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Security audit

Kontent.ai

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

If a required tool is missing, the skill tells your agent to execute downloaded installation code without asking first.

Review setup before use. Preinstall a verified CLI release and prevent the agent from automatically running remote installers. Check whether bundled skill synchronization will change other agent configurations. Connect only the Kontent.ai environment and read permissions you need, and understand that access runs through OOMOL. The listed data operations fit the purpose; the Review verdict concerns setup control and persistent side effects, with no evidence establishing malicious intent.

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
99% confidence
Finding

The supplied command executes an external installation script and contains no Kontent.ai search or read operations. Nothing supplied establishes that this installer supports the declared purpose, and remote script execution introduces behavior outside the stated data-access function. The script's downstream actions cannot be determined from this chunk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The command streams a mutable remote script directly into Bash without a pinned version or independent integrity verification; the PowerShell alternative has the same underlying risk. Compromise of the distribution endpoint could execute arbitrary code with the agent's local permissions, exposing accessible files and credentials. HTTPS and the legitimate dependency context reduce suspicion of malicious intent but do 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 warning about local system changes or third-party code execution.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

When the CLI is missing, the skill directs the agent to install it without first obtaining approval for local software installation and third-party code execution. This crosses the boundary of a request to read Kontent.ai data, although the explicit missing-command condition limits when the behavior is triggered.

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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