shannon-ai-pentester

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: 1.00). The skill's SKILL.md shows the agent is run against an arbitrary URL (e.g., "./shannon start URL=https://target.example.com REPO=...") and its "Reconnaissance — Nmap, Subfinder, WhatWeb, and Schemathesis scan the target" plus "Parallel Exploitation — Concurrent agents attempt live exploits" indicate it fetches and interprets untrusted public web content that directly drives scanning and exploit actions.

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

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The install guidance clones and runs code from https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon.git (git clone ... then executing ./shannon), meaning remote code is fetched and executed as a required dependency for the skill.

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 host-modifying commands (e.g., "sudo usermod -aG docker $USER") that request sudo and change user/group membership on the machine, so it encourages modifying the host 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, 12:51 PM
Issues
3