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Jungle Scout

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The Jungle Scout workflow is coherent, but automatic setup executes unverified remote code and leaves broader changes to agent skills insufficiently explained.

Review setup before enabling this skill. Install a verified CLI release yourself and require approval for future installation changes. OOMOL mediates requests and stores the connected provider credentials. To prevent documented startup skill synchronization, upstream provides OO_SKILLS_SYNC_DISABLED=1; see its [command reference](https://github.com/oomol-lab/oo-cli/blob/main/docs/commands.md). The remote installers were unavailable for inspection; no malicious behavior was established in the bundled artifact.

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
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Output HandlingUnvalidated Output Injection, Cross-Context Output, Unbounded Output
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Findings (4)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The supplied command installs or bootstraps software from Oomol rather than searching or reading Jungle Scout data. Nothing in the chunk establishes this installation as a supporting dependency for the declared purpose. The remote script's contents are not supplied, so its further behavior cannot be determined.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

Piping an HTTPS response directly into bash executes whatever the installation endpoint returns, without a pinned version or independent integrity verification. Compromise of the distribution endpoint could therefore lead to arbitrary code execution and access to local data or credentials; the endpoint's documented role as the CLI distributor explains its use but does not eliminate this supply-chain risk.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 60)May include surrounding context.

Fallback setup executes remote installation scripts without a system-integrity warning.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The fallback instructs the agent to execute downloaded shell or PowerShell code without a verification step or explicit approval for installing software. Restricting this to a missing-CLI error reduces exposure, but a compromised installer source could still execute arbitrary code with the invoking user's permissions; the missing warning alone is not the core vulnerability.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Autonomous Decision Making

Medium
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
80% confidence
Finding

Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 81)May include surrounding context.

md
- **`OOMOL_INSUFFICIENT_CREDIT`** — OOMOL billing stop. Recharge at `https://console.oomol.com/billing/token-recharge` before retrying.

- **HTTP 402 without `OOMOL_INSUFFICIENT_CREDIT`** — the third-party account itself has no active plan or credit. Report the provider error message as is; do not ask the user to recharge OOMOL.

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