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Apple Notes

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill clearly describes a macOS Apple Notes CLI integration, with sensitive but expected note access and no hidden or malicious behavior found.

Install only if you are comfortable granting the memo CLI access to Apple Notes. Review the upstream project before installing, prefer a known release when possible, and confirm note titles/folders carefully before edit, move, export, or delete operations.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Insecure DependenciesIntroduces malicious components through unsafe dependency sources
  • 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
Findings (1)

T08 · Insecure Dependencies

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:4
Finding

Unpinned Third-Party CLI Installation from Mutable Sources

Content
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Remediation
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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 (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The skill documentation explicitly includes note deletion functionality but does not warn that deletion is destructive or state that the agent should require explicit user confirmation before invoking it. In an agentic context, this increases the risk of accidental or ambiguous destructive actions that could permanently remove user data from Apple Notes.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.