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Security audit

OpenClaw Release CI

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

ClawScan marks this skill suspicious because a scanner found a release validation description paired with a request to publish packages; that request does not prove publication succeeded.

Review the skill’s publication behavior and confirm that requesting package and plugin publication fits your needs before installing. Treat the verdict as a caution: scanners did not confirm a completed publication, and some referenced paths were unresolved, leaving the evidence incomplete.

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
  • 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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (2)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

Although invoking full-release CI fits the description, the explicit validation_purpose=publish setting and publication selection enabling npm and plugin publishing introduce a consequential capability not disclosed by the validation-oriented description. The chunk shows a publication request; it does not establish that publication ultimately succeeds.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 631)May include surrounding context.

md
the read-only OIDC preflight also uses `npm-publish` and requires that tag.
  Artifact-only preflights keep their existing refs and have no environment.
- Never approve a `plugin-clawhub-release.yml` child by hand. It is
  receipt-verified on the bot route and needs no approval. The
  `Artifact not found` line for `openclaw-clawhub-recovery-approval-<run>-1`
  is a non-fatal probe. A late human approval fails at `Revalidate trusted tooling identity`
  with `parent state completed/failure is not allowed by authorization route`