nextflow-development

Warn

Audited by Snyk on Mar 18, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill's required workflow (SKILL.md Step 0 and references/geo-sra-acquisition.md) explicitly instructs the agent to fetch study info and download datasets from public GEO/SRA/ENA (NCBI/ENA) and to read that metadata to suggest genomes/pipelines and sample subsets, so untrusted, user-generated third-party content is ingested and can materially influence decisions.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill includes an installation command that would fetch and execute remote code at runtime via "curl -s https://get.nextflow.io | bash" (the get.nextflow.io URL), which is a direct remote-code-execution vector if followed as part of setup.

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

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 1.00). The prompt includes explicit sudo commands and instructions to change group membership, start system services, and install packages (e.g., sudo usermod -aG docker $USER, sudo systemctl start docker, sudo apt install ...), which instruct the agent to perform privileged system modifications that alter the machine state.

Issues (3)

W011
MEDIUM

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

W012
MEDIUM

Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Mar 18, 2026, 09:23 PM
Issues
3