super-search

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a disclosed web-search helper that sends search terms to Tavily and sometimes Brave, with privacy caveats but no evidence of hidden or destructive behavior.

Install only if you are comfortable sending search queries and selected result URLs to Tavily, Brave, and fetched websites. Use your own limited-scope API keys, avoid sensitive personal, medical, financial, or confidential searches, and note that local searches default to São Lourenço, Minas Gerais, Brazil when no location is supplied.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (5)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
98% confidence
Finding
The trigger activates on any message containing the common word "buscar," making accidental invocation very likely in normal conversation. In this skill, activation can immediately lead to external searches and content fetching, so an overly broad trigger increases the chance of unintended data transmission to third-party services.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly sends user queries to Tavily and Brave and fetches full content from third-party pages, but it does not warn users that their input will leave the local system. This creates a privacy risk because users may include names, locations, or sensitive context in requests without realizing that the data will be shared externally.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
### Tavily (principal)
```bash
curl -s "https://api.tavily.com/search" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "api_key": "'$TAVILY_API_KEY'",
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
curl -s "https://api.tavily.com/search" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
### Tavily (principal)
```bash
curl -s "https://api.tavily.com/search" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "api_key": "'$TAVILY_API_KEY'",
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
https://api.tavily.com/

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
### Brave (backup)
```bash
curl -s "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=TERMO&count=5" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY"
```
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
https://api.search.brave.com/

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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