Google Cloud Translate

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a disclosed Google Cloud Translate skill that uses Membrane for authentication and API access, with some broad but visible proxy-request capability users should control carefully.

Install only if you trust Membrane and the npm CLI package, review the Google permissions granted during connection, and require explicit approval before using raw proxy requests that create, update, delete, or send sensitive content.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding
The skill is framed as a Google Cloud Translate integration, but it documents a much broader capability: creating connections and issuing arbitrary proxied HTTP requests, including state-changing methods. That expands the operational scope beyond translation and can enable unintended access or modification of external resources if the agent follows the documentation too literally.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
Including a generic raw HTTP proxy in a narrowly branded integration gives the agent a powerful escape hatch that bypasses the safety of curated actions. Even if intended for flexibility, this increases the chance of data exfiltration, overbroad API access, or misuse against endpoints unrelated to the user's requested translation task.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
The proxy-request guidance tells the agent how to send direct requests to an external API but does not warn that user-provided content may be transmitted off-platform. In a translation context, text commonly contains sensitive business or personal data, so omission of a disclosure or consent checkpoint raises data-handling risk.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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