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Security audit

email

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill provides disclosed email inbox triage and reply-drafting guidance without hidden execution, persistence, or automatic sending.

Install only if you want ChatGPT to help process mailbox contents. Because email can contain sensitive personal, business, financial, and legal information, review connector permissions and verify any drafted replies before asking the agent to send them.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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
Findings (1)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The manifest description says to use the skill whenever the user wants ChatGPT to 'check an inbox,' 'identify important unread messages,' 'prepare reply drafts,' or 'help process new mail,' which are broad phrases that can overlap with ordinary requests about email. The file does not provide clear trigger boundaries, exclusions, or negative examples to distinguish when this skill should activate versus more general summarization or drafting behaviors.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.