Amazon Paapi

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward Amazon Product Advertising API helper, but users should handle the required Amazon API credentials more carefully than the setup text suggests.

Before installing, treat the Amazon access key and secret key as sensitive. Prefer a credential manager or protected environment configuration, restrict any local `.env` file permissions, and avoid committing or syncing it. Also expect this version to provide only the declared `ama-api` lookup command, despite documentation mentioning additional tracker commands.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Confidence: 96% confidence
Finding: The setup instructs users to append Amazon access and secret keys into a plain-text ~/.env file without any warning about file permissions, secret managers, or shell-history exposure. This increases the chance that long-lived API credentials are disclosed through local compromise, backups, dotfile syncing, or accidental sharing.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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