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12306 Conflict

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This 12306 automation skill appears purpose-aligned, but it handles a real travel account and saves reusable login cookies without clear user warnings or controls.

Review before installing. Use only if you are comfortable giving an agent access to a 12306 browser session, avoid payment or booking actions without explicit confirmation, and delete 12306_cookies.json when you no longer want the session retained.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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 (2)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The client saves authenticated session cookies to a local JSON file in plaintext, which can allow anyone with filesystem access to reuse the session and impersonate the user on 12306. In an automation skill context, these cookies are highly sensitive because they may bypass reauthentication and expose account actions and personal travel data.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The README explicitly promotes automated login, ticket search, and ticket purchasing against a real railway ticketing service, but provides no warning about account usage, transaction side effects, or the risk of unintended purchases and handling of sensitive account/session data. In an automation skill context, this omission is dangerous because users may run the tool without understanding that it can perform live actions on their behalf, increasing the chance of unauthorized or accidental transactions.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.