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Security audit

Panjiva

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The Panjiva workflow has sensible approval rules, but its setup can run unverified installation code and introduce persistent agent skills without explaining those effects.

Review the CLI installation separately and disable unwanted startup skill synchronization before using it. Panjiva requests pass through OOMOL, so connect only the intended account and review write payloads. The scanner's two missing-reference gaps are a version string and a JSON response example, not missing executable files. The package contains only the inspected Markdown; remote installer contents and hosted connector behavior remain unverified. No malicious behavior was established.

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
90% confidence
Finding

The supplied chunk only runs an Oomol CLI installer; it contains no Panjiva integration or data operations. Dependency installation can be a supporting implementation detail, but this chunk does not establish that relationship. The remote installer's contents and any additional 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
97% confidence
Finding

Piping a remotely fetched script directly into Bash executes its current contents without a pinned version or independent integrity verification. If the distribution endpoint or its publishing pipeline is compromised, that code could access files and credentials or modify the environment with the invoking user's privileges; HTTPS alone does not prevent this supply-chain scenario.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 73)May include surrounding context.

Fallback setup executes remote installer scripts without warning about their system-level effects.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The fallback directs installation through downloaded shell or PowerShell code without explaining its potential local effects or requiring explicit approval. Restricting this behavior to a missing-CLI error reduces exposure, but a normal prerequisite failure can still lead to executing code outside the requested Panjiva 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 94)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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