Hive Home

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This Hive Home skill is a disclosed smart-home control integration; it needs sensitive Hive credentials, but that access fits its stated purpose.

Install only if you want an agent to control your Hive devices. Store Hive credentials and HIVE_DEVICE_* keys in a trusted secret store or agent config, keep them out of chat and source control, and review heating, hot water, zone, boost, and mode commands before running them.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
87% confidence
Finding
The reference explicitly instructs storing deviceGroupKey, deviceKey, and devicePassword for later logins, but provides no guidance that these are sensitive authentication secrets requiring secure storage. In a skill context, such omission can lead implementers to persist long-lived credentials insecurely in logs, plain files, or agent memory, increasing the risk of account compromise and unauthorized control of home devices.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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