vast-gpu

Warn

Audited by Snyk on Jul 18, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

MEDIUM W009: Direct money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking).

  • Direct money access detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill contains explicit commands and parameters to create and destroy paid vast.ai instances (e.g., vastai create instance and vastai destroy instance) and instructs setting a vast.ai API key. Those actions directly start and stop billed contracts on the vast.ai marketplace and can incur charges (the skill even reports estimated/actual cost and supports a max_budget field). This grants the agent the ability to execute actions that result in real financial charges, i.e., direct financial execution authority.

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

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (medium risk: 0.60). The skill explicitly instructs using ssh with StrictHostKeyChecking=no (bypassing host key verification) and runs root-level package installs in created instances (via an onstart-cmd), which encourages bypassing SSH security checks and executing privileged changes on remote machines even though it doesn't ask to create local users or escalate local sudo.

Issues (2)

W009
MEDIUM

Direct money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Jul 18, 2026, 04:52 PM
Issues
2
Security Audit — snyk — vast-gpu