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Security audit

Nvidia smi tutorial

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a straightforward nvidia-smi guide with one operational caution around process termination, but no hidden install, persistence, exfiltration, or deceptive behavior.

Safe to install as a GPU troubleshooting reference. Treat process termination advice carefully: confirm the PID, owner, and workload impact first, and prefer scheduler-native cancellation or graceful shutdown on shared systems.

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
  • 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 explicitly instructs users to terminate a process with kill <PID> to free VRAM, but it provides no caution about verifying process ownership, confirming the target, or the risk of terminating critical workloads. In a system administration or shared GPU environment, this can lead to accidental disruption of other users' jobs or important services, making the guidance operationally unsafe even if not overtly malicious.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.