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Security audit

Economic Calendar

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a simple economic-calendar reference that uses disclosed government data fetch examples and does not install code, persist, or request sensitive access.

Install only if you are comfortable with the agent making disclosed network requests to external government data sites when gathering economic data. Verify market data and trading implications independently before acting on them.

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
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (2)

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
```bash
# Recent China economic indicators
curl -s "https://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?m=QueryData&dbcode=hgnd&rowcode=zb&colcode=sj&wds=[]&dfwds=[]"
```

**Key indicators:**
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding
The skill instructs use of curl to retrieve data from an external website, which causes outbound network access to a third party. In an agent context, this can disclose environment metadata such as IP/user-agent and expands the trust boundary to external content that may be malformed, unavailable, or later repurposed for indirect prompt/data poisoning workflows.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding
The output templates in the "Format Output" section are presented entirely in Chinese and imply that generated calendar summaries should use that locale by default. The file does not offer an alternative language option or state that Chinese output is optional, which conflicts with the policy against forcing a specific language without user opt-in.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.