T03 · Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution
- Location
SKILL.md:14- Finding
Remote Installer Is Downloaded and Executed Without Prior Verification
- Content
View full analysis
- Remediation
View remediation
Security audit
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
The skill is mostly email-design guidance, but its primary setup path asks users to execute a remote installer in their shell and recommends unpinned external skill installs.
Review the installer and related skill sources before running these commands. Prefer a separately downloaded, inspected, version-pinned, and checksum-verified installer, and avoid running the `npx skills add` examples unless you trust the current upstream packages and skills.
SKILL.md:14Remote Installer Is Downloaded and Executed Without Prior Verification
SKILL.md:235Unpinned npx Package and Remote Skill Dependencies Create Supply-Chain Risk
This is a concrete external-script execution pattern: curl -fsSL https://cli.inference.sh | sh. It creates an immediate remote code execution path in the user's shell session, and the skill context makes it more dangerous because it is presented as the quick-start installation command, increasing the chance that users will run it without scrutiny.
curl -fsSL https://cli.inference.sh | sh && infsh login
# Generate email header banner
infsh app run infsh/html-to-image --input '{
The manifest description lists generic triggers such as "email template," "email marketing," and "email campaign" without clear activation boundaries or exclusion conditions. These phrases are broad enough to overlap with many general marketing-help requests, increasing the chance of unintended invocation.
The skill instructs users to pipe a remote script directly into sh, which executes downloaded code without a prior inspection step. Even though the note claims checksum verification, users must trust the remote server and bootstrap script entirely; if that endpoint, CDN path, or TLS trust chain is compromised, arbitrary code execution on the user's machine can result.
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
No suspicious patterns detected.