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Security audit

iaiops-process

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill is mostly a disclosed process-plant diagnostics guide, but it mixes read-first safety claims with under-scoped publish, push, and export capabilities in an OT context.

Review this skill before installing in a production or sensitive plant environment. It appears intended for diagnostics and read-first analysis, not deception or persistence, but you should require explicit approval controls, dry-run defaults, destination limits, and audit logging before allowing historian push, UNS or stream publish, or data export tools to run against real plant data.

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
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding

The primary skill instructions and operating guidance are written in Chinese, including the heading and startup guidance, without stating that the user may choose another language or that the skill is restricted to a Chinese-language environment. This creates a natural-language policy concern because it effectively imposes a locale/language assumption without opt-in.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Description-Behavior Mismatch

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The skill markets itself as read-first and MOC-gated, but the documented toolset includes write-adjacent capabilities such as historian_push, export_data, stream_publish, uns_publish, and stream_publish_event without consistently presenting them as exceptions subject to the same approval controls. In an OT/process-plant context, ambiguity about whether an agent may publish or export data can lead to unauthorized state changes, unintended data exfiltration, or unsafe operator trust in the skill's safety boundaries.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Context-Inappropriate Capability

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding

The manifest describes protocol access for HART/OPC-UA/Modbus and plant analytics such as RCA, data quality, and OEE. compliance_mapping, compliance_frameworks, compliance_dengbao_levels, compliance_report, and compliance_evidence_bundle introduce a governance/compliance capability that is not clearly tied to the stated instrumentation-focused purpose.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.