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Security audit

Nozbe

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The Nozbe workflow requires approval for changes, but its automatic setup executes unverified remote code and under-discloses broader installation effects.

Review and install a version-pinned CLI separately, and instruct the agent to stop if it is missing. Check the CLI's bundled-skill installation and synchronization settings before use. Connect only the intended Nozbe account and retain approval for changes and deletions. The remote installers and hosted connector implementation remain unverified.

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
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Findings (3)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The only supplied command runs an Oomol-hosted installer, rather than accessing or managing Nozbe data. Although dependency installation can be a supporting implementation detail, this chunk provides no evidence connecting the installer to Nozbe. The remote script's contents and further effects cannot be determined from the supplied code.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

The setup instructions pipe a mutable remote script directly into Bash without version pinning, integrity verification, or review; the PowerShell alternative has the same problem. If the distribution endpoint or delivery chain is compromised, this executes attacker-controlled code with the agent process's local permissions, potentially exposing files and credentials. The legitimate dependency and missing-CLI prerequisite limit when this occurs but do not make the execution safe.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 70)May include surrounding context.

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 91)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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