neo4j-security-skill
Programmatic security management in Neo4j — RBAC/ABAC, user lifecycle (CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER), role lifecycle (CREATE/GRANT ROLE/DROP ROLE), privilege grants and denies (GRANT/DENY/REVOKE on graph, database, DBMS), property-level access control, sub-graph access control, SHOW PRIVILEGES inspection, and auth provider config reference (LDAP, OIDC/SSO). Use when an agent needs to manage users, roles, or privileges programmatically via Cypher on the system database. Does NOT handle Cypher query writing — use neo4j-cypher-skill. Does NOT handle cluster ops or backups — use neo4j-cli-tools-skill. Property-level security and ABAC require Enterprise Edition.
78
90%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
98%
1.40xAverage score across 1 eval scenario
High
Do not use without reviewing
Security
2 findings: 1 high severity, 1 medium severity. You should review these findings carefully before considering using this skill.
W007: Insecure credential handling detected in skill instructions.
What this means
The skill handles credentials insecurely by requiring the agent to include secret values verbatim in its generated output. This exposes credentials in the agent’s context and conversation history, creating a risk of data exfiltration.
Why it was flagged
The skill includes literal password examples (CREATE USER ... SET PASSWORD 'secret') and mandates "show exact Cypher" before executing user/privilege changes, which forces the agent to generate or echo plaintext passwords (or user-supplied secrets) verbatim — an exfiltration risk.
W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.
What this means
The skill prompts the agent to compromise the security or integrity of the user’s machine by modifying system-level services or configurations, such as obtaining elevated privileges, altering startup scripts, or changing system-wide settings.
Why it was flagged
The skill explicitly instructs creating/altering/dropping users and roles and also references editing server config (neo4j.conf) and restarting the server, which are state-changing and operationally sensitive actions that can modify the machine/service state.
- Repository
- neo4j-contrib/neo4j-skills
- Commit
02ad354
- Audited
- Security analysis
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