macos-security-hardening
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Sep 18, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSDATA_EXFILTRATIONPERSISTENCEINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill uses
sudoto perform system modifications, such as changing firewall states, adjusting power management settings, and disabling system services. - [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: The instructions involve elevating privileges to create new system users, modify existing account permissions, and set firmware-level security settings.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches network configuration profiles from Cloudflare and Quad9, and retrieves a community-maintained hosts file from a GitHub repository.
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill provides instructions to output the contents of the macOS keychain using the
securitytool, which accesses all stored credentials and private certificates. - [PERSISTENCE]: The skill modifies system configuration files including
/etc/hosts,/etc/pf.conf, and SSH service configurations, which persist across system reboots. - [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill downloads an external file from a public repository and applies it to system configuration, creating a surface where untrusted data could influence system behavior.
- Ingestion points:
curlto GitHub forhostsfile download inSKILL.md. - Boundary markers: None.
- Capability inventory: Use of
sudo, file system writes to/etc/, and system service restarts. - Sanitization: No validation of the downloaded file content is performed.
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