serving-llms-vllm
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 5, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill includes a troubleshooting command in
references/troubleshooting.mdthat requires elevated privileges:sudo ufw allow 8000. This allows the agent to modify system firewall rules. - [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The documentation in
SKILL.mdandreferences/troubleshooting.mdrecommends using the--trust-remote-codeflag when serving custom models. This vLLM feature allows the execution of arbitrary Python code contained within the model files downloaded from external and potentially untrusted sources like Hugging Face. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to process external, untrusted data (prompts and API requests) through an LLM engine. It lacks explicit boundary markers or sanitization, creating a surface where malicious instructions in input data could influence agent behavior.
- Ingestion points: Prompts are loaded from
prompts.txt(SKILL.md) and received via the OpenAI-compatible API endpoint examples (SKILL.md). - Boundary markers: No delimiters or safety instructions are used to separate user prompts from system instructions in the code examples.
- Capability inventory: The skill environment allows package installation (
pip install), shell command execution (vllm serve), and firewall modification (sudo ufw). - Sanitization: No input validation or filtering is mentioned or implemented in the provided Python snippets.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill provides instructions for the agent to execute various shell commands, including environment setup (
pip install), model serving (vllm serve), and network diagnostics (curl,lsof,nc). - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill instructs the agent to download numerous external packages from PyPI (vllm, locust, autoawq, auto-gptq, flash-attn) and models from Hugging Face. While these target well-known services, they constitute a significant dependency chain.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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