T08 · Insecure Dependencies
Warning
- Location
SKILL.md:55- Finding
Unpinned and Unnecessary Third-Party Dependencies
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Security audit
Financial Analyzer
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
Overview
The skill is a local financial-analysis tool, but its financial health scoring has under-disclosed assumptions and its install command adds unnecessary supply-chain risk.
Install only after reviewing the financial-method limitations. Treat generated scores as rough calculations, not investment advice, and remove or pin the unused dependency install command before use in a sensitive environment.
Vulnerability Patterns
- Insecure DependenciesIntroduces malicious components through unsafe dependency sources
- 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
Findings (1)
Vulnerability Patterns
- 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
- Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)
Intent-Code Divergence
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 93% confidence
- Finding
The Piotroski F-Score implementation claims to evaluate all 9 criteria but unconditionally marks three criteria as passed by assumption. This produces misleadingly optimistic health scores and can bias downstream risk and investment conclusions, which is especially dangerous in a financial analysis skill because users may treat these outputs as evidence-based assessments.
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Intent-Code Divergence
Medium
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 99% confidence
- Finding
The risk assessment function calls nonexistent methods on the FinancialStatements object (
fs.debt_to_equity(...)andfs.interest_coverage(...)) instead of evaluating computed values. In practice this will raise an exception during analysis, causing denial of service for any caller that reaches this path and preventing delivery of risk results in a finance-focused tool where users may rely on the output for decisions.- Content
Natural-Language Policy Violations
Low
- Category
- Not specified by scanner
- Confidence
- 89% confidence
- Finding
The analyzer initializes with a hard-coded default currency of "CNY", which imposes a specific locale convention unless the caller overrides it. The file does not indicate that this China-specific default is intentional or region-scoped, so it can conflict with language/locale policy expectations for neutral defaults or user choice.
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