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coin-news-openclaw

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a transparent crypto-news collector that fetches public feeds and caches token names locally, with no evidence of credential access, exfiltration, or destructive behavior.

Use this for on-demand crypto-news digests if you are comfortable with public network requests to the listed news sites and CoinGecko. For deterministic or read-only runs, review sources.yaml and run the helper with --no-dynamic-tokens so it does not refresh the local token cache.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • 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)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly instructs the agent to read local files, run a Python script, use network access to fetch news, and write cached dynamic token data back into configuration, yet no permissions are declared. This creates a capability/permission mismatch that can lead to over-privileged or unreviewed execution paths, making it harder for operators to understand and constrain file and network access.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding
The script persists runtime-fetched CoinGecko token data back into scoring.yaml, which changes local configuration state during normal execution. That creates an unexpected side effect for a news-fetching skill and allows untrusted remote data to influence future runs, potentially poisoning scoring behavior or causing configuration drift.

VirusTotal

56/56 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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