Faster Whisper Local

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to be a straightforward local audio transcription tool with disclosed setup and local output behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable running a local setup script that downloads Python packages and speech models. Review setup.sh first in sensitive environments, run it without elevated privileges, and remember that audio and transcripts may contain private information even though this skill’s provided code keeps processing local.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
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 (1)

Lp3

Medium

Category: MCP Least Privilege
Confidence: 90% confidence
Finding: The skill invokes shell commands and performs file-writing behavior via `./setup.sh` and `./scripts/transcribe`, but it does not declare any permissions to reflect those capabilities. This creates a trust and review gap: users or orchestration systems may treat the skill as lower-risk than it is, even though setup and transcription workflows can modify the filesystem and execute local commands.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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