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Security audit

Sector Opening Note

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is a simple public-news market brief, but it unnecessarily requests memory-write access without explaining any persistence feature.

Install only if you are comfortable granting this skill memory-write capability despite no stated need for persistence. A safer version would remove memory_write or clearly explain exactly what is saved and require explicit user consent before saving anything.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • 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)

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Medium
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding
The skill requests `memory_write` even though its documented function is limited to public web search and generating a transient daily market brief. Unnecessary write access violates least privilege and could allow persistence of user data, prompts, or derived market context without a clear business need, increasing privacy and integrity risk if the skill is misused or compromised.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.