nextflow

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Audited by Snyk on Jun 12, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill contains explicit runtime commands that fetch and execute remote code (e.g., curl -s https://get.nextflow.io | bash and curl -fsSL https://get.nf-test.com | bash) and instruct Nextflow to pull and run remote pipelines/containers at runtime (e.g., nextflow run nf-core/rnaseq which pulls pipeline code from GitHub, and container images from quay.io/biocontainers or https://depot.galaxyproject.org/), so these URLs are runtime dependencies that will execute remote code.

MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 1.00). The prompt explicitly instructs running a sudo command to move the nextflow binary into /usr/local/bin (modifying a system directory and requiring elevated privileges), which pushes the agent to perform privileged system changes.

Issues (2)

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Jun 12, 2026, 07:45 PM
Issues
2
Security Audit — snyk — nextflow