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Security audit

CSO / Chief Strategy Officer

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is mostly static business guidance, but it includes operational security incident playbooks that are broader and higher-impact than its Chief Strategy Officer description makes clear.

Review the security incident-response material before installing. This skill appears non-executable, but an agent using it should treat credential resets, session revocation, network blocking, system isolation, breach notification, and ransom decisions as human-approved actions requiring legal/security leadership review.

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
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • 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
Findings (4)

Sudo/Root Execution

Medium
Category
Privilege Escalation
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Content

Scanner excerpt · audits.md (reported line 23)May include surrounding context.

md
- [ ] Firewall rules explicit (deny by default)
- [ ] Automatic security updates enabled
- [ ] Root login disabled
- [ ] Regular user with sudo for admin tasks

## Container Security

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The manifest describes a Chief Strategy Officer skill focused on competitive analysis, strategic planning, growth roadmaps, and business portfolio management. This file instead contains operational cybersecurity incident response procedures, including breach handling, ransomware response, and regulatory notification steps, which are materially different from strategy leadership activities.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The file provides detailed operational guidance for triage, containment, credential revocation, ransomware response, DDoS mitigation, and breach notification. Those are specialized incident response capabilities that are not obviously required for a skill whose stated purpose is business strategy, competitive analysis, and portfolio management.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding

The ransomware playbook says 'Do NOT pay ransom (yet),' which weakens the safety guidance and can be read as keeping payment on the table without clear executive/legal controls. In a generic playbook, that ambiguity can pressure responders toward a harmful, legally risky, or counterproductive payment decision during a crisis.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.