Versioned security assessment

Report ID: SA-A78AE99C

6/30/2026, 12:22:32 AM

firecrawl-crawl security assessment v2

Skill Security Certification Report

Audit History

Audit model: codex Historical report

Skill name: firecrawl-crawl
Version: v2
Maintainer: firecrawl
Source: github.com/firecrawl/cli/tree/main/skills/firecrawl-crawl/
Coverage: 1 Files scanned · 59 Lines analyzed
Policy version: Unavailable

Confirmed finding summary

No confirmed security findings

The completed audit recorded no confirmed security findings. This is not proof that the Skill has no side effects.

Installation context

Historical evidence

This report may not describe the currently installable artifact. Open the current Skill page for install guidance.

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This report does not block or authorize the manifest or ZIP.

The skill intentionally grants Bash access to Firecrawl CLI commands that crawl user supplied URLs and write results to local files. The static weak cryptography, Ruby backtick, and path traversal alerts are false positives in Markdown descriptions and links, but the intended network crawling and output file behavior warrant a medium risk warning. No evidence found of prompt injection, credential exfiltration, hidden scripts, or malicious intent.

Report position

Historical report

Open audit history before using this report to install.

Audit attestation

Not attestable

The required immutable binding is incomplete.

Human verification

Not verified

No human verification is recorded for this report.

Coverage

1 Files scanned · 59 Lines analyzed

3 items shown for review

Limitations

This report does not claim runtime or sandbox execution and does not prove the absence of side effects.

Evidence chain

Follow the evidence from source binding to the install contract. Available evidence supports verification; it is not a safety guarantee.

Source

Binding unavailable
Artifact

Identity incomplete
Audit

Complete
Install contract

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Capabilities observed

Observed means this report recorded supporting evidence. Not recorded does not prove that a capability is absent.

Contains scripts

May execute code included with the Skill.

Not recorded by this audit

Network access

May connect to external services.

Observed in 2 evidence locations

Filesystem access

May read or write local files.

Observed in 2 evidence locations

Env variables

May read values from the process environment.

Not recorded by this audit

External commands

May invoke commands or programs outside the Skill.

Observed in 2 evidence locations

Capability review items (3)

Medium

SKILL.md:6-7 SKILL.md:22-30

External CLI Execution for Website Crawling

TRUE_POSITIVE: The skill allows Bash execution of firecrawl and npx firecrawl commands, then shows commands that crawl user supplied URLs. This is legitimate for the skill purpose, but it can access external sites and should be used only with authorized targets.

The allowed-tools block explicitly permits Firecrawl CLI execution, and the quick start shows crawl commands. The behavior is intentional and documented, with no evidence of hidden command construction.

Medium

SKILL.md:24-27 SKILL.md:50-52

Network Crawling Can Reach User Supplied Targets

TRUE_POSITIVE: The examples crawl a placeholder URL and describe bulk extraction from many pages. This creates normal web crawling risk, including accidental crawling of unauthorized, private, or high cost targets.

The skill purpose and command examples clearly require network crawling. The risk depends on user target selection, so this is elevated but not malicious.

Medium

SKILL.md:24-27 SKILL.md:46

User Controlled Output File Path

TRUE_POSITIVE: The documented commands write crawl results with -o, and the options table exposes --output <path>. A careless output path could overwrite local files or place crawl data in an unintended location.

The output path option is explicitly documented, but there is no wrapper code that expands or modifies paths. The practical risk is from user choice rather than malicious implementation.

Risk findings

Confirmed security concerns are separated from items that still need review.

No confirmed security findings were recorded for this completed audit.

Expert evidence

Immutable subject identity, scanner metadata, dismissed matches, and source-level evidence.

Artifact subject

Marketplace commit: Unavailable
Content hash: Unavailable
Tree hash: Unavailable
Skill path: Unavailable
Audit payload hash: Unavailable

Analysis metadata

Audit model: codex

Analysis state: Complete

Scope is limited to the recorded files, lines, methods, and evidence. No runtime or sandbox execution is claimed.

Static false positives ignored (3)

Low

SKILL.md:16 SKILL.md:37-46 SKILL.md:50-51

Markdown Backticks Misclassified as Shell Execution

FALSE_POSITIVE: The static Ruby or shell backtick alerts are Markdown inline code, command examples, or option names. They are documentation text, not Ruby execution syntax.

The flagged text appears inside Markdown bullets, fenced code blocks, and a Markdown table. SKILL.md contains no Ruby source or dynamic shell interpolation.

Low

SKILL.md:56-58

Relative Documentation Links Misclassified as Path Traversal

FALSE_POSITIVE: The ../ sequences are Markdown links to nearby skill documentation. They are not used as runtime file paths and do not read or write the filesystem.

The entire evidence is in the See also section as links to other SKILL.md files. There is no command or code path that consumes these links.

Low

SKILL.md:3 SKILL.md:35

Weak Cryptography Pattern Not Confirmed

FALSE_POSITIVE: The flagged lines contain front matter description text and a Markdown table header. No hashing, encryption, cipher selection, or cryptographic API appears in the file.

Manual review found no cryptographic operation at the reported locations or elsewhere in SKILL.md. The static detector matched unrelated prose or formatting.

Verify and export

JSON report CITATION.cff SARIF 2.1.0 Signed installation manifest

The manifest and lockfile bind install artifacts to cryptographic hashes. This integrity claim is separate from the security assessment.

Audit attestation: not_attestable