Pronunciation Coach

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This appears to be a legitimate pronunciation coach, but it deserves review because it sends voice recordings to SenseAudio, stores detailed progress locally, and uses shell examples that can mishandle user-supplied practice text.

Install only if you are comfortable using a SenseAudio API key and sending practice text and voice recordings to SenseAudio. Use non-sensitive phrases, run it in a private folder, delete pronunciation_progress.json when no longer needed, and have the agent build request JSON safely instead of pasting raw user text into shell commands.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Low
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs saving detailed pronunciation session history, including practice text, accuracy, and error patterns, to a local file. While useful for coaching, this creates persistent user profiling without any explicit consent, retention limit, or access control guidance, which increases privacy risk if the host environment is shared, synced, or later inspected.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The skill directs the agent to save user practice data locally without warning the user or requesting consent. Because the stored data includes behavioral performance information across sessions, this can silently create a longitudinal record of the user's speech practice and weaknesses, which is a privacy issue beyond the immediate session purpose.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
When the user uploads their recording:

```bash
curl -s -X POST https://api.senseaudio.cn/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENSEAUDIO_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@<USER_RECORDING>" \
  -F "model=sense-asr-pro" \
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
https://api.senseaudio.cn/

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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