hsm-attack
hsm-attack is a Penetration testing & red team skill for AI agents, published by brucesongs in the kali-claw repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates hsm-attack F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Risky. This skill has patterns associated with unsafe behaviour. Read the source carefully before running it.
Hardware Security Module attacks — physical (side-channel, fault injection, decapping) and logical (PKCS#11 API abuse, key extraction, M-of-N quorum bypass, RDP, firmware exploitation). Covers Thales Luna (SafeNet), Utimaco SecurityServer, nCipher nShield, YubiHSM, AWS CloudHSM, Azure Dedicated HSM, Google Cloud HSM. Includes 2024-2025 CVEs (CVE-2024-47787 Thales Luna, CVE-2024-45294 Utimaco), HSM-as-a-Service tenant isolation attacks, and quorum-spoofing scenarios. Distinct from crypto-attacks (algorithm-level) and pam-privilege-attack (credential management).
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 45 / 100
- Safety
- Risky
- GitHub stars
- 39
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 87 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- High-risk patterns
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
What the scanner flagged
- exfiltration language
- references sensitive credential env
- mentions secrets in text
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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