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Security audit

MailGenius

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The MailGenius workflow is reasonable, but its setup can execute unverified code and introduce broader changes to your agents without clearly explaining them.

Review and approve CLI installation separately, using a verified release. OOMOL intermediates your MailGenius account access. If you only want MailGenius operations, disable startup skill synchronization with OO_SKILLS_SYNC_DISABLED=1, as documented in the [CLI environment settings](https://github.com/oomol-lab/oo-cli/blob/main/docs/commands.md#environment-variables). The downloaded installers and hosted connector were not verified; the review concerns are setup control and under-disclosed agent changes.

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
97% confidence
Finding

The supplied command executes an external installer, with no visible connection to MailGenius or its data operations. Nothing in the provided content establishes this installation as a supporting dependency for the declared purpose. The remote script's contents are not supplied, so its further effects cannot be assessed.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The command pipes a mutable remote installer directly into Bash without a pinned version, signature check, or independently verified digest; the PowerShell alternative has the same trust issue. Compromise of the installer distribution path could execute attacker-controlled code with the invoking user's privileges, although the documented prerequisite context provides no evidence of deliberate malicious intent.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 58)May include surrounding context.

The setup workflow executes remote installation scripts without warning about local code execution and system changes.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The fallback directs installation through remote scripts without explaining that they execute local code and may modify the system, or requiring explicit installation approval. Although setup runs only when the CLI is missing, an ordinary MailGenius request can therefore lead to local code execution beyond the user's requested service operation.

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 79)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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