setup-local-kubernetes
Audited by Socket on Feb 27, 2026
1 alert found:
MalwareThis skill is a coherent, plausible guide for setting up a local Kubernetes development environment. It uses common tools and official-looking URLs, and its capabilities align with the stated purpose. However, it contains multiple download-and-execute patterns (curl|bash, unpinned binaries), requires elevated privileges, and instructs disabling TLS verification for metrics-server — all of which are supply-chain and security risks in a local development setting. There is no direct evidence of credential harvesting or backdoors in the provided content, but the install patterns and privileged operations raise meaningful risk that a compromised upstream artifact could execute arbitrary code on the host. Recommend hardening: prefer pinned releases/checksums, avoid piping remote scripts to shell, validate binaries before install, minimize use of --kubelet-insecure-tls, and avoid destructive teardown commands without explicit confirmation.