browser-use

Fail

Audited by Snyk on May 18, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

HIGH W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.

  • Insecure credential handling detected (high risk: 1.00). The prompt includes commands that pass API keys/tokens directly on the command line and examples embedding secrets (e.g., "browser-use cloud login " and "browser-use cookies set token abc123"), which requires the LLM to handle and output secret values verbatim.

CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

  • Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The list contains a direct "curl | bash" installer hosted on an unverified third‑party domain (https://browser-use.com/cli/install.sh), which is a high‑risk distribution vector for malware even though the other URLs (google, mail, news.ycombinator, example.com) are benign/legitimate.

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly opens and automates arbitrary public websites (e.g., "browser-use open https://news.ycombinator.com" and "browser-use open https://www.google.com") and uses commands like eval, get text/html, state, wait, click and input to read and act on page content, so untrusted third‑party web content can be ingested and materially influence subsequent actions.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill's installation repeatedly instructs running "curl -fsSL https://browser-use.com/cli/install.sh | bash", which fetches and immediately executes remote code and is presented as the required installation/runtime dependency for the CLI, so it directly executes external code at setup.

Issues (4)

W007
HIGH

Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.

E005
CRITICAL

Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
May 18, 2026, 01:02 AM
Issues
4
Security Audit — snyk — browser-use