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testing-for-sensitive-data-exposure

skill:mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills#testing-for-sensitive-data-exposure

Identifying sensitive data exposure vulnerabilities including API key leakage, PII in responses, insecure storage, and unprotected data transmission during security assessments.

Verdict
Suspicious

Risky behavior the analysis could not rule out.

Analyzed Oct 27, 2026, 23:19 UTC at 54a7988

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1
findings
medium
highest severity
1
threat classes
4,532
files scanned
91/91
checks satisfied
0
package advisories

Why this verdict

  • suspicious: finding skill:skills/testing-for-sensitive-data-exposure:skills/testing-for-sensitive-data-exposure/SKILL.md:54:SUPPLY

Security findings 1

Supply chain

mediumContextual risklow confidence

The skill's prerequisites instruct installing remote security tools at unpinned versions (gitleaks via @latest, trufflehog via unpinned pip), leaving the dependency supply chain unpinned even though the packages are official and the install docs are open.

go install github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/v8@latest
vector:instruction
Counter-argument considered

The quote is accurate and sits in the agent-readable skill body: the prerequisites instruct unpinned remote installs (`go install ...@latest`, bare `pip install trufflehog`), which fall outside the pinned-official-registry carve-out, so the low-confidence contextual_risk supply finding is not contradicted by any evidence; the openness of the install docs (declared claim D2 repeats the command verbatim) is correctly acknowledged by the finding itself and does not clear the unpinned-registry harm.