bios-deep-research

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Audited by Snyk on Apr 5, 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 explicitly fetches and parses untrusted responses from the open BIOS/x402 API (e.g., POST /api/deep-research/start returns a 402 with payment requirements in the response body or PAYMENT-REQUIRED header in Step 1, and GET /api/deep-research/{conversationId} returns SIWX challenges and AI-generated results in Step 4/4a) and those responses are parsed and used to drive follow-up actions (payment signing, retries, and polling), so third-party content directly influences tool use and next actions.

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

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill's Python client runs npm install at runtime to fetch and execute Node packages (e.g., @coinbase/cdp-sdk, @x402/core, @x402/evm, viem) from the npm registry (https://registry.npmjs.org) and then invokes the local Node signer (research_signer.mjs), so remote code is fetched during runtime and executed as a required dependency.

MEDIUM W009: Direct money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking).

  • Direct money access detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill explicitly implements a crypto payment flow: x402 USDC payments on Base (chain eip155:8453). It details creating an x402 v2 payment payload, EIP-712 signing (transferWithAuthorization / sign_typed_data), encoding a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header, resubmitting the request to trigger settlement, SIWX polling tied to the paying wallet, and describes on-chain feedback submission (calling giveFeedback() on an ERC-8004 contract with a Base contract address). These are specific, purpose-built crypto payment and on-chain transaction instructions (signing payloads and settling USDC), not generic HTTP or browser automation. Therefore it is designed to move/authorize money on-chain.

Issues (3)

W011
MEDIUM

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

W012
MEDIUM

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

W009
MEDIUM

Direct money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking).

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Apr 5, 2026, 01:44 PM
Issues
3