Smart Cron

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

Smart Cron is a disclosed automation scheduler whose main risks come from expected recurring execution and optional messaging alerts, not hidden or malicious behavior.

Install only if you want OpenClaw tasks to run unattended on a schedule. Review each scheduled task carefully, avoid putting secrets in task names or prompts, confirm alert channels are private, and periodically remove jobs you no longer need.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
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 (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Confidence: 93% confidence
Finding: The skill advertises failure alerts over WhatsApp/Telegram but does not warn that task names, timing, error messages, and possibly other operational metadata may be transmitted to third-party messaging services. In this context, scheduled tasks can contain sensitive business or personal content, so silent external sharing increases privacy and data-leakage risk.

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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