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Security audit

Tom Video Understanding

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a small instruction-only video analysis skill whose local processing steps are coherent, with an optional cloud summary step users should treat carefully.

Before installing, use the local ffmpeg/FunASR/Ollama workflow for private videos. Only use the optional cloud summary step after choosing and trusting the provider, because transcripts, frame descriptions, or summaries could leave your machine.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The skill is presented as a local video-understanding workflow, but it explicitly allows a cloud LLM API for summary and analysis. That can cause users to send transcriptions, frame descriptions, or other potentially sensitive video-derived content off-device under a misleading 'local' trust assumption.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
79% confidence
Finding
The invocation guidance, 'use this skill when you need to understand the content of a video,' is broad enough that an agent may invoke it in many loosely related situations. Over-broad triggering can lead to unnecessary processing of user videos and extracted media, increasing privacy exposure and accidental use without clear user intent.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The skill mentions cloud LLM usage for summary/analysis but does not provide a clear user-facing warning that video-derived data may be transmitted to an external service. This creates a privacy and compliance risk because users may reasonably expect all processing to remain local based on the skill description.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.