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Security audit

Finance Analyst

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is a disclosed financial-advisory helper that asks for startup information to produce analysis and documents, with sensitive-data handling notes but no hidden execution, exfiltration, persistence, or destructive behavior in the inspected artifact.

Before installing, treat any company plans, financial statements, founder biographies, investor lists, and PDFs as confidential. Use redacted or example data when possible, review any generated reports before sharing, and only run the optional system package installation commands if you understand the packages being installed.

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
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Findings (6)

Sudo/Root Execution

Medium
Category
Privilege Escalation
Confidence
70% confidence
Finding

Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Content

Scanner excerpt · README.md (reported line 38)May include surrounding context.

brew install tesseract ghostscript poppler

Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr poppler-utils ghostscript

text

### Basic Usage

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

This markdown file documents features that analyze startup financials and generate investor matching and outreach recommendations, which implies processing sensitive business and contact data. While the README includes financial-advice disclaimers, it does not warn users about privacy, confidentiality, or careful handling of uploaded company documents and investor data.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The README explicitly promotes parsing financial PDFs, OCR of scanned business plans, and generation of report files, all of which can affect user data, privacy, and local filesystems. There is no adjacent warning that these operations may extract sensitive information from documents or create output artifacts on disk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The activation criteria are broad enough to match routine business, startup, investing, and planning questions, which increases the chance of unintended invocation. In a finance-oriented skill that solicits detailed company, team, and financial data, accidental activation can lead users to disclose sensitive information in contexts where they did not expect a specialized fundraising workflow or heightened data collection.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill instructs the agent to collect extensive sensitive business information, including revenue, expenses, runway, founder backgrounds, fundraising targets, and prior financing, without an upfront privacy warning or minimization guidance. Even if not overtly malicious, this creates unnecessary exposure of confidential startup and personal data, especially because the skill is designed to gather it conversationally over multiple exchanges.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Intent-Code Divergence

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

At L479 the skill says it "can't read files," framing file access as unavailable, but elsewhere the documented behavior repeatedly offers to save generated outputs as files (L235, L296, L428-L431, L513). This is an intent-level contradiction in the skill documentation about filesystem capabilities, which could mislead users about what file operations the skill can perform.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.