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Security audit

monitor-competitor-patent-landscape-ip

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed patent-landscape reporting workflow that uses PatSnap tools and local report generation without evidence of hidden persistence, exfiltration, or unsafe behavior.

Install only if you intend to use PatSnap patent services and are comfortable giving the agent patent-search inputs and report output authority. Keep API keys secret, avoid supplying confidential business data unless your PatSnap and agent environment are approved for it, and treat the report as strategy research rather than legal advice.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • MCP Least PrivilegeUnderdeclared Capability, Wildcard Permission, Missing Permission Declaration
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (5)

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

A second, stronger mismatch indicates the actual behavior may be only a placeholder while claiming full retrieval, analysis, and report generation. In security terms, deceptive capability claims can bypass human review and system safeguards, causing operators to trust nonexistent controls, nonexistent evidence gathering, or nonexistent output generation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
99% confidence
Finding

A second, stronger mismatch indicates the actual behavior may be only a placeholder while claiming full retrieval, analysis, and report generation. In security terms, deceptive capability claims can bypass human review and system safeguards, causing operators to trust nonexistent controls, nonexistent evidence gathering, or nonexistent output generation.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Undeclared Tool Scope

Medium
Category
MCP Least Privilege
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The skill declares network and file-writing behavior but does not constrain tool scope via explicit permissions or allowed-tools. In an agent environment, this can enable broader-than-expected outbound requests or file modification, increasing the risk of data exfiltration, unintended persistence, or misuse if the skill or surrounding runtime is invoked with sensitive inputs.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The instruction 'Use English system fonts' is a natural-language locale constraint. The file does not offer a language or locale choice, nor does it justify English-only output as a region-specific requirement, so this conflicts with the language/locale policy criteria.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

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 · references/workflow_guide.md (reported line 237)May include surrounding context.

md
{
      "title": "Patent title",
      "publication_number": "Verified publication number",
      "patent_url": "https://analytics.patsnap.com/...",
      "family_size": 12,
      "legal_status": "Verified simple status",
      "status_date": "YYYY-MM-DD",

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.