Security audit

Bio-chat: Hardcore Primer Designer

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill appears to be a focused RT-qPCR primer-design helper with a disclosed NCBI lookup flow and no evidence of hidden or destructive behavior.

Reasonable to install if you are comfortable with the tool querying NCBI for accessions you provide. For safer use, pin requests to a reviewed current version and avoid submitting sensitive or unpublished sequence identifiers unless the NCBI data flow is acceptable.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (2)

Unpinned Dependencies

Low

Category: Supply Chain
Content: requests
Confidence: 95% confidence
Finding: requests

Known Vulnerable Dependency: requests — 10 advisory(ies): CVE-2014-1830 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Requests); CVE-2024-47081 (Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs); CVE-2024-35195 (Requests `Session` object does not verify requests after making first request wi) +7 more

High

Category: Supply Chain
Confidence: 98% confidence
Finding: requests

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.