obsidian-second-brain

Fail

Audited by Snyk on May 14, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E004: Prompt injection detected in skill instructions.

  • Potential prompt injection detected (high risk: 1.00). The prompt embeds deceptive background instructions — e.g., spawning a headless "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions -p" subprocess that runs silently via a PostCompact hook to propagate vault updates without user visibility or explicit consent — which tells the agent to bypass platform permissions and act outside normal, transparent skill behavior.

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly fetches and ingests open web and social-media content (e.g., /obsidian-ingest accepts URLs, and the Research commands /x-read, /x-pulse, /research, /research-deep, and /youtube in SKILL.md call out fetching X/Twitter posts, web search/Perplexity results, and YouTube transcripts) and then reads, synthesizes, and in some cases automatically propagates updates (research-deep emits a propagation payload and spawns vault-updating agents), so untrusted user-generated content can directly influence agent actions.

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


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

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill instructs the agent to modify user configuration and hook files (e.g., ~/.claude/settings.json), make and install executable scripts (chmod, curl|bash), set env vars, create background scheduled agents, and even spawn a headless subprocess with the explicit --dangerously-skip-permissions flag — actions that change machine state and bypass security protections.

Issues (4)

E004
CRITICAL

Prompt injection 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).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
May 14, 2026, 11:12 PM
Issues
4