The administrative credentials can be extracted through application API responses, mobile application reverse engineering, and device firmware reverse engineering. The exposure may result in an attacker gaining full administrative access to the Gardyn IoT Hub exposing connected devices to malicious control.

A Gardyn Azure IoT Hub connection string is downloaded over an insecure HTTP connection in Gardyn Home Kit firmware before master.619, Home Kit Mobile Application before 2.11.0, and Home Kit Cloud API before 2.12.2026 leaving the string vulnerable to interception and modification through a Man-in-the-Middle attack. This may result in the attacker capturing device credentials or taking control of vulnerable home kits.

Gardyn Home Kit firmware before master.619, Home Kit Mobile Application before 2.11.0, and Home Kit Cloud API before 2.12.2026 use weak default credentials for secure shell access. This may result in attackers gaining access to exposed Gardyn Home Kits.

Gardyn Home Kit Firmware allows a remote attacker with the corresponding ssh private key to achieve remote root access.

Gardyn Home Kit firmware before master.619, Home Kit Mobile Application before 2.11.0, and Home Kit Cloud API before 2.12.2026 allow command injection through vulnerable methods that do not sanitize input before passing content to the operating system for execution. The vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary operating system commands on a target Home Kit.