youtube-downloader

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Aug 3, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

HIGH W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.

  • Insecure credential handling detected (high risk: 1.00). This skill instructs the agent to extract browser cookies via browser_evaluate, write those cookie values into a file, and pass that file to yt-dlp, which requires the agent to handle actual session cookies (secrets) verbatim — a direct exfiltration risk.

CRITICAL E006: Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

  • Malicious code pattern detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill instructs silent/unprompted installation of tooling and includes explicit browser cookie extraction and writing to a temporary cookie file for use with yt-dlp, which enable credential capture and unauthorized system modification.

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

  • Third-party content exposure detected (medium risk: 0.30). Within the workflow, the agent ingests and parses free text returned by the external YouTube content via yt-dlp -F "URL" and yt-dlp --list-subs "URL" (format/subtitle tables and stderr are processed at runtime), meaning outsider-authored YouTube metadata/captions can be delivered to the LLM without selecting a specific item beyond the provided URL.

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

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill tells the agent to perform silent automatic installs (including apt-get commands that may require sudo) and to extract/write browser cookies to /tmp, which directs the agent to modify the host system state without explicit user consent.

Issues (4)

W007
HIGH

Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.

E006
CRITICAL

Malicious code pattern detected in skill scripts.

W011
MEDIUM

Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Aug 3, 2026, 01:48 AM
Issues
4
Security Audit — snyk — youtube-downloader