kics
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 1, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches KICS binaries from the official Checkmarx GitHub repository releases.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The instructions utilize common shell utilities such as
wget,tar, andbrew, alongside thekicsCLI itself to perform security audits. - [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: Installation steps include the use of
sudoto move the downloaded binary into a global system directory (/usr/local/bin/). - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to ingest and process external Infrastructure as Code (IaC) files, which represents an attack surface.
- Ingestion points: Files located at paths specified in
kics scan -pcommands, including Terraform, Kubernetes, and Dockerfiles. - Boundary markers: None present in the instructions to delimit external content from agent instructions.
- Capability inventory: The agent has access to
Bash,Read,Glob, andGreptools. - Sanitization: No explicit sanitization or validation of the processed files is described.
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