auto-updater

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Audited by Snyk on Mar 14, 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 check_update.sh explicitly runs "git fetch --tags" and reads git tags, commit messages, and CHANGELOG.md from the OpenClaw repository (see scripts/check_update.sh and SKILL.md), then may checkout a remote tag and run pnpm/npm build and docker commands—meaning it ingests untrusted, user-authored repository content from upstream remotes that can materially change execution.

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

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The script runs git fetch --tags against the OpenClaw repository remote (the repo origin, e.g. https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw.git), then checks out the latest tag and builds/runs that code—meaning runtime-fetched repository content directly controls and results in executing remote code.

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

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly instructs the agent to apply updates that change files, run builds, run docker build and docker compose up -d, and suggests adding system cron entries and writing to /var/log — all operations that modify system state and likely require elevated privileges.

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 14, 2026, 11:04 AM
Issues
3