Linux Privilege Escalation

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Apr 15, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

  • Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.90). Although some links point to legitimate, well-known security tool repositories (GTFOBins, PEASS-ng, linux-exploit-suggester), the presence of attacker-controlled HTTP URLs serving direct executable scripts (http://ATTACKER_IP:8000/linpeas.sh and http://ATTACKER_IP/exploit.c) makes this set highly suspicious and a high-risk vector for malware or exploit delivery.

CRITICAL E006: Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

  • Malicious code pattern detected (high risk: 1.00). This content explicitly provides step-by-step instructions for gaining unauthorized root access (privilege escalation), establishing remote access/backdoors (reverse shells, payload hosting, SUID shells, cron persistence), and credential theft (reading/cracking /etc/shadow), indicating clear malicious intent and high risk of abuse.

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill's Phase 2 and other workflow steps explicitly instruct fetching and running public third-party resources (e.g., curl/wget of linpeas.sh from GitHub, references to GTFOBins and exploit-db/searchsploit) and to use the resulting output to choose and execute exploits, so untrusted web-hosted content would be ingested and could materially influence actions.

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

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill explicitly runs remote install/exec commands such as "curl -L https://github.com/carlospolop/PEASS-ng/releases/latest/download/linpeas.sh | sh" (and uses wget to fetch exploit source like http://ATTACKER_IP/exploit.c), which downloads and executes external code at runtime and is presented as a required enumeration/exploitation dependency.

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

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 1.00). This skill explicitly instructs enumeration and exploitation techniques to obtain root (compile/execute kernel exploits, create SUID binaries, modify /etc/passwd and cron scripts, add users, and launch reverse shells), which directs the agent to modify the machine's state and bypass security controls.

Issues (5)

E005
CRITICAL

Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

E006
CRITICAL

Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

W011
MEDIUM

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

W012
MEDIUM

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

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Apr 15, 2026, 06:10 PM
Issues
5
Security Audit — snyk — Linux Privilege Escalation