SMTP Penetration Testing
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Apr 15, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill requires the use of elevated privileges to install external dependencies.
- Evidence:
sudo apt-get installis used to installnmap,netcat,hydra, andsmtp-user-enumin the prerequisites section. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The workflow involves executing aggressive security tools designed for reconnaissance and exploitation.
- Evidence: Use of
hydraandmedusafor credential brute-forcing,nmapscripts for vulnerability detection, andsmtp-user-enumfor account discovery. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill triggers the download of software packages from remote repositories.
- Evidence: Software installation commands (
apt-get install) fetch external binary packages at runtime. - [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is susceptible to indirect prompt injection by processing unsanitized output from remote SMTP servers.
- Ingestion points: Banner grabbing (
nc TARGET_IP 25) and command enumeration (EHLOresponses) in Phases 3 and 4 ingest data directly from target servers into the agent's context. - Boundary markers: None present; external server responses are not wrapped in protective delimiters.
- Capability inventory: The skill has extensive command execution capabilities (subprocess calls for
nmap,hydra,openssl, etc.). - Sanitization: No validation or escaping is performed on the server-provided strings before processing.
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