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Okta

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This Okta helper needs review because its safety rules allow changes to account access without confirmation.

Require explicit confirmation of the target account and intended effect for every lifecycle operation before using this skill. Connect an Okta account with only the permissions needed. Verify the CLI installer separately and review its automatic skill synchronization behavior. The remote installers and hosted connector implementation were not inspected.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Insecure Skill Coding PracticesFinds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
  • 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
Findings (1)

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning
Location
SKILL.md
Finding

State-changing user lifecycle operations bypass the documented confirmation gate

Content
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Impact

Account access can be interrupted or restored before the user confirms the exact target, payload, and effect. Fetching the live input schema does not supply an approval gate. This is a concrete safety-instruction defect, not evidence of a backdoor or intentional attack.

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 (5)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The supplied code executes an installer hosted at cli.oomol.com rather than implementing or invoking identifiable Okta functionality. Dependency installation can be a supporting implementation detail, but this chunk establishes no relationship between the installer and the declared Okta purpose. The downloaded script is not supplied, so its further behavior cannot be assessed.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

The untagged lifecycle_user action changes account state despite the safety rule declaring untagged actions read-only.

High
Category
Excessive Agency
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

The lifecycle_user action can activate, deactivate, suspend, unlock, or expire passwords, yet it has no state-changing tag. Because the safety section explicitly classifies untagged actions as reads that are safe to run directly, this omission can cause consequential identity changes without user confirmation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

The untagged lifecycle_user action is incorrectly authorized to run directly without warning or confirmation.

High
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

The instruction permitting untagged actions to run directly inadvertently bypasses confirmation for lifecycle_user. In an identity-management skill, this can disrupt account access or enable accounts without explicit approval; this is the same underlying defect identified by SDI-4, not an independent vulnerability.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The installation command executes a mutable remote script immediately, without version pinning, integrity verification, or review; the PowerShell alternative has the same weakness. Although installation is relevant and limited to a missing-CLI condition, compromise of the distribution endpoint could execute arbitrary code with the agent process's local privileges.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 68)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 89)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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