performing-api-security-testing-with-postman

Warn

Audited by Socket on Apr 6, 2026

1 alert found:

Anomaly
AnomalyLOW
scripts/agent.py

This module is best classified as a security-testing harness with significant dual-use risk. It can generate exploit payload collections and can execute user-supplied or generated Postman collections/environments via the Newman subprocess. While it does not exhibit classic malware behaviors in the Python itself, it creates a meaningful trust-boundary problem: untrusted collection/environment content may lead to arbitrary test-script execution in Newman and active HTTP probing. Additional concerns include embedding bearer tokens into generated collection artifacts and parsing results from a hardcoded file in the current working directory.

Confidence: 62%Severity: 66%
Audit Metadata
Analyzed At
Apr 6, 2026, 01:38 PM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/mukul975%2FAnthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills%2Fperforming-api-security-testing-with-postman%2F@7b6737b700902f1414e8cd48331099806d17df15