news-for-ai

• Outcome: Pass
• Latest audit: May 28, 2026 · 11:42 AM UTC
• Version: 1.0.1

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

Vulnerability Patterns

• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
• Trigger Abuse: Overly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive 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: The dependency is specified with a lower bound only, which allows installation of any future version, including versions with breaking changes or newly introduced vulnerabilities. In a network-facing news-fetching skill that relies on HTTP libraries, this weakens supply-chain control and makes builds non-reproducible.

Unpinned Dependencies

Low

• Category: Supply Chain

Content

requests>=2.28.0
beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0
urllib3>=1.26.0

• Confidence: 89% confidence
• Finding: beautifulsoup4 is also unpinned, so deployments may resolve to different versions over time. While this package is less security-sensitive than an HTTP client, unpinned parsing dependencies still create supply-chain and reproducibility risk.

Unpinned Dependencies

Low

• Category: Supply Chain

Content

requests>=2.28.0
beautifulsoup4>=4.11.0
urllib3>=1.26.0

• Confidence: 95% confidence
• Finding: urllib3 is unpinned and is a security-critical transport dependency. Allowing any version above a minimum can pull in vulnerable or behavior-changing releases, which is particularly risky for a skill that fetches external content over the network.

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: The requirement permits installation of requests versions affected by known advisories, because `>=2.28.0` does not exclude vulnerable releases and does not guarantee a patched one in all environments. In this skill, requests is likely used to fetch external AI news content, so flaws involving credential leakage, redirect handling, or TLS/session verification could expose secrets or enable unsafe outbound 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: The requirement allows vulnerable urllib3 releases, despite multiple listed advisories affecting core HTTP transport behavior. Because this skill retrieves remote content and may process compressed responses or redirects, urllib3 vulnerabilities could lead to denial of service, header leakage, or other network-layer compromise paths.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.