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Explainer Video Guide

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is a coherent explainer-video guide, but it directs users to run an unverified internet installer and unpinned install commands that deserve review before use.

Install only if you trust inference.sh and are comfortable reviewing setup commands yourself. Prefer downloading and verifying a pinned CLI release before execution, separate installation from login, and avoid running the unpinned npx related-skill commands unless you can verify the exact package and skill versions.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Insecure DependenciesIntroduces malicious components through unsafe dependency sources
  • 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
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
Findings (2)

T03 · Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution

Error
Location
SKILL.md:14
Finding

Remote Installer Is Downloaded and Executed Without Prior Verification

Content
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Remediation
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" printf '%s %s\n' "" "infsh" | sha256sum --check - chmod 0755 infsh ./infsh login ``` The release URL and digest must be pinned to the same reviewed version. Users should also be encouraged to inspect provenance and signatures before execution. ]]>

T08 · Insecure Dependencies

Warning
Location
SKILL.md:228
Finding

Related Skills Are Installed Through Unpinned Third-Party References

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Remediation
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add ... ``` 2. Use npm lockfiles and integrity metadata where the workflow supports them. 3. Pin each related Skill to an immutable commit hash or content digest rather than a mutable branch, tag, or current repository state. 4. Verify the publisher, repository provenance, signatures, and checksums before installation. 5. Review downloaded Skill contents and any included scripts before enabling them. 6. Avoid automatic execution of lifecycle scripts where possible, such as by using installation modes that disable scripts until they have been reviewed. 7. Document the exact expected package version, commit identifiers, and integrity values in `SKILL.md`. 8. Treat updates as new dependencies requiring a fresh security review rather than silently following upstream changes. ]]>
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (6)

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

The guide instructs users to pipe a remote script directly into sh via curl -fsSL https://cli.inference.sh | sh, which executes network-fetched code without prior inspection. If the server, CDN, DNS, TLS termination, or publishing pipeline is compromised, attackers can achieve immediate arbitrary code execution on the user's system.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 14)May include surrounding context.

Quick Start

bash
curl -fsSL https://cli.inference.sh | sh && infsh login

# Generate a scene for an explainer
infsh app run google/veo-3-1-fast --input '{

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The trigger list contains broad phrases like 'video production', 'video script', and 'tutorial video', which are common in normal user conversations and can cause the skill to activate unexpectedly. Over-broad activation increases the chance that users are steered into executing the skill's tool-enabled workflow, including risky shell commands, when they did not explicitly request it.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill recommends running npx skills add ... without pinning an exact package version, which can pull whatever version is current at execution time. This creates a supply-chain risk: a compromised publisher account, typosquatted dependency, or newly introduced malicious version could execute arbitrary code on the user's machine.

Content

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Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

This unpinned npx skills add ... invocation depends on the latest package state at runtime rather than a reviewed, immutable version. If the package or one of its install-time behaviors changes maliciously, users may execute attacker-controlled code simply by following the guide.

Content

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Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

Because npx will fetch and execute package code, leaving the package version unpinned makes the command non-reproducible and vulnerable to upstream compromise. In a skill intended for broad reuse, this increases exposure because many users may copy-paste the command without reviewing what gets executed.

Content

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Rp1

Medium
Category
MCP Rug Pull
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The command references a mutable package name through npx with no version constraint, so future package changes can silently alter what code runs. That is a real supply-chain hazard even if the current package is legitimate, because installation-time scripts and transitive dependencies may execute.

Content

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.