browser-harness
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jul 18, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHDATA_EXFILTRATIONCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCREDENTIALS_UNSAFEREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The skill provides a
sync_local_profilefunction explicitly designed to upload the user's local browser cookies to a remote cloud environment ("Browser Use cloud"), which constitutes a direct exfiltration of sensitive session data. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The utility
browser-harnessexecutes arbitrary Python code provided through the-ccommand-line argument. This allows the agent to run unvetted code directly in the host environment. - [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Installation instructions guide the user to clone and install code from a third-party repository (
github.com/browser-use/browser-harness) that is not verified and does not match the vendor patterns for the stated author. - [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: The skill is designed to attach to the user's active, authenticated browser sessions. This gives the agent access to sensitive accounts (e.g., Gmail, LinkedIn, X/Twitter) and their associated data without requiring further authentication.
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill facilitates remote code execution by requiring the installation of an external repository and subsequently providing a mechanism to execute arbitrary logic passed from the LLM to the host shell.
- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: Indirect Prompt Injection Surface:
- Ingestion points: Untrusted web content is ingested into the agent context via
js()DOM extraction andcapture_screenshot()calls (SKILL.md). - Boundary markers: The instructions lack explicit delimiters or warnings to ignore instructions embedded in the ingested web data.
- Capability inventory: The skill has the capability to write to the local file system and execute shell commands via the harness tool.
- Sanitization: There is no evidence of sanitization or filtering of ingested web content before it is processed by the agent.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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