youtube-downloader
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Nov 4, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONMETADATA_POISONINGDATA_EXFILTRATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill's installation instructions include the use of
sudoto install dependencies on Linux systems. - Evidence:
sudo apt install ffmpeginSKILL.md. - [METADATA_POISONING]: The skill contains metadata at the end of the documentation claiming to be maintained by 'Claude Code Skills Collection', which contradicts the provided author identifier 'jackspace'.
- Evidence:
Maintained by: Claude Code Skills CollectioninSKILL.md. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill provides commands to access sensitive browser data, specifically cookies, which could be used to bypass security controls or access session-restricted content.
- Evidence:
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chromeandyt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefoxinSKILL.md. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is designed to process metadata and content from 1000+ untrusted external websites, which could contain malicious instructions intended to influence the agent's behavior during content extraction.
- Ingestion points: External video URLs, titles, and metadata from platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok (referenced in
SKILL.md). - Boundary markers: None identified; untrusted data is passed to command-line arguments without delimiters or warnings.
- Capability inventory: Executes powerful shell commands via
yt-dlpfor downloading and post-processing (referenced inSKILL.md). - Sanitization: No evidence of input validation or output sanitization before processing external content.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill is centered around executing powerful command-line tools (
yt-dlp,ffmpeg,aria2c) that interact directly with the local file system and network.
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