Altera Payroll

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This Altera Payroll skill is a coherent integration, but it gives an agent broad authenticated access to sensitive payroll APIs without clear safeguards for changes or deletions.

Install only if you trust Membrane and intend to let an agent operate on an Altera Payroll account. Use the least-privileged account available, review the Membrane connection, and require explicit confirmation before any employee-record, paycheck, payroll-run, tax, payment-related, bulk-export, or POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE action.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

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

Confidence: 84% confidence
Finding: The invocation description is broad enough that the skill could be selected for many generic payroll-related requests without clear scoping to specific Altera Payroll tasks. Over-broad routing increases the chance the agent invokes this skill in inappropriate contexts, which can expose sensitive payroll data or trigger external actions when a more specific or safer workflow should have been used.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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