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news-for-ai

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a straightforward AI-news fetching skill with ordinary network scraping behavior and some dependency hygiene concerns, but no hidden local data access, persistence, or destructive behavior.

Install in a virtual environment and consider pinning or locking the Python dependencies before production use. Be aware that search terms and fetched article requests go to AIBase domains. The reviewed artifacts do not show local data collection, credential use, persistence, or destructive actions.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • 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
Findings (6)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
76% confidence
Finding
The trigger text includes broad natural-language examples such as general requests for new AI developments, which can cause the skill to activate on loosely related queries beyond a narrowly defined scope. Over-broad invocation increases the chance of unintended network calls, data exposure to external services, or routing users into this skill when another safer or more appropriate tool should handle the request.

Unpinned Dependencies

Low
Category
Supply Chain
Content
requests>=2.28.0
beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0
urllib3>=1.26.0
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
requests>=2.28.0

Unpinned Dependencies

Low
Category
Supply Chain
Content
requests>=2.28.0
beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0
urllib3>=1.26.0
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding
beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0

Unpinned Dependencies

Low
Category
Supply Chain
Content
requests>=2.28.0
beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0
urllib3>=1.26.0
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
urllib3>=1.26.0

Known Vulnerable Dependency: requests — 10 advisory(ies): CVE-2014-1830 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Requests); CVE-2024-47081 (Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs); CVE-2024-35195 (Requests `Session` object does not verify requests after making first request wi) +7 more

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
requests

Known Vulnerable Dependency: urllib3 — 10 advisory(ies): CVE-2025-66471 (urllib3 streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data); CVE-2024-37891 (urllib3's Proxy-Authorization request header isn't stripped during cross-origin ); CVE-2026-21441 (Decompression-bomb safeguards bypassed when following HTTP redirects (streaming ) +7 more

High
Category
Supply Chain
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding
urllib3

VirusTotal

66/66 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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