muse
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Nov 2, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMPERSISTENCECOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONPRIVILEGE_ESCALATIONDYNAMIC_EXECUTIONINDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [PERSISTENCE]: Implements automated, persistent reverse SSH loops that ensure the VM maintains a constant outbound connection to a remote peer for inbound access.
- [PERSISTENCE]: Hardcodes a specific SSH public key ("muse-hop") into the authorized_keys file by default during setup, granting permanent remote access to a specific identity.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Extensively uses complex shell scripts to manage system users, configuration files, and daemon lifecycles in an ephemeral container environment.
- [PRIVILEGE_ESCALATION]: Utilizes 'unshare -m' to create private mount namespaces, allowing the Tailscale daemon to bypass system-level DNS and routing restrictions.
- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: Configures a "Reverse Shell" pattern via SSH reverse port forwarding, enabling a remote peer machine to execute commands on the local VM.
- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Fetches binaries for OpenSSH and Tailscale from official Ubuntu and Tailscale package repositories during the setup process.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Disables standard SSH security features ('StrictModes no') to accommodate platform-specific file system permission requirements on the persistent home volume.
- [DYNAMIC_EXECUTION]: Dynamically generates and writes multiple shell scripts and a Python proxy helper to the file system at runtime to manage the remote access stack.
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Modifies the user's ~/.bashrc file to persistently source custom environment configurations and secret-handling logic.
- [INDIRECT_PROMPT_INJECTION]:
- Ingestion points: Reads configuration data from local .env files and processes output from network status tools like 'tailscale status' and 'dig'.
- Boundary markers: Lacks explicit markers or instructions for the agent to distinguish between its own logic and potentially malicious embedded data in processed inputs.
- Capability inventory: The skill provides full shell execution, file system manipulation, and network pivoting capabilities to the agent.
- Sanitization: Employs basic output masking using 'sed' to prevent Tailscale authentication keys from being exposed in logs.
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