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Cronexplain

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

Cronexplain is a local cron-expression helper with no evidence of hidden access, networking, persistence, or privileged behavior.

Safe to install for casual cron explanation. Do not treat its next-run output as authoritative for production scheduling, audits, or maintenance windows unless you verify edge cases with your actual cron implementation.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • 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
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (1)

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The tool computes and prints 'next run' times as if they were authoritative, but its matching logic only approximates cron semantics, especially around day-of-month/day-of-week behavior. In operational or security-sensitive contexts, this can mislead users about when scheduled jobs will execute, causing missed maintenance windows, incorrect audit conclusions, or unsafe scheduling decisions.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.