SMTP Penetration Testing
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Nov 5, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill's setup instructions include
sudo apt-get installcommands for installing tools likenmap,netcat,hydra, andsmtp-user-enuminSKILL.md. Executing these commands grants the agent administrative privileges to modify the system environment.\n- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill defines various workflows that involve executing powerful command-line tools such asnmap,hydra,nc,dig,nslookup, andopensslto interact with network services and perform security assessments.\n- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]:\n - Ingestion points: The skill instructs the agent to read and parse banners and response codes from external SMTP servers via tools like
nc,telnet, andnmapas described in the banner grabbing and enumeration phases ofSKILL.md.\n - Boundary markers: There are no specific instructions or delimiters provided to prevent the agent from being influenced by potentially malicious strings returned by a target server.\n
- Capability inventory: The skill enables the agent to perform network scans, DNS lookups, and authentication brute-forcing based on findings from the ingested data.\n
- Sanitization: No logic is provided to sanitize or validate server responses before they are processed by the agent.
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