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Security audit

Nimble

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The Nimble features are appropriately controlled, but the required CLI can install skills into other agents without this skill explaining those lasting changes.

Review the CLI's broader effects before enabling this skill. Install a verified CLI release yourself and disable automatic skill synchronization if you do not want other agents changed; the [command reference](https://github.com/oomol-lab/oo-cli/blob/main/docs/commands.md) documents OO_SKILLS_SYNC_DISABLED. Connecting Nimble also means trusting OOMOL with contact operations and credentials. The current installer and installed runtime were not verified.

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
95% confidence
Finding

The supplied chunk performs remote software installation rather than reading, creating, or updating Nimble data. Dependency installation can be a supporting implementation detail, but nothing supplied establishes that the Oomol installer supports this Nimble skill. The remote script's contents are unavailable, so its further behavior cannot be assessed.

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 mutable remote content without checking a pinned version, signature, or digest. Although the endpoint is consistent with the documented CLI dependency and there is no evidence of malicious intent, compromise of that endpoint could expose local files and credentials or enable persistent code execution.

Content

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

Fallback setup instructs execution of remote installation scripts without a system-integrity warning.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The fallback instructs direct execution of downloaded shell or PowerShell code without verification or explicit approval for local software installation. A compromised installer endpoint or delivery pipeline could execute arbitrary code with the invoking user's privileges; restricting this to first-time setup reduces exposure but does not eliminate it.

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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