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Cctv News Fetcher 1.0.0

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to run a simple local crawler for public CCTV news pages, with some transparency and hygiene issues but no evidence of credential theft, persistence, destructive actions, or unrelated data access.

Install only if you are comfortable with the agent running the included JavaScript crawler and making outbound requests to CCTV/CNTV. Prefer installing dependencies from the included lockfile, and consider removing the static Cookie header before use if you want cleaner outbound request behavior.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Lp3

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs the agent to execute a local script that fetches CCTV news content, which implies outbound network access, but the skill does not declare any corresponding permission. This creates a transparency and policy-enforcement gap: reviewers and runtime controls may underestimate the skill's capabilities, and the agent could access external resources without explicit approval boundaries.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The script includes and transmits a hard-coded Cookie header on every request to tv.cctv.com. Hard-coded cookies embed opaque session or tracking state in code, create undisclosed outbound identifier leakage, and may expose a stale but still valid token or normalize covert request fingerprinting without user awareness. In this skill context, the cookie is not necessary to fulfill the stated purpose of fetching public news, which makes the behavior more suspicious than a routine compatibility header.

Unpinned Dependencies

Low
Category
Supply Chain
Content
"description": "Fetch news from CCTV",
    "main": "scripts/news_crawler.js",
    "dependencies": {
        "node-html-parser": "^7.0.2"
    }
}
Confidence
85% confidence
Finding
"node-html-parser": "^7.0.2"

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.