Security audit

Spotify-Linux

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed local Spotify controller for Linux, with proportionate use of Bash, DBus, a bundled launcher, and a stoppable user-level systemd unit.

Install only if you want an agent to control the real Spotify client on your Linux desktop. Expect immediate playback changes and a user-level Spotify process that may continue after the agent finishes until stopped with the documented --stop command. Avoid sharing logs from --check if your proxy URLs contain credentials.

A.I.G

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

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

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
Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (9)

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 62)May include surrounding context.
md
he process is tracked and can be stopped cleanly. Its complete source ships at `scripts/launch_spotify.sh` in this package.

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 64)May include surrounding context.
md
he process is tracked and can be stopped cleanly. Its complete source ships at `scripts/launch_spotify.sh` in this package.

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 301)May include surrounding context.
md
he process is tracked and can be stopped cleanly. Its complete source ships at `scripts/launch_spotify.sh` in this package.

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 342)May include surrounding context.
md
he process is tracked and can be stopped cleanly. Its complete source ships at `scripts/launch_spotify.sh` in this package.

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 347)May include surrounding context.
md
he process is tracked and can be stopped cleanly. Its complete source ships at `scripts/launch_spotify.sh` in this package.

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 64)May include surrounding context.
md
ch_spotify.sh` relative to the skill directory — the directory that holds this `SKILL.md`. An agent's working directory is usually not the skill directory, so a

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 301)May include surrounding context.
md
ch_spotify.sh` relative to the skill directory — the directory that holds this `SKILL.md`. An agent's working directory is usually not the skill directory, so a

Ae1

High

Category: analysis-evasion
Confidence: 100% confidence
Finding: Referenced artifact was not completely inspected
Content: Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 341)May include surrounding context.
md
ch_spotify.sh` relative to the skill directory — the directory that holds this `SKILL.md`. An agent's working directory is usually not the skill directory, so a

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low

Category: Not specified by scanner
Confidence: 78% confidence
Finding: The documentation maps user requests specifically from Chinese phrases like "今日推荐" / "每日推荐" to Spotify Daily Mix behavior. This introduces a language-specific assumption in the skill's natural-language behavior without explicitly stating that other languages are supported or that the user can choose their preferred language.
Content: No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.