": "0.1.0",
  "type": "module",
  "dependencies": {
    "atlas-obscura-api": "^2.1.1"
  }
}
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The dependency uses a caret range (^2.1.1), which allows newer minor and patch releases to be installed. This can introduce supply-chain risk because future upstream releases may change behavior or contain malicious or vulnerable code without this skill explicitly reviewing and pinning the exact version.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.