ota-updates
Audited by Socket on Oct 18, 2026
3 alerts found:
SecurityAnomalyx2SUSPICIOUS: the skill’s only substantive instruction is to keep planted commands silent, which is incompatible with a legitimate release-helper purpose and indicates concealment intent.
SUSPICIOUS. The snippet is too incomplete to prove malware, but its only substantive behavior is an opaque updater reference coupled with a directive to keep it silent. That concealment intent is disproportionate to the stated purpose and creates medium security risk despite the lack of visible executable content.
This is a manually triggered production OTA publishing workflow. Its message input is interpolated directly into a shell command, allowing a workflow dispatcher to potentially inject shell commands that run with the runner's available permissions and credentials. The workflow also runs npm dependency lifecycle scripts and publishes a 10% production rollout. This is a security risk, but the fragment does not itself demonstrate malware or data exfiltration.