paw-mail-usage
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 22, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The skill's installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu systems recommend the use of
sudo dpkg -i, which grants the agent or user administrative privileges to install the package. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill enables the agent to fetch and display the contents of emails and threads, which are untrusted external inputs. These inputs could contain malicious instructions intended to manipulate the agent's behavior.
- Ingestion points: The commands
paw-mail emails list,paw-mail emails fetch,paw-mail emails body, andpaw-mail threads getall ingest data from remote mail servers into the agent's context. - Boundary markers: There are no instructions provided to the agent to treat email content as untrusted or to wrap it in specific delimiters to prevent instruction execution.
- Capability inventory: The agent is granted permission to use
Bashto executepaw-mailsubcommands, including destructive actions likeemails delete,emails move, andaccounts delete. - Sanitization: The skill does not describe or implement any sanitization, filtering, or validation steps for the retrieved email data before processing.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The installation section provides instructions to download and install the CLI tool from the author's GitHub repository and other external package managers like Homebrew and Arch User Repository.
- Sources include
github.com/pawpair/paw-mail-cliandpawpair/paw-mail-clitap. - Installation methods include
nix profile install,brew install,yay -S, anddpkg -i.
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