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Security audit

adobe-after-effects-integrations

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The verdict is benign with medium confidence: scanners found no AIG issues and the only reported concern was a low-confidence persistence-pattern match in documentation, while some reference checks were incomplete.

The verdict is benign, but confidence is medium. Consider that Skillspector could not resolve several references, leaving part of the evidence incomplete; review the skill's guidance on enabling CEP debugging settings and decide whether those settings fit your use before installing.

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
  • Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
  • 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)

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/cep.md (reported line 145)May include surrounding context.

Unsigned extensions load only in debug mode, set per CEP version:

bat
reg add "HKCU\Software\Adobe\CSXS.12" /v PlayerDebugMode /t REG_SZ /d 1 /f
bash

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/cep.md (reported line 149)May include surrounding context.

text

```bash
defaults write com.adobe.CSXS.12 PlayerDebugMode 1
killall cfprefsd   # macOS caches the plist until this, or a log out

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.

Content

Scanner excerpt · references/cep.md (reported line 150)May include surrounding context.

bash
defaults write com.adobe.CSXS.12 PlayerDebugMode 1
killall cfprefsd   # macOS caches the plist until this, or a log out

A .debug file in the extension root opens Chrome DevTools on a port between