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Security audit

Quentn

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

Quentn changes require approval, but the CLI setup can introduce persistent changes to your agent environment that this skill does not explain.

Review the CLI installation and its automatic skill management before proceeding. Use a verified CLI release and, if you want to prevent startup changes to agent skills, set OO_SKILLS_SYNC_DISABLED=1 before invoking oo, as documented in the [CLI controls](https://github.com/oomol-lab/oo-cli/blob/main/docs/commands.md#environment-variables). Quentn writes and deletions already require approval. The remote installer contents and resulting binary were not verified; 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
98% confidence
Finding

The supplied command installs external software rather than performing any visible Quentn operation. Installation could be a supporting implementation detail if its relationship to Quentn were established, but none is shown here. The downloaded script's contents and subsequent effects cannot be determined from this chunk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

Piping the HTTPS installer directly into bash executes mutable remote content without verifying its integrity or provenance. HTTPS protects transport but does not prevent a compromised publishing account or installer host from serving malicious code that could access local files and credentials; this is the same underlying installation risk as SQP-2.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 69)May include surrounding context.

Setup instructs execution of remote installation scripts without warning about the system-integrity risk.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The setup directs the agent to execute remotely downloaded shell or PowerShell code without an integrity check or explicit approval for installing software. Although this is a legitimate prerequisite and only triggered when the CLI is missing, compromise of the installer delivery chain could execute arbitrary code with the invoking user's permissions.

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 90)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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