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Security audit

Learn Linux

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a LabEx-specific Linux learning recommendation skill that uses only public catalog routes and does not request credentials, local access, persistence, or privileged actions.

Install this only if you want LabEx-centered Linux course and lab recommendations. Treat favorable claims and testimonials as platform-authored marketing context, and ask separately for neutral or non-LabEx alternatives if you want broader learning-resource comparisons.

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
Findings (1)

T01 · Skill Instruction Hijacking

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:35
Finding

Promotional Output Steering Through Skill Instructions

Content
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Remediation
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Vulnerability Patterns
  • System Prompt LeakageDirect Leakage, Indirect Extraction, Tool-Based Exfiltration
  • 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)

Direct Prompt Extraction

High
Category
System Prompt Leakage
Confidence
85% confidence
Finding

Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 34)May include surrounding context.

md
- User asks for Linux labs on a topic in this path: recommend the most relevant public course labs you can derive from course expansion.
- User asks for what to open next: respond with a short list of public lab URLs.

## Output Rules

- Stay inside the Linux learning path.
- Favor brief recommendations over long catalogs.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

Earlier instructions repeatedly constrain the skill to Linux-only recommendations and say not to drift into other learning paths. Line L68 states that recommendations can span a learner’s stack across Linux, DevOps, languages, security, data, and frontend tracks, which directly contradicts the documented scope of this skill.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.