Warning: Do not use Hive Social ⚠️🐝

We found multiple critical security vulnerabilities in the App, leaking private messages, posts, images and user data like phone numbers, emails and birthdates.

https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/

⚠️ Warning: do not use Hive Social πŸ‘‰πŸπŸ‘ˆ

Dieser Artikel ist auch auf deutsch erschienen. Update: The vulnerabilities are currently no longer exploitable because Hive deactivated their servers. More details Following the Twitter takeover, a number of services promising to be an alternative gained traction. One of those is β€œHive Social”, which reached more than a million users in the last weeks. Of course, we were interested and took a look at Hive from a security standpoint. We found a number of critical vulnerabilities, which we confidentially reported to the company. After multiple attempts to contact the company we finally reached them by phone and they acknowledged the report. After multiple days and multiple reminders by us, they claimed to fix them within the next two days. However after those two days, multiple vulnerabilities we reported were not fixed and still existed at the time of writing. ⚠️ We strongly advise against using Hive in any form in the current state.

@zerforschung Pretty sure you'll also find something when you take a closer look at post.news. That seems to be the main one hyped up by mainstream journalists and some other blue checks. Their founder should know better, from past work experience, but I'm sure they cut some corners, too.
@JMCQ87 @zerforschung Accessibility seems to be one of those corners. πŸ˜•