nemo-retriever
Warn
Audited by Snyk on Jun 12, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUM
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MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.85). Outsider-authored free text can enter the LLM context via
retriever queryresults: the CLI returns extractedtextfrom user-provided PDFs/images/HTML/etc. (e.g.,retriever query ... | tee /tmp/hits.jsonthen the agent reads/tmp/hits.jsonand useshit['text']to form the reply), and that extracted prose originates from documents the operating user did not author.
MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
- Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The install recipe can clone and pip-install code at runtime from https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Retriever.git (and pulls PyTorch wheels via https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu130), which fetches and executes remote code during setup and is required for the retriever CLI to run.
Issues (2)
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W012
MEDIUMUnverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).
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