api-security

Warn

Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jul 18, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUMCOMMAND_EXECUTIONEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
  • [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill instructs the agent to execute shell commands such as bootstrap and ./api.sh to perform security testing tasks and initialize tool environments.
  • [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The documentation provides links to various external tools hosted on GitHub (e.g., praetorian-inc/vespasian, arjinexe/entropy-chaos, Sharon-Needles/api, ticarpi/jwt_tool) and encourages their installation via pip or direct script execution.
  • [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: By design, the skill uses tools to send data and requests to external API endpoints for testing purposes. It also accesses files outside the skill's base directory (e.g., ../field-journal/precedent-pentest.md and ../tool-index.md), which could lead to unauthorized data access if the environment contains sensitive logs or credentials.
  • [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: The skill's workflow involves downloading scripts from remote repositories and executing them locally to facilitate security assessments, posing a risk if those third-party sources are compromised.
  • [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill processes untrusted external data such as API specifications, robots.txt files, and JavaScript source code to discover endpoints and generate attack scenarios, creating a surface for indirect prompt injection.
  • Ingestion points: Reads external API specifications (api-spec.yaml), robots.txt, and JS files as described in Phase 1 of the testing methodology.
  • Boundary markers: Absent. The skill does not define delimiters or warnings to ignore instructions embedded in the ingested data.
  • Capability inventory: Includes network operations (curl, wget, etc.), local script execution (api.sh, bootstrap), and file writing (vespasian export).
  • Sanitization: No explicit sanitization or validation of external content is described before processing.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Jul 18, 2026, 08:15 AM
Security Audit — agent-trust-hub — api-security