ansible-validator
Audited by Socket on Mar 4, 2026
2 alerts found:
AnomalyMalwareThis playbook contains multiple insecure patterns and misconfigurations (hardcoded password, unquoted variable in shell leading to command injection risk, TLS validation disabled for downloads, world-writable script file, unnecessary privilege escalation, handler mismatch, OS-conditional logic missing). These are security and operational risks that should be fixed, but the fragment does not contain clear malicious logic (no obfuscated payloads, no network exfiltration or reverse shell code shown). Treat it as insecure/unsafe to use in production until remediated.
BENIGN: The skill fragment presents a coherent, proportionate, and multi-stage Ansible validation workflow with appropriate use of standard tooling, environment bootstrap, and fallback handling. No explicit malicious behavior or credential-harvesting patterns are evident in the described code and data flows. Ensure that any real deployments enforce strict permissions for temporary environments and validate that any external lookups (documentation retrieval) are sourced from trusted, versioned endpoints. Overall risk is moderate and aligned with a legitimate infrastructure validation toolchain.