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Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to be a straightforward Google Places search CLI wrapper, with disclosed but sensitive setup steps for installing the tool and using an API key.

Before installing, review the GitHub repository and install a pinned release when possible. Use a dedicated, restricted Google Places API key with billing limits, avoid printing or hardcoding it, and consider replacing the documented 1Password path with your own secret-manager reference.

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 (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding
The skill documentation explicitly references a concrete 1Password secret path for a Google API key, which discloses the existence, storage location, and retrieval identifier of a sensitive credential. Even without the secret value itself, this materially lowers the barrier to credential targeting, misuse by other agents/users with 1Password access, and accidental exfiltration because it normalizes direct secret retrieval in user-facing instructions without any handling safeguards.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.