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Security audit

Retently

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

Retently operations have clear safeguards, but automatic setup can execute unverified remote code and introduce broader persistent changes.

Review and install a trusted, verified CLI version yourself before enabling this skill. Check its automatic skill installation and synchronization behavior across your agents. OOMOL mediates access to Retently customer data; review each update payload before approving it. The remote installers and hosted connector implementation 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
  • 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 supplied chunk performs remote installer execution and contains no Retently data operations or evidence linking this installation to Retently functionality. On the supplied evidence, this is a materially different capability rather than an established supporting implementation detail. The downloaded script's contents and further effects cannot be determined from this chunk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The setup instructions pipe a mutable remote script directly into Bash without verifying a pinned artifact or obtaining explicit installation approval; the PowerShell alternative similarly executes downloaded content. If the distribution endpoint or release pipeline is compromised, this can execute attacker-controlled code with the invoking user's permissions, although the missing-CLI condition limits when this path is reached.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 63)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 84)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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