Cisco IOSXE Hardening

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026 at 8:33 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This skill is a disclosed API for drafting Cisco IOS XE hardening configurations, with no local code execution or automatic device changes.

Install only if you are comfortable sending request metadata and selected hardening options to the external API. Use non-sensitive session identifiers, omit userId unless needed, and validate generated IOS XE configuration in a lab with rollback and change-control before applying it to production devices.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 87% confidence
• Finding: The skill describes generation of security-hardening configurations but does not prominently warn that applying generated IOS XE changes can disrupt management access, routing, AAA, or other device behavior if not validated. In a network infrastructure context, omission of this caution can lead users to overtrust generated output and deploy unsafe or incompatible configurations directly to production devices.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.