triaging-windows-with-kape

Warn

Audited by Snyk on Jun 23, 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 explicitly documents running kape.exe --sync which pulls Targets/Modules from the KapeFiles GitHub repo (https://github.com/EricZimmerman/KapeFiles) at runtime — those fetched .tkape/.mkape definitions (and referenced EZ Tools binaries at https://ericzimmerman.github.io/) directly control what KAPE collects and which external parsers/binaries are invoked, so remote content can change/drive agent execution.

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

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.70). The prompt explicitly requires and instructs using Administrator privileges (raw volume access, VSS, syncing/updating binaries, and remote deployment via PSExec/EDR) and gives commands that perform system-level collection and modification of state, so it encourages high-privilege operations that can compromise the host if misused.

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 23, 2026, 06:42 AM
Issues
2
Security Audit — snyk — triaging-windows-with-kape