T08 · Insecure Dependencies
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SKILL.md:74- Finding
Unpinned Third-Party Dependency Installation
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This skill is a disclosed AI image-generation helper that uses an AI Hive API key and user-selected images, with no evidence of hidden persistence, exfiltration, or destructive behavior.
Install only if you are comfortable giving this skill your AI Hive API key, uploading selected reference images to AI Hive/its upload storage, and installing the Python `requests` package. Use a virtual environment and avoid placing private or unlicensed images in prompts or uploads.
SKILL.md:74Unpinned Third-Party Dependency Installation
The skill invokes local Python scripts, installs dependencies, reads user-supplied files, writes outputs, and performs outbound network requests, yet it declares no explicit tool scope or permission boundaries. That creates an authorization gap: an agent may enable broader shell, file, environment, and network capabilities than users expect, increasing the chance of unintended code execution or data exposure through the helper script.
The manifest description says to use this skill for a long list of generic phrases such as Instagram UGC, lifestyle images, e-commerce content marketing, and social media covers, without clearly delimiting when the skill should or should not activate. These terms are broad enough to collide with ordinary image-generation requests, making unintended invocation more likely.
The file is predominantly written as Chinese-only operational guidance and examples, while the skill name and some description text are bilingual, creating an implicit language constraint for use. There is no statement that users may choose another language, nor a documented reason that the skill must operate only in Chinese.
The module docstring and all user-facing prompts/messages are written in Chinese, and the skill does not indicate any option to use another language or that the locale restriction is intentional for a region-specific tool. Under the policy, forcing a specific language without user opt-in is a natural-language policy violation.
The example value for api_key includes Chinese text (请替换为你的APIKey), which imposes a specific language in user-facing configuration content. There is no indication that the skill is region-specific or that users can choose their preferred language, so this conflicts with the language/locale policy requirement.
No suspicious patterns detected.