codex-x-desktop-manager

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Jul 5, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

  • Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.90). Although api.anthropic.com, linux.do, ara.so and the placeholder api.example.com are benign/expected, the GitHub repo/releases under an unknown/low‑profile username (yynxxxxx) that distribute prebuilt binaries (.dmg/.msi/.deb) and include instructions to bypass macOS Gatekeeper and modify auth/config files are suspicious and represent a high risk for malware distribution.

CRITICAL E006: Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

  • Malicious code pattern detected (high risk: 0.90). This skill intentionally includes features to enable "unrestricted" prompt-injection templates, programmatically overwrite ~/.codex/config.toml and auth.json, add/switch third‑party providers (allowing routing of prompts and keys to attacker-controlled endpoints), and even advises macOS Gatekeeper bypass — strong indicators of deliberate abuse potential and data‑exfiltration vectors, though no obfuscated payloads or explicit remote‑exec/backdoor code is embedded.

MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill directly instructs the agent/app to modify user config and auth files (~/.codex/config.toml, ~/.codex/auth.json, SQLite session DBs), run system-changing commands (cp, echo, chmod, pkill, sqlite3), and even suggests a macOS Gatekeeper bypass and enabling "unrestricted" prompt-injection templates, which collectively push changes to the host and can subvert security and exfiltrate secrets.

Issues (3)

E005
CRITICAL

Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

E006
CRITICAL

Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Jul 5, 2026, 06:21 AM
Issues
3
Security Audit — snyk — codex-x-desktop-manager