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Bitwarden Vault CLI

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed Bitwarden CLI helper, but it needs careful handling because it can access vault secrets.

Install this only if you want the agent to operate Bitwarden CLI for specific vault tasks. Keep requests narrow, do not let secrets be printed or logged, avoid persistent shell exports or shared tmux sessions, lock or log out when finished, and clean up any downloaded secret files.

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 (4)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
Exporting secrets into environment variables can expose them to child processes, shell history patterns, debugging tools, crash reports, and process inspection depending on the platform and runtime. In a skill specifically focused on retrieving vault secrets, normalizing this pattern without warnings makes accidental secret leakage more likely.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding
Downloading sensitive attachments such as certificates directly to disk can leave recoverable secret material in the filesystem, backups, shared directories, or with overly broad permissions. The lack of warnings or guidance on destination, permissions, and cleanup increases the risk of local secret exposure.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The guide tells users to place Bitwarden API credentials and the session token into environment variables, but it does not warn that these values may be exposed through shell history, process inspection, inherited environments, logs, or other local-user access paths. In a secrets-management skill, normalizing unsafe handling of credentials increases the chance of vault compromise, especially in shared systems, CI, or remote shell sessions.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
91% confidence
Finding
The tmux workflow preserves an unlocked Bitwarden session and encourages detaching while the session remains available, without warning that anyone with local access to the account or tmux socket could reattach and use the active vault session. Because this skill is specifically about accessing a password vault, leaving live authenticated state behind is more dangerous than in ordinary CLI documentation.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.