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Security audit

Data Analysis 1

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a coherent data-analysis guidance skill with no executable code, network endpoints, persistence, or hidden privilege behavior found.

This skill appears safe to install as a data-analysis reference aid. Users should still review any separate SQL queries, scripts, spreadsheet automations, or related skills they ask an agent to run, because those user-directed actions may access or transform sensitive data even though this skill itself does not add persistence or external data sharing.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
  • 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)

Self-Modification

High
Category
Rogue Agent
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 152)May include surrounding context.

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- Store credentials or raw exports in hidden local memory files.
- Create or depend on local folder systems for persistence.
- Create automations or background jobs without explicit user confirmation.
- Rewrite its own instruction source files.

## Related Skills
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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.