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PhotoCHAT Photo Search

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a disclosed helper for searching a local PhotoCHAT photo library, with privacy cautions around broad triggers, file paths, and date parsing.

Install only if you are comfortable letting the agent search your local PhotoCHAT library and show returned file paths or images. Be explicit when you want web image search instead of local PhotoCHAT search, and clarify dates if DD/MM format is not intended.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (2)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The trigger phrases are broad enough to match ordinary user requests for images, which can cause the skill to activate outside its intended scope. In an agentic environment, overly broad routing can lead to unintended command execution, unnecessary access to a user's photo library, and privacy-sensitive file path disclosure when the user did not explicitly ask to use PhotoCHAT.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
85% confidence
Finding
Mandating '--day-first' for all searches imposes a regional date interpretation that may silently alter user intent for ambiguous dates. While this is not a direct code-execution issue, it can produce incorrect search results and unexpected retrieval of personal photos from the wrong time period, which is a privacy and integrity concern in a photo-search skill.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.