k8s-sidecar-attack
Warn
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Apr 22, 2026
Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill utilizes several shell commands, including
tcpdump,socat,ps, andnetstat, to inspect the pod environment and capture network traffic. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: It contains explicit instructions to sniff network traffic and filter for sensitive information such as 'flag', 'secret', 'password', 'token', and 'key' from HTTP headers and POST bodies.
- [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill exhibits an indirect prompt injection surface because it processes untrusted data from network traffic. If the agent interprets or summarizes this traffic to determine its next steps, it could be influenced by malicious content injected into the network stream.
- Ingestion points: Raw network traffic captured via
tcpdumpandsocat. - Boundary markers: None identified in the provided commands.
- Capability inventory: Arbitrary shell command execution via the agent's toolset.
- Sanitization: No sanitization or validation of the captured network content is mentioned.
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