redpanda
Fail
Audited by Snyk on Jun 18, 2026
Risk Level: HIGH
Full Analysis
HIGH W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
- Insecure credential handling detected (high risk: 1.00). The prompt contains numerous hard-coded credentials and examples that embed secrets verbatim in commands and configs (e.g., --password in rpk commands, sasl.password in Python, jaas config), which would require the LLM to reproduce secret values directly and thus create an exfiltration risk.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The Kubernetes instructions run "helm repo add https://charts.redpanda.com" and "helm install redpanda/redpanda", which at runtime fetch and install remote Helm chart content from https://charts.redpanda.com (executing remote templates/manifest installation), so this is a runtime external dependency that can execute remote code.
MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
- Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill includes instructions that require root/sudo on host machines (e.g., "rpk redpanda tune all" — "run as root on each broker host") which ask operators to modify OS-level tuning and system settings, so it pushes actions that can change the machine state; the other user-creation commands are application-level ACLs, not OS user accounts.
Issues (3)
W007
HIGHInsecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
W013
MEDIUMAttempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
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