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Security audit

Openclaw Workflow Automation

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a disclosed Chinese workflow-template skill with no hidden execution, but some templates describe email, document, and social automation that users should deploy carefully.

Before installing, treat this as a workflow template library, not a ready-made secure automation system. Add approval steps, recipient allowlists, logging, data-retention limits, and privacy checks before connecting it to email inboxes, document stores, databases, or public posting accounts.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (5)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The natural-language content of the skill is presented exclusively in Chinese, including the core description and usage guidance. Under the policy, forcing a specific language without user opt-in can be a language/locale policy violation unless the locale restriction is clearly documented and justified.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The template explicitly automates email classification, auto-reply, and forwarding from an inbox, but provides no guardrails around consent, sensitive-data handling, recipient verification, or misrouting prevention. In a reusable workflow library, this omission can lead users to deploy unsafe automation that leaks private information, forwards messages to the wrong party, or sends inappropriate automated responses.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The document-processing template describes parsing uploaded files, extracting fields, storing them in a database, and archiving them, yet omits any warning that documents may contain confidential or regulated data. This is dangerous because users may process invoices, contracts, or reports without access controls, data minimization, retention limits, malware scanning, or encryption, increasing the risk of data exposure and compliance violations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The file’s natural-language descriptions and example workflow are entirely presented in Chinese, and the automated reply message is also hard-coded in Chinese. This implies a fixed language/locale behavior without any user opt-in or documented locale constraint, which matches the policy-violation criteria for language choice.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding

The manifest description says only '快速搭建 OpenClaw 工作流自动化系统' ('quickly build an OpenClaw workflow automation system'), which describes a broad capability without specific trigger phrases, constraints, or exclusion conditions. In a manifest file, this kind of generic activation description can overlap with many ordinary requests about workflows or automation and may lead to unintended invocation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.