openclaw
Fail
Audited by Snyk on Mar 11, 2026
Risk Level: CRITICAL
Full Analysis
CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.
- Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.90). The first URL (127.0.0.1:18789) is a local loopback dashboard and not an external download source, but the second (https://openclaw.ai/install.sh) is a direct shell-install script from an external domain — piping remote .sh to bash is a high-risk pattern unless you fully trust and have inspected the provider and the script.
MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
- Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill explicitly exposes the agent to untrusted third‑party content via its browser and web tools (references/browser.md shows commands like
openclaw browser ... open <url>and JS evaluation), the web_fetch/web_search tool and Firecrawl fallback (references/diffs_firecrawl.md and tools groups referencing web_fetch/web_search), and the public ClawHub registry (references/clawhub.md) — all of which ingest public webpages, user-generated skills, or arbitrary URLs that the agent is expected to read and which can influence subsequent tool actions.
MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
- Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (medium risk: 0.60). The skill explicitly guides installing and managing a self-hosted gateway (including a curl|bash install, service installation/management, doctor --fix and security audit --fix) which encourages modifying system services/files and performing system-level changes that can alter the machine state even though it does not explicitly instruct creating users or bypassing sudo.
Issues (3)
E005
CRITICALSuspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.
W011
MEDIUMThird-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).
W013
MEDIUMAttempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
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