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Security audit

evaluate-patent-transfer-ip

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a scoped patent-transfer research workflow that uses disclosed patent and public-source research to produce a local HTML brief, with clear cautions against unauthorized outreach or unsupported legal conclusions.

Before installing, users should ensure they have authorized access to the referenced PatSnap connectors and permission to analyze any confidential patent or transaction information. Treat generated rankings and outreach hypotheses as research support only, not legal advice, valuation, transaction approval, or permission to contact a company.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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)

Vague Triggers

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
83% confidence
Finding

The manifest description says to use the skill when a user asks for 'partner identification' or an 'outreach-ready patent asset brief,' alongside several other loosely bounded request types. While the domain is specialized, the invocation guidance does not clearly delimit when this skill should be selected versus other patent-analysis or business-research skills, and it provides no negative examples or exclusion conditions.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.