skills/mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/securing-container-registry-images/Gen Agent Trust Hub
securing-container-registry-images
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 15, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONMETADATA_POISONINGINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill references setup scripts for Grype and Syft from Anchore's official GitHub repositories.
- Evidence: The commands
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anchore/grype/main/install.sh | shandcurl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anchore/syft/main/install.sh | share included in the documentation and agent script error messages. - Security Note: These sources represent well-known security tools, and the download patterns are consistent with their official installation procedures.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The
scripts/agent.pyscript invokes security tools such as Trivy, Syft, and Cosign using thesubprocessmodule. - Evidence: The code in
scan_image_trivy,generate_sbom, andverify_image_signatureusessubprocess.run()with arguments passed as a list. - Security Note: By passing command arguments as a list and avoiding
shell=True, the script correctly mitigates the risk of shell command injection from potentially untrusted image references. - [METADATA_POISONING]: There is a minor inconsistency between the author field in the skill's frontmatter ('mahipal') and the copyright owner in the license file ('mukul975'). This is a documentation discrepancy rather than a malicious pattern.
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes container image references, which are external strings that could contain malicious content designed to influence downstream logic.
- Ingestion points: Image references provided via the
--imageflag toscripts/agent.py. - Boundary markers: The script does not use specific delimiters or warnings for image strings, but treats them as literal arguments.
- Capability inventory: The agent has permissions to execute binaries, write scan reports to the local file system, and interact with the AWS ECR service.
- Sanitization: Input is treated as a literal argument string in subprocess calls, ensuring that shell-specific characters are not interpreted as commands.
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