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Security audit

Claw Tavily Search Pro

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This Tavily search skill is coherent and only sends search queries or URLs to Tavily when the user invokes it.

Install this only if you are comfortable sending search queries, URLs you ask to extract, and your Tavily API key to Tavily's API. The reviewed artifact showed no hidden persistence or unrelated local data access.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (6)

Undeclared Tool Scope

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

The skill invokes Node scripts that require environment access (TAVILY_API_KEY) and make outbound network requests, but it does not declare an explicit tool scope such as permissions or allowed-tools. This creates a least-privilege and transparency problem: hosting agents may grant broader capabilities than intended, making misuse of secrets or unrestricted network access harder to constrain.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · scripts/extract.mjs (reported line 24)May include surrounding context.

js
process.exit(1);
}

const resp = await fetch("https://api.tavily.com/extract", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · scripts/extract.mjs (reported line 24)May include surrounding context.

js
process.exit(1);
}

const resp = await fetch("https://api.tavily.com/extract", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
50% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · scripts/search.mjs (reported line 62)May include surrounding context.

js
process.exit(1);
}

const resp = await fetch("https://api.tavily.com/extract", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

This code sends user-supplied URLs and the API key to a third-party service via an HTTP POST request, but there is no user-facing disclosure beyond the generic usage string. For a code file, transmitting user-provided data to an external service without any visible warning or confirmation meets the missing user warning criterion.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Confidence
60% confidence
Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · scripts/search.mjs (reported line 62)May include surrounding context.

js
body.days = days;
}

const resp = await fetch("https://api.tavily.com/search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.