jina-cli
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 14, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICALREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATION
Full Analysis
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill's installation instructions include a command that downloads a shell script from a remote GitHub repository and pipes it directly into the bash interpreter. This pattern allows for arbitrary code execution from an untrusted source.
- Evidence:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geekjourneyx/jina-cli/main/scripts/install.sh | bashinSKILL.md. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill prompts the user or agent to install software from an external repository and interacts with external APIs to fetch content.
- Evidence:
go install github.com/geekjourneyx/jina-cli/cli@latestand references tohttps://r.jina.ai/andhttps://s.jina.ai/inSKILL.md. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill provides functionality to fetch content from arbitrary URLs and search results, which is then processed into a format intended for LLM consumption. This creates a surface where external content can influence agent behavior.
- Ingestion points: The
jina read --url,jina search --query, andjina read --filecommands documented inSKILL.md. - Boundary markers: No delimiters or specific instructions to ignore embedded commands are present in the skill text.
- Capability inventory: The skill involves executing CLI commands that perform network operations and local file reading.
- Sanitization: The tool converts raw content to Markdown, but there is no evidence of sanitization to prevent instruction injection within the data.
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill provides instructions to modify the system's environment variables during the Windows setup process.
- Evidence:
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path + ";$HOME\go\bin", "User")inSKILL.md. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill contains multiple shell command examples intended to be executed by the agent to install and use the CLI tool.
Recommendations
- HIGH: Downloads and executes remote code from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geekjourneyx/jina-cli/main/scripts/install.sh - DO NOT USE without thorough review
- AI detected serious security threats
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