ros-robotics

Fail

Audited by Socket on Mar 9, 2026

3 alerts found:

Obfuscated Filex3
Obfuscated FileHIGH
SKILL.md

The ROS Robotics skill is coherently aligned with its stated purpose of guiding ROS workspace identification, consistency checks, and documentation-driven tasks. It intentionally avoids credential handling, external data exfiltration, or autonomous real-world actions, and it relies on local scripts and user-approved edits. Overall, the footprint is benign and proportionate to its goal. Security risk is low, with no evident supply-chain or data leakage patterns given the described content.

Confidence: 98%
Obfuscated FileHIGH
docs/INSTALL.md

The README contains unsafe one-line installer patterns (curl|bash and irm|iex) that execute unverified remote scripts and thus present a meaningful supply-chain risk. While the fragment contains no explicit malicious payloads, the lack of integrity verification, use of runtime-target selection, and direct execution of remote content raise security concerns. Recommended actions: do not run the one-liners blindly; clone the repo and manually inspect install.sh, install.ps1, and scripts/install.py; prefer pinned commits, checksums, or signatures; run installers in isolated environments for analysis.

Confidence: 98%
Obfuscated FileHIGH
install.sh

This bootstrapper is a high-risk supply-chain pattern: it fetches and immediately executes code from a remote repository without integrity checks, sandboxing, or user-visible auditing. The script itself does not contain direct malicious payloads, credentials, or obfuscation, but it enables arbitrary code execution from the network and reduces traceability by silencing git output and deleting the clone on exit. Recommend treating usage as unsafe unless mitigations are applied: pin to a specific commit, verify signatures/hashes, inspect install.py before execution, run in an isolated environment or limited-privilege container, and avoid suppressing clone output.

Confidence: 98%
Audit Metadata
Analyzed At
Mar 9, 2026, 12:20 PM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/wzyn20051216%2Fros-robotics-skill%2Fros-robotics%2F@a07713a746f73c4dd1816389c95bb71a057ef13c