parallel-deep-research

Fail

Audited by Snyk on Mar 3, 2026

Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis

CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

  • Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.90). This is suspicious because it points to a direct .sh installer (https://parallel.ai/install.sh) and the skill explicitly instructs curl | bash — a high-risk pattern since a remote shell script can run arbitrary code and the domain's trustworthiness isn't independently verified here.

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

  • Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The SKILL.md explicitly instructs running "parallel-cli research run" / "parallel-cli research poll" (part of parallel-web-tools) which performs deep web research and produces $FILENAME.md and $FILENAME.json containing aggregated basis and an executive summary derived from open/public third‑party web content that the agent must read/share, so untrusted web content can materially influence next actions.

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

  • Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill's setup includes a runtime command that fetches and executes remote code—"curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash"—which would install/enable the required parallel-cli dependency and thus executes external code during runtime.
Audit Metadata
Risk Level
CRITICAL
Analyzed
Mar 3, 2026, 01:03 AM