Caveat verdict
finance-news-analyzer
Financial news aggregator and sentiment analysis skill fetching from declared public sources to generate investment briefings; no credentials or outbound exfiltration beyond reading named public news APIs.
⚠ Flagged for review — coarse, uncorroborated signal, not a confirmed exploit. Review the config yourself before installing.
Automated static analysis — not a human review. Caveat flags capabilities, not confirmed intent, and can produce false positives. Disagree with this verdict? Use Dispute below.
Findings (6)
Pipe-to-shell pattern (curl | sh) — supply chain attack vector
QUICKSTART.md · code · curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
Pipe to sh — executes piped content as shell commands
QUICKSTART.md · code · | sh
Pipe to python — executes piped content as Python code
FEATURES.md · prose · downgraded · | Python
HTTP request to bare IP address — common in malicious payloads
references/supported-models.md · code · http://192.168.1.100
subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python
scripts/scheduler.py · prose · downgraded · subprocess.run(
Python os.getenv — reads environment variable
scripts/analyze_sentiment.py · prose · downgraded · os.getenv(
Why the tier is capped
Execution sink present in raw bytes (Hard Floor: class A/D). Final tier capped at Caution — cannot be lifted by any downgrade, example-payload opt-in, or allowlist.
Permissions & capabilities
No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.
Is this flag fair?
Thanks — recorded.