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Security audit

Wolfram|Alpha

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The Wolfram|Alpha workflow is coherent, but its automatic setup allows unchecked software execution and broader agent changes than the skill explains.

Review the setup before enabling this skill. Prefer a reviewed, pinned CLI installation and decide whether to allow its additional agent skills; the CLI documents OO_SKILLS_SYNC_DISABLED to disable startup synchronization. Queries pass through OOMOL and may incur charges. The remote installers and hosted connector 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
  • 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
99% confidence
Finding

The supplied command runs an Oomol-hosted installer, not a Wolfram|Alpha search or data-reading operation. Nothing in the supplied code establishes that this installation supports the declared purpose. The downloaded script's contents and further effects are not provided, but downloading and executing it is directly observable and materially different from the described behavior.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

Authentication could be a supporting implementation detail if it were demonstrably associated with the declared service. Here, the entire supplied implementation is an authentication command for an unidentified CLI, with no evidence connecting it to Wolfram|Alpha. Its observable purpose therefore differs materially from the declared search-and-read functionality.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Script Fetching

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding

The curl-to-bash pipeline executes whatever script the remote endpoint currently returns, without pinning or authenticating a specific release artifact. Although installing the CLI supports the documented workflow, compromise of its distribution infrastructure could turn a routine setup action into arbitrary code execution and expose local files or credentials.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 57)May include surrounding context.

Automatic CLI setup executes downloaded scripts without a system-integrity warning.

Medium
Category
Output Handling
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

When the CLI is missing, the setup instructions direct immediate execution of remote shell or PowerShell scripts without explicit installation approval or artifact verification. A compromised distribution endpoint or installer could execute arbitrary code with the invoking user's privileges; the error-gated fallback reduces exposure but does not remove this risk.

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 78)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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