sniff
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 11, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHDATA_EXFILTRATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONDYNAMIC_CONTEXT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill is explicitly designed to identify and extract sensitive information from network traffic.
- Targets include HTTP Basic Authentication headers (
http.authorization), session cookies (http.cookie), and form POST data which typically contains usernames and passwords. - It instructs the agent to summarize and report discovered credentials, API keys, and session tokens to the user.
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The instructions explicitly guide the agent to suggest or use
sudoto overcome permission issues during live network captures. - Evidence: "Live capture may require root privileges. If permission denied, suggest running with sudo or using
sudo tsharkdirectly." - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill executes complex shell commands via
tsharkand calls external wrapper scripts (e.g.,capture-http-credentials.sh) to perform analysis. - It utilizes the
$ARGUMENTSvariable directly in shell commands, which could lead to command injection if the user-provided interface name or file path is not properly sanitized by the platform. - [DYNAMIC_CONTEXT_INJECTION]: The skill uses the
!command`` syntax to execute shell commands at load time for environment detection. - Evidence:
!"test -f scripts/tshark/capture-http-credentials.sh && echo "YES" || echo "NO""is used to determine which execution path the agent should take.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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