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Email Header Analyser

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to be a straightforward email-header analysis API, but submitted headers may go to an external service and can contain sensitive routing and identity details.

Before installing, confirm you are allowed to send email headers to the referenced third-party API service. Redact unnecessary personal addresses, internal hostnames, message IDs, and routing details where possible, and check any organizational policy or retention requirements for incident data.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill encourages users to submit raw email headers to a third-party API without warning that headers often contain sensitive metadata such as internal hostnames, routing paths, message IDs, employee addresses, and authentication results. This creates a privacy and data-governance risk because users may unknowingly transmit organizationally sensitive information outside their environment.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
87% confidence
Finding

The skill references and depends on an external API endpoint, which means submitted email headers will leave the local trust boundary and be transmitted to a third-party service. In the context of email forensics, this is significant because headers commonly expose sensitive infrastructure details and communication metadata, so the danger is not the mere presence of an external URL but the unqualified transmission of potentially sensitive data to it.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 115)May include surrounding context.

md
## References

- Kong Route: https://api.mkkpro.com/security/email-header-analyser
- API Docs: https://api.mkkpro.com:8016/docs

Vague Triggers

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
78% confidence
Finding

This JSON OpenAPI file is a manifest-like interface description, so SQP-1 applies. The operation is described only as "Analyze Header" with no stated trigger phrases, exclusions, or context limits, which leaves unclear when a calling agent should invoke this skill versus other email-related capabilities.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.