Security Audit

openai/skills:skills/.curated/transcribe

github.com/openai/skills

AI SkillCommit 49f948faa925

CRITICAL

Scanned about 10 hours ago

Critical

Immediate action required

High

Priority fixes suggested

Medium

Best practices review

Low

Acknowledged / Tracked

Trust Assessment

openai/skills:skills/.curated/transcribe received a trust score of 48/100, placing it in the Untrusted category. This skill has significant security findings that require attention before use in production.

SkillShield's automated analysis identified 3 findings: 1 critical, 1 high, 1 medium, and 0 low severity. Key findings include Unsafe environment variable passthrough, Credential harvesting, Sensitive environment variable access: $HOME.

The analysis covered 4 layers: Manifest Analysis, Static Code Analysis, Dependency Graph, LLM Behavioral Safety. The Manifest Analysis layer scored lowest at 55/100, indicating areas for improvement.

Last analyzed on July 17, 2026 (commit 49f948fa). SkillShield performs automated 4-layer security analysis on AI skills and MCP servers.

Layer Breakdown

Manifest Analysis

55%

Static Code Analysis

93%

Dependency Graph

100%

LLM Behavioral Safety

100%

Behavioral Risk Signals

Shell Execution

1 finding

Excessive Permissions

2 findings

Security Findings3

Severity	Finding	Layer	Location
CRITICAL	Credential harvesting Reading well-known credential environment variables Skills should only access environment variables they explicitly need. Bulk environment dumps (os.environ.copy, JSON.stringify(process.env)) are almost always malicious. Remove access to Keychain, GPG keys, and credential stores.	Manifest	skills/.curated/transcribe/scripts/transcribe_diarize.py:34
HIGH	Unsafe environment variable passthrough Access to well-known credential environment variables Minimize environment variable exposure. Only pass required, non-sensitive variables to MCP servers. Use dedicated secret management instead of environment passthrough.	Manifest	skills/.curated/transcribe/scripts/transcribe_diarize.py:34
MEDIUM	Sensitive environment variable access: $HOME Access to sensitive environment variable '$HOME' detected in shell context. Verify this environment variable access is necessary and the value is not exfiltrated.	Static	skills/.curated/transcribe/SKILL.md:43

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