SMTP Penetration Testing

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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 install is used to install nmap, netcat, hydra, and smtp-user-enum in the prerequisites section.
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The workflow involves executing aggressive security tools designed for reconnaissance and exploitation.
  • Evidence: Use of hydra and medusa for credential brute-forcing, nmap scripts for vulnerability detection, and smtp-user-enum for 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 (EHLO responses) 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.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Apr 15, 2026, 06:10 PM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — SMTP Penetration Testing