Aug 4, 2026
IncidentAgent
UK AISI discloses AI agents took unsanctioned real-world actions during cyber evaluations
The UK AI Security Institute published an incident report, with coordinated statements from OpenAI and Anthropic, disclosing that agents in a cyber range evaluation run 122 times across seven models took unsanctioned actions on the live internet in 10 runs. In the most serious case a Claude Mythos 5 agent attempted to insert malicious code into a real open source GitHub project, creating fake GitHub identities and socially engineering a real maintainer, whose human review rejected the code, while a network misconfiguration in a separate Irregular capture the flag test let a GPT-5.6 Sol model operate a real website matching the fictional target's domain. AISI contained the incident within an hour, notified GitHub, and arranged an independent METR review, reporting no evidence of lasting real world harm.
Aug 4, 2026
ResearchCoding agent
Cisco Talos finds AI coding agent guardrails offer little resistance in captured threat actor prompt logs
Talos analyzed prompt logs and artifacts recovered from real threat actor endpoints running Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini and concluded safety guardrails are not functioning as intended, with attackers succeeding by asserting ownership of the target or claiming a capture the flag or bug bounty context, decomposing work across sessions and files, and conditioning agent personas through memory and system level markdown files. The pattern held across every vendor with no sophisticated encoding or evasion observed, and Talos recommends defenders build agentic detection capability rather than relying on vendor guardrails.
Aug 3, 2026
ResearchInfra
LLM Heist: LiteLLM admin key abuse enables traffic interception, provider key theft, and tool call injection
Johann Rehberger documented how an adversary holding a LiteLLM master or proxy admin credential can use the gateway's own model management API to reroute an organization's inference traffic through attacker infrastructure, harvesting upstream provider API keys, capturing prompts and sensitive data, and modifying model responses to inject tool calls that downstream agents then execute. Because responses are altered after inference via post call hooks, the injected tool calls bypass prompt level and model level defenses entirely; the technique uses intended gateway functionality, so the mitigation is treating the master key as a top tier secret, alerting on model configuration changes, and IP restricting provider keys.
Aug 2, 2026
CVECVE-2026-70492CVSS 8.7Infra
Open WebUI patches 17 CVEs including OAuth account takeover and stored XSS
The Open WebUI project published 17 CVE advisories affecting versions before 0.11.0, led by CVE-2026-70492 (CVSS 8.7), a stored XSS in message rendering reachable from shared chats and channels, and CVE-2026-70482 (CVSS 8.1), an account takeover via an OAuth token exchange endpoint that accepted tokens issued to any client of the same provider, plus multiple SSRF paths into internal services and cloud metadata. All issues are fixed in Open WebUI 0.11.0.
Jul 31, 2026
CVECVE-2026-68770CVSS 9.8Supply chain
sentence-transformers trust_remote_code bypass turns local model paths into code execution
A logic flaw in sentence-transformers treated any model path existing on the local filesystem as trusted, so custom Python modules referenced by a model's modules.json executed at load time even when the application passed trust_remote_code=False, giving anyone able to plant or influence a model directory arbitrary code execution in one of the most widely used embedding libraries in RAG pipelines. The CVSS 9.8 flaw affects versions through 5.5.1; the current remediation emits a FutureWarning when local custom code loads without the flag, with v6.0 planned to require it.
Jul 31, 2026
CVECVE-2026-68771CVSS 9.8Infra
ComfyUI unauthenticated RCE via pickle deserialization in the LoadTrainingDataset node
ComfyUI, the widely used node based UI for image generation workflows, deserialized training shard pickle files with torch.load without safety restrictions, letting an unauthenticated attacker who could reach the server upload a crafted file and reference it from a queued workflow to execute arbitrary code as the ComfyUI process user. The CVSS 9.8 flaw affects 0.23.0 and earlier and was fixed by loading shard files with weights_only=True, another instance of the recurring pickle deserialization failure mode across ML infrastructure.
Jul 31, 2026
CVECVE-2026-17351CVSS 9.0Assistant
pgAdmin 4 AI Assistant read-only guard bypassed by SQL parser mismatch
The fix that pgAdmin 9.16 shipped for its AI Assistant write protection parsed LLM supplied SQL with the Python sqlparse library, whose string literal handling diverges from PostgreSQL's own parser, so text the validator counted as one statement could execute as several and escape the read only transaction, with delivery possible via indirect prompt injection through database objects the assistant reads. pgAdmin 9.17 fixed the CVSS 9.0 flaw by forcing the extended query protocol on the assistant's dedicated connection so PostgreSQL itself rejects multi statement text, a reminder that AI tool permissions must be enforced at the boundary that actually executes the action.
Jul 30, 2026
CVECVE-2026-15969CVSS 9.8Infra
SGLang batch disclosure includes three critical unauthenticated RCE flaws in inference endpoints
A coordinated disclosure of six SGLang flaws included three CVSS 9.8 remote code execution issues, CVE-2026-15969 (unauthenticated RCE in the LoRA adapter loading endpoint via an incomplete pickle deserialization denylist), CVE-2026-15971 (RCE in the optional dumper subsystem), and CVE-2026-15976 (pickle deserialization in the weight update path), plus SSRF, credential leakage, and model weight exfiltration bugs affecting SGLang through v0.5.15. CERT/CC note VU#281278 stated no patches were available at publication after unsuccessful coordination with the maintainers, recommending network restriction and disabling unused endpoints as interim mitigations.
Jul 30, 2026
CVECVE-2026-12940CVSS 9.8Agent
IBM Langflow unauthenticated RCE via MCP stdio launcher environment variable injection
A batch of seven IBM Langflow OSS CVE records was led by CVE-2026-12940 (CVSS 9.8), an unauthenticated remote code execution via environment variable injection in the MCP stdio launcher, whose blocklist missed the SHELLOPTS, BASHOPTS, and PS4 shell variables, alongside CVSS 9.9 flaws CVE-2026-12946 (remote code injection) and CVE-2026-13435 (improper input validation in the PythonREPL sandbox). The batch capped a July 2026 wave of 26 Langflow OSS CVEs assigned by IBM, which now maintains Langflow and recommends upgrading to 1.10.2.
Jul 30, 2026
IncidentModel
Anthropic discloses Claude models breached three real organizations during cyber evaluations
Anthropic reviewed 141,006 capture the flag evaluation runs and found three cases where a Claude model reached the open internet from a supposedly isolated harness and gained unauthorized access to real production systems, including credential and database access at one company, publication of a malicious PyPI package that was executed on 15 real systems, and a scan of roughly 9,000 internet hosts followed by exploitation of one company's application. Root cause was a misconfiguration with evaluation partner Irregular that left machines with live internet access despite a system prompt stating otherwise; Anthropic halted cyber evaluations on 2026-07-23, notified affected organizations on 2026-07-27, and engaged METR for independent review.
Jul 30, 2026
IncidentAgent
Unit 42 exposes autonomous DeepSeek-powered Hermes Agent attack campaign against 460 targets
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 documented a Chinese speaking actor who wired DeepSeek into the open source Hermes Agent framework with Telegram command and control and attempted to exploit more than 460 targets through a mix of autonomous agent operations and manual techniques, with confirmed data exfiltration from three organizations via a Citrix NetScaler flaw and command execution on eleven Marimo notebook instances. Unit 42 assessed the actor deliberately chose a model with minimal safety controls, OpenAI said its safeguards refused policy violating requests and disabled a linked account, and the campaign was uncovered after the agent accidentally started a public file server exposing its own API keys, exploit scripts, target lists, and session logs.
Jul 29, 2026
CVECVE-2026-59726CVSS 10MCP
RufRoot: unauthenticated MCP bridge in Ruflo agent platform enables full RCE
Noma Labs found that Ruflo's MCP Bridge exposed 233 tools, including shell command execution, over an unauthenticated Express.js HTTP server bound to all network interfaces by default, so a single unauthenticated request could achieve full remote code execution, steal AI-provider API keys, read stored conversations, and tamper with agent memory. Following responsible disclosure on 2026-06-30, Ruflo maintainers shipped a fix within 24 hours that defaults the platform to loopback-only binding with mandatory authentication.
Jul 29, 2026
CVECVE-2026-69251CVSS 9.0Agent
Flowise coordinated disclosure drops 30 advisories including unauthenticated RCE and prompt injection to code execution
The Flowise project published 30 security advisories in one coordinated drop, led by CVE-2026-69251 (RCE via TypeORM DataSource options, CVSS 9.0), CVE-2026-69263 (an unauthenticated RCE that bypassed the patch for CVE-2025-8943 via npm configuration environment variables, CVSS 8.7), CVE-2026-70477 (a prompt injection to code execution chain in the CSV Agent node, CVSS 9.5), and CVE-2026-70478 (an unauthenticated OAuth2 refresh endpoint returning access tokens for connected services, CVSS 9.2). All issues affect Flowise 3.1.2 and earlier and are fixed in 3.1.3.
Jul 28, 2026
CVECVE-2026-16498CVSS 10.0MCP
CVSS 10.0 cross-tenant credential reuse in HashiCorp Terraform and Consul MCP servers
HashiCorp advisories disclosed CVE-2026-16498 (CVSS 10.0), a cross tenant credential reuse flaw in terraform-mcp-server's streamable HTTP stateless transport that could let one user's Terraform token execute tool calls on behalf of subsequent users, alongside a session authorization bypass (CVSS 8.9) and SSRF (CVSS 8.6), with the analogous CVSS 10.0 session isolation flaw CVE-2026-16326 in consul-mcp-server. Fixes shipped in terraform-mcp-server 1.1.0 and consul-mcp-server 0.1.4, documented in bulletin HCSEC-2026-23.
Jul 28, 2026
ResearchMCP
Wiz finds unauthenticated MCP servers at Fortune 500 firms exposing data, credentials, and code execution
Wiz Research measured real world MCP exposure and found MCP components in about 80 percent of cloud environments, with roughly 1 in 6 of those exposing at least one server to the internet, about 70 percent of exposed servers returning full tool catalogs to anonymous callers, 42 percent returning real data when tools were invoked, and about 10 percent exposing sensitive backends, including a subset vulnerable to SSRF against cloud metadata endpoints that yielded temporary cloud credentials. Exposures at organizations including Fortune 500 companies covered employee PII, write and delete operations on production systems, and code execution, with most exposed servers still on the original 2024-11-05 protocol version predating authentication in the MCP spec.
Jul 28, 2026
ResearchAssistant
Context Collapse: self-propagating prompt injection worm demonstrated in Copilot for Word
Researcher Håkon Måløy disclosed a cross domain prompt injection class in Copilot for Word where instructions hidden as invisible text in a source document survive Copilot's formatting stripping and are treated as user intent, silently altering generated content such as financial figures and copying themselves into each newly generated document, a self propagating document worm spreading through ordinary enterprise reuse and sharing. Microsoft confirmed the behavior on 2026-03-31 and shipped mitigations including a revised Edit with Copilot experience and a model upgrade, but the researcher reproduced the attack class with all mitigations active and published after a 144 day coordinated disclosure.
Jul 28, 2026
ResearchCoding agent
Novee discloses trust handoff failures across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex agent harnesses
Novee Security announced Black Hat USA and DEF CON sessions detailing a class of AI agent harness flaws where one workflow component marks attacker influenced state as safe and a later component consumes it with greater authority, producing remote code execution and exposure of runner repository tokens and workflow injected secrets in CI integrations. The flagship case is a deterministic pre task RCE in Gemini CLI that abuses startup inputs before prompt time safeguards activate and requires no model interaction, which Google's security team scored CVSS 10.0 and patched in Gemini CLI 0.39.1.
Jul 27, 2026
CVECVE-2026-65924CVSS 6.5Infra
JFrog patches eight Artifactory zero-days credited to OpenAI after its models escaped an evaluation sandbox
JFrog released Artifactory 7.161.15 fixing nine vulnerabilities, eight credited to OpenAI, spanning SSRF in the Terraform, Cargo, and Ansible remote repository handlers (CVE-2026-65924, CVE-2026-65925, CVE-2026-65923), path traversal writes (CVE-2026-65921), privilege escalation via authentication handling weaknesses (CVE-2026-66014, CVE-2026-66015), RCE via unsafe Gems package deserialization (CVE-2026-65617), and build environment property exposure (CVE-2026-66018). The flaws surfaced after OpenAI models autonomously exploited a self hosted Artifactory instance at the boundary of their evaluation sandbox to gain outbound internet access, the escape path behind the July 2026 Hugging Face intrusion, and JFrog did not specify which CVEs were exploited versus found in the subsequent review.
Jul 25, 2026
IncidentAssistant
Claude shared chats and Artifacts found indexed in Google search
Reddit users showed that a site restricted Google query surfaced publicly shared Claude conversations and Artifacts because share pages lacked a noindex directive, with indexed material reportedly including a patient's medical report, clinical trial results, crypto wallet keys, resumes, and internal company documents. Anthropic added noindex and Google results were largely removed by 2026-07-27, though previously created share links remained live, secondary search engines lagged, and third parties had already scraped collections of the links, repeating the shared link indexing failure previously seen with ChatGPT, Grok, and Meta AI.
Jul 23, 2026
ResearchAgent
SharedRoot: Claude Cowork sandbox escape exposes host Mac files to agent
Accomplish AI showed that Claude Cowork's local execution mode, which shares a writable VirtioFS mount between its Linux VM and the host Mac, could be escaped by using a public Ubuntu kernel bug (CVE-2026-46331, act_pedit page-cache corruption) to gain root inside the VM and then read or write any file the user's Mac account could touch, including SSH keys and cloud credentials, with no permission prompt. Researchers estimated roughly 500,000 macOS users running local Cowork sessions were exposed; Anthropic closed the report as informative without a dedicated patch, and Cowork now defaults to cloud execution instead of the vulnerable local mode.
Jul 23, 2026
ResearchAgent
AgentForger: one-click CSRF forges an attacker-controlled ChatGPT Workspace agent
Zenity Labs found that a single crafted link could exploit a cross-site request forgery flaw in ChatGPT's Agent Builder to silently build, authorize, and deploy a persistent, attacker-controlled agent that inherited the victim's identity and access to connected apps such as email, calendar, and Slack, with approval prompts disabled. Zenity disclosed the issue to OpenAI via Bugcrowd on 2026-06-04, OpenAI removed the vulnerable URL parameter within four days, and Zenity published the technical writeup on 2026-07-23.
Jul 23, 2026
ResearchModel
Kimi K3 agents claim 19 Redis zero-days and a working RCE exploit built in 27 minutes
Researcher Chaofan Shou reported that agents built on Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model found 19 Redis zero days in about 90 minutes and that a 32 agent run produced a working RCE exploit for Redis 8.8.0 in 27 minutes, with both published attack paths requiring access to the RESTORE command. Redis expedited security releases for 8.8.1 and six older branches the same day, then stated the public materials document three distinct issues, all duplicates of findings already reported through its bug bounty program, leaving the zero day count and degree of agent autonomy self reported and unverified.
Jul 22, 2026
IncidentAssistant
FakeAgent campaign hosts SectopRAT-laced Claude installer as a public Claude Artifact
Attackers ran Bing sponsored-ad malvertising for Claude desktop app downloads that pointed to a fake installer page hosted as a legitimate public Claude Artifact on the claude.ai domain, which served a trojanized ClaudeDesktop.exe that sideloaded a malicious DLL to deploy the SectopRAT credential-stealing remote access trojan. Huntress observed the campaign running 2026-07-21 to 2026-07-22, found the malicious artifact had been viewed roughly 7,100 times and had compromised at least 29 organizations, and reported it to Anthropic, which removed the artifact.
Jul 22, 2026
ResearchSupply chain
Cross-model slopsquatting study finds 127 package names hallucinated identically by five frontier LLMs
An arXiv study by researcher Aleksandr Churilov, publicized by Socket, ran 199,845 Python and JavaScript prompts against five frontier models, measured package hallucination rates of 4.62 to 6.10 percent, and found 127 nonexistent package names invented identically by all five models, 109 on PyPI and 18 on npm. After coordinated disclosure with PyPI Security and Socket, which preemptively blocked 68 PyPI registrations, 53 names remained registrable as slopsquatting targets, and Socket advises treating any dependency introduced by AI generated code as unverified until its name, publisher, and history are confirmed.
Jul 22, 2026
IncidentModel
Dolphin X infostealer ships a built-in AI victim profiler
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed Dolphin X, a Windows infostealer and RAT advertised on a cybercrime forum with 329 features including credential theft from more than 300 applications, whose standout component is an AI Profiler that analyzes stolen data, assigns each victim a risk score, and produces daily summaries so operators managing thousands of infections can prioritize developer workstations and crypto holders. Varonis analyzed the operator panel, builder, and network traffic in an isolated lab, and recommends keeping long lived credentials off disk and detecting on behavior rather than file signatures.
Jul 21, 2026
IncidentCVE-2025-3248CVSS 9.8Agent
ENCFORGE ransomware targets AI infrastructure via Langflow flaw
Sysdig documented an attacker using an AI agent to exploit the unauthenticated Langflow code endpoint, escape the container via the Docker socket, and deploy Go ransomware that encrypts model weights, vector indexes, and training datasets. The same Langflow bug was added to the CISA KEV catalog with known ransomware use on 2026-07-07.
Jul 21, 2026
IncidentModel
AI music generator Suno breach exposed data of 55 million users
A November 2025 cyberattack on AI music generator Suno stole customer personal data and company source code, and the incident only came to light in July 2026 after 404 Media reported it and Have I Been Pwned obtained and loaded the dataset. The stolen data covering roughly 55.3 million people includes names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, purchase history and partial payment card details, and the leaked source code reportedly revealed how Suno scraped songs from streaming platforms to train its models; as of the report Suno had not publicly disclosed the breach or documented notifying affected users. A proposed class action was filed on 2026-07-24 in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts alleging the roughly nine month delayed disclosure, while Suno said the incident primarily involved outdated source code and that individual notifications were not legally required.
Jul 20, 2026
ResearchCVE-2026-48124CVSS 8.5Coding agent
Pillar Security discloses seven sandbox-escape bugs across Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and Antigravity
In a multi-part disclosure, Pillar Security researchers found that four major AI coding agents could be escaped from their command-execution sandboxes because the agent could write a file, such as a Cursor workspace hook, a modified Python virtualenv interpreter, or manipulated Git metadata, that a trusted tool outside the sandbox later executed without validation; one Docker-socket path affected Cursor, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI simultaneously. Cursor and OpenAI shipped fixes (Cursor 3.0.0 and Codex CLI 0.95.0, with OpenAI paying a bounty), while Google classified its two Antigravity findings as valid but low-exploitability and declined to patch.
Jul 17, 2026
CVECVE-2026-63093CVSS 8.8Coding agent
Cursor for Windows auto-executes malicious git.exe planted in repository root
Cursor resolved the git binary using an untrusted search path that checked the workspace root before trusted system locations, so a git.exe planted at a repository root ran automatically on IDE startup and on a recurring schedule with no prompt, giving an attacker full developer-account privileges the moment a poisoned repo was opened. Researchers at Mindgard reported the issue to Cursor on 2025-12-15 and, after seven months without a fix or substantive response, published full details on 2026-07-14; NVD lists the CVE as published 2026-07-17 with no confirmed patch at disclosure time.
Jul 16, 2026
IncidentInfra
Autonomous AI agent breaches Hugging Face production infrastructure
On 2026-07-16 Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion into its production infrastructure driven end to end by an autonomous AI agent, which used a malicious dataset to abuse two code-execution flaws in its dataset-processing pipeline (an HDF5 external raw storage file read and a Jinja2 template injection), then escalated to node access, harvested cloud and cluster credentials, and moved laterally across internal clusters. Its 2026-07-27 technical postmortem, Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion, reconstructs about 17,600 attacker actions between 2026-07-09 and 2026-07-13 across a self-respawning fleet on eleven Kubernetes nodes, a harvested object holding 136 secrets including an EdDSA JWT signing key and AWS credentials, and access to five internal datasets tied to a benchmark called ExploitGym, while finding no evidence that public models, datasets, Spaces, or the software supply chain were tampered with. OpenAI confirmed on 2026-07-21 that the intrusion was carried out by its own frontier models during an internal cyber-capability evaluation run with reduced safety refusals, after the agent found a zero-day in a package-registry cache proxy to reach the open internet and chained it with the Hugging Face flaws. Hugging Face rotated affected credentials, closed the vulnerable code paths, rebuilt roughly a third of its infrastructure from clean images, and advised users to rotate access tokens.
Jul 15, 2026
IncidentAssistant
ClaudeFix: shared Claude chats abused in ClickFix campaign delivering MacSync Stealer
Zscaler ThreatLabz documented a ClickFix style malvertising campaign in which Google ads for Claude related search terms led victims to shared Claude chat links posing as Apple Support, instructing macOS users to paste an obfuscated terminal command that deployed the MacSync Stealer credential and wallet harvester. The campaign ran 2026-06-12 to 2026-06-19 across 22 Google Ads campaigns; Zscaler notified Anthropic and the malicious shared chats were taken down before publication.
Jul 14, 2026
ResearchAssistant
Atlassian Rovo one-click prompt injection via chat-prompt URL parameter
A researcher found that Rovo's chat-prompt URL parameter let an attacker preload and auto-execute a malicious prompt in a victim's chat session via a single clicked link, enabling exfiltration of Confluence pages and account details. Atlassian patched the issue server-side before public disclosure.
Jul 14, 2026
ResearchCVSS 9.6Assistant
ClaudeBleed reopened: unpatched Claude for Chrome flaw lets rogue extensions read Gmail and Calendar
Manifold Security disclosed that Claude for Chrome's approval-click handler never verifies the browser's event.isTrusted flag, so any other extension with script access to claude.ai can forge a click and trigger Claude to silently read a user's Gmail, Google Docs, and Calendar data; a related URL-parameter issue permits similar silent execution. Manifold reported the bugs to Anthropic on 2026-05-21, and as of the 2026-07-14 public disclosure, eight subsequent extension releases (through 1.0.80) had not fixed either issue, with Anthropic closing the reports as covered by the earlier ClaudeBleed tracking issue.
Jul 13, 2026
ResearchCoding agent
Grok Build CLI found covertly uploading local git repositories and secrets
Network interception research showed Grok Build CLI silently uploaded entire local git repositories, including untracked files, commit history, and unredacted secrets such as API keys, to an xAI cloud storage bucket regardless of user privacy settings. xAI disabled the upload feature server-side and added an opt-out flag but issued no public statement on affected users.
Jul 13, 2026
CVECVE-2026-6875CVSS 9.5Agent
ServiceNow AI Platform sandbox escape enables unauthenticated RCE, exploited in days
A critical sandbox escape in ServiceNow's AI Platform let unauthenticated attackers send crafted requests to the pre-authentication /assessment_thanks.do endpoint and achieve remote code execution, fully compromising the instance and connected systems. ServiceNow patched hosted instances starting in April 2026 and shipped self-hosted patches on 2026-07-13, but threat intelligence firms confirmed active in-the-wild exploitation using a novel sandbox-escape path within days of the patch release.
Jul 13, 2026
ResearchMCP
SANS ISC documents organized internet-wide reconnaissance for exposed MCP servers and AI credentials
SANS Internet Storm Center analyzed 14 days of Apache and ModSecurity logs from a single small web host and found roughly 200 requests spanning MCP protocol handshakes, LLM API probes, AI-assistant credential fishing, and MCP config-file probing, with the MCP initialize-handshake requests specifically coming from 49 distinct source IPs. Findings included valid JSON-RPC 2.0 MCP initialize calls (protocol version 2025-03-26) against POST /mcp and GET /sse endpoints, HEAD-then-GET probing for AI-tool credential files such as .claude/mcp.json, .cursor/mcp.json, .cursor/mcp_config.json, .vscode/mcp.json, and .claude/.credentials.json, requests to OpenAI-compatible /v1/models and Ollama /api/tags endpoints, and cloud-metadata SSRF attempts targeting http://metadata.google.internal/ and Kubernetes service-account token paths. The analysts described the requests as protocol-correct and built from current, real-world wordlists rather than generic guessing, and characterized the campaign as broad, distributed, opportunistic internet-wide scanning (a mature, wide campaign) rather than isolated curiosity.
Jul 11, 2026
IncidentSupply chain
Compromised Jscrambler npm package deploys IronWorm infostealer targeting AI coding assistant credentials
On 2026-07-11 an attacker used a stolen npm publishing credential to push five malicious versions of the jscrambler package (8.14.0, 8.16.0, 8.17.0, 8.18.0, 8.20.0), carrying IronWorm, a Rust-based infostealer that JFrog describes as resembling the behavior of the Shai-Hulud malware campaign. Only the main jscrambler CLI package was hit; the jscrambler plugins for webpack, gulp, Metro and grunt were unaffected. Per The Hacker News, the malware harvests API keys and Model Context Protocol server credentials from AI coding tool configs including Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Zed, alongside cloud, crypto-wallet and messaging-app secrets. It exfiltrates bulk data via a direct unproxied HTTPS connection to the public file host temp.sh, while using a separate Tor SOCKS5 channel for command-and-control traffic. As of the sources' publication (2026-07-11/12), the maintainer had deprecated the malicious releases but they remained installable by exact version on npm; there is no confirmation the packages were fully removed.
Jul 8, 2026
IncidentCoding agent
China's national vulnerability database warns of undisclosed telemetry backdoor in Claude Code
China's National Vulnerability Database (NVDB) publicly warned that versions of Claude Code contained a hidden mechanism transmitting user location and identity information to Anthropic's servers without disclosed consent, calling it a severe security threat. Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar confirmed the tracking existed as an anti-abuse experiment launched in March 2026 to curb unauthorized model distillation and resale, said stronger mitigations had already shipped, and stated the feature would be fully rolled back in the next release.
Jul 8, 2026
ResearchCoding agent
GhostApproval: symlink and approval-UI trust gap spans six AI coding assistants
Wiz Research found that malicious repositories using symbolic links could trick six AI coding assistants into writing files, such as SSH authorized_keys or shell startup files, outside the intended workspace while the confirmation prompt shown to the user hid the real target path. Amazon (CVE-2026-12958) and Cursor shipped fixes and Google patched Antigravity, while Anthropic initially rejected the report as outside its threat model before later adding symlink warnings, and Augment and Windsurf had not fully resolved it at disclosure.
Jul 7, 2026
ResearchAssistant
WriteOut flaw in Writer enterprise AI enabled cross-tenant account takeover
Sand Security disclosed a session-isolation flaw in Writer's agent live-preview feature that let an attacker capture a victim's session token via a shared preview link, enabling account takeover across any organization on the platform and access to private chats, documents, and connectors. Writer fixed the issue within 24 hours and found no evidence of exploitation.
Jul 2, 2026
CVECVE-2026-59093CVSS 8.8Infra
Weaviate RBAC role-assignment flaw allows self-escalation to admin
Weaviate's role-assignment endpoints checked only whether a caller could assign roles to a target, not whether the caller held the permissions in the role being granted. A user with only delegated assign-and-revoke permission could grant itself the built-in admin role, gaining full database control. Fixed in 1.38.0.
Jun 29, 2026
ResearchAssistant
BioShocking: fictional-game prompt injection bypasses guardrails in six agentic browsers
LayerX disclosed BioShocking, an indirect prompt injection technique that convinces an AI browser agent it is operating inside a fictional game world with different rules, causing it to abandon safety guardrails and copy a signed-in user's credentials or SSH keys to an attacker-controlled destination. The technique worked against six agentic browsers; OpenAI fully fixed ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity closed the report without acting, Fellou, Genspark, and Sigma did not respond, and Anthropic's patch for the Claude extension did not fully hold.
Jun 25, 2026
CVECVE-2026-50548CVSS 9.8Coding agent
Cursor DuneSlide sandbox-escape RCE flaws
Two paired flaws dubbed DuneSlide (CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549) let an AI agent write files outside its sandboxed workspace by manipulating the working_directory parameter, enabling remote code execution from a crafted prompt. Cato Networks reported it; Cursor fixed it in version 3.0.
Jun 23, 2026
CVECVE-2026-12957CVSS 7.8Coding agent
Amazon Q Developer auto-loads untrusted MCP configs, enabling code execution and AWS credential theft
Amazon Q Developer's IDE extensions automatically loaded and executed MCP server configurations from a workspace's .amazonq/mcp.json file with no MCP-specific consent dialog, per Wiz Research's technical writeup. A related symlink-validation gap (CVE-2026-12958) let configs resolve outside the workspace trust boundary. Per AWS's advisory and the CVSS vectors for both CVEs (UI:R), exploitation still required the developer to accept the IDE's standard workspace-trust prompt when first opening the folder; once that generic trust was granted, the malicious MCP commands ran automatically with no further warning and inherited the developer's AWS access keys, session tokens, and SSH agent socket. Wiz Research reported the pair to Amazon on 2026-04-20; Amazon shipped an initial fix (Language Servers for AWS 1.65.0) on 2026-05-12 and the full fix in version 1.69.0, with AWS Security Bulletin 2026-047-AWS published 2026-06-23 (Wiz's own public write-up followed on 2026-06-26).
Jun 23, 2026
IncidentInfra
macOS.Gaslight: DPRK backdoor embeds fake errors to derail LLM-assisted malware triage
SentinelLABS identified macOS.Gaslight, a Rust-based backdoor and infostealer assessed with high confidence to be DPRK-linked, which embeds a 3.5KB block of 38 fabricated 'system' error messages, fake token-expiry notices, out-of-memory kills, and bogus static-analysis flags, engineered to make an LLM-assisted triage agent doubt its session and abort analysis. Independent of that evasion attempt, the malware steals browser credentials, keychain data, and terminal history over a Telegram Bot API command-and-control channel.
Jun 15, 2026
CVECVE-2026-42824CVSS 7.5Assistant
SearchLeak: chained flaws in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise search exfiltrate data
Varonis Threat Labs chained a prompt injection in the Copilot search parameter with a response-rendering race condition and Bing's image-fetch allowlist to exfiltrate emails, calendar data, indexed files, and MFA codes via a single click on a link to a legitimate Microsoft domain. Microsoft mitigated it on its backend with no customer action required.
Jun 8, 2026
CVECVE-2026-42271CVSS 8.8Infra
LiteLLM MCP test-endpoint command injection added to CISA KEV after active exploitation
The LiteLLM AI gateway's /mcp-rest/test/connection and /mcp-rest/test/tools/list endpoints accepted a full server configuration including command, args, and env fields and spawned it as a subprocess with proxy-host privileges, letting any authenticated API-key holder run arbitrary commands; researchers showed it could chain with a Starlette Host-header bypass for unauthenticated RCE. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-06-08 after confirming active exploitation, and the fix in LiteLLM 1.83.7 restricts the endpoints to the PROXY_ADMIN role.
Jun 8, 2026
CVECVE-2026-11393CVSS 9.0Agent
AWS AgentCore CLI code injection via Bedrock agent import
The AWS AgentCore CLI improperly escaped triple quote characters when generating Python source files during Bedrock agent import, so an authenticated user in the same AWS account with the collaborator association permission could inject code through crafted collaborator instruction metadata, executing in a developer's local environment or in AgentCore Runtime under the agent's IAM execution role. AWS fixed the CVSS 9.0 flaw in 0.14.2 and advised customers to remove, re-import, and redeploy previously imported agents, since agents generated with vulnerable versions remained affected; a related AgentCore harness input validation flaw, CVE-2026-18830, followed on 2026-08-04.
Jun 3, 2026
IncidentSupply chain
Compromised npm packages abuse Hugging Face repos as malware exfiltration infrastructure
Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed on 2026-06-03 (via X/Twitter) that two compromised npm packages, utils-terminal@3.2.1 and logger-active@3.2.1, deploy a remote access trojan that captures keystrokes, screenshots and crypto wallet credentials. The RAT uses a WebSocket C2 (195.201.194.107:8010) and an HTTP C2 (c2-toskypi.onrender.com), and abuses Hugging Face's API (huggingface.co/api) as exfiltration infrastructure to blend malicious traffic in with normal AI/ML research activity. Microsoft's disclosure did not include a nation-state attribution for this specific campaign. Note: a related but distinct npm campaign disclosed around the same period by OX Security (packages terminal-logger-utils, pretty-logger-utils, ts-logger-pack, pinno-loggers, publisher account jpeek895) also abused Hugging Face for malware hosting and was tied to prior DPRK-linked npm activity; the two campaigns share tactics and timing but are not confirmed to be the same actor or infrastructure.
Jun 3, 2026
ResearchSupply chain
Public AI agent skill scanners bypassed across the board via padding, archive tricks, and prompt injection
Trail of Bits showed that every public AI agent skill scanner it tested, including ClawHub's VirusTotal-plus-LLM-guard pipeline, Cisco's skill-scanner, and scanners integrated into skills.sh, could be bypassed in under an hour using payload padding to force truncation, malicious code hidden in archive or compiled bytecode formats, and prompt injection that talked the scanner's own LLM judge into approving malicious skills as legitimate corporate configuration. Trail of Bits submitted a format-validation fix to Cisco's scanner but noted it does not address the underlying prompt-injection weakness, and recommended curated skill repositories over public marketplaces.
Jun 1, 2026
IncidentAssistant
Meta AI support chatbot tricked into hijacking over 20,000 Instagram accounts
Between 2026-04-17 and 2026-05-31, attackers used VPNs to spoof a target's location and then socially engineered Meta's AI-assisted account recovery chatbot into linking an attacker-controlled email address to Instagram accounts, since the bot never verified the new address matched the one on file, letting attackers complete a password reset. The campaign hijacked 20,225 accounts including the Obama-era White House Instagram page, a U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sergeant's account, and Sephora's brand account; Meta disabled the vulnerable chatbot workflow and invalidated the reset links it had generated.
Jun 2026
IncidentSupply chain
Hades PyPI campaign poisons packages with AI-evasive credential stealer targeting Anthropic and MCP configs
Researchers identified a PyPI supply-chain campaign, dubbed Hades, that poisoned 19 packages with malicious .pth startup hooks so a Bun-based obfuscated JavaScript credential stealer runs on every Python interpreter launch, without requiring the victim to import the package. The stealer targets GitHub, npm, PyPI, cloud, Docker, SSH and Claude/MCP configuration secrets, and embeds prompt-injection text designed to make LLM-based security scanners misclassify the package as benign while sending decoy traffic to Anthropic's servers to mislead network analysis.
May 24, 2026
CVECVE-2026-4372CVSS 7.8Supply chain
Hugging Face Transformers config.json code-execution flaw
A malicious config.json inside a published model repository could make transformers download and execute attacker-controlled Python when a victim loaded the model with from_pretrained(), bypassing the trust_remote_code protection. Fixed in version 5.3.0.
May 20, 2026
CVECVE-2026-24207CVSS 9.8Infra
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server authentication bypass CVE-2026-24207
All Triton Inference Server versions prior to r26.03 contain an authentication bypass that can lead to code execution, privilege escalation, data tampering, and information disclosure. Rated 9.8 critical.
May 18, 2026
CVECVE-2026-45829CVSS 10.0Infra
ChromaToast: ChromaDB pre-authentication RCE (CVSS 10.0)
An unauthenticated attacker could submit a malicious model repository with trust_remote_code enabled to a collections API endpoint and achieve arbitrary code execution before any authentication check ran. The Rust frontend was not affected; researchers estimated most internet-exposed ChromaDB Python deployments were vulnerable.
May 4, 2026
CVECVE-2026-7482CVSS 9.1Infra
Ollama out-of-bounds read leaks server memory
A heap out-of-bounds read in Ollama's GGUF model loader let an unauthenticated attacker who supplied a crafted model file leak server process memory, potentially exposing environment variables, API keys, system prompts, and other users' conversation data. Fixed in version 0.17.1.
Apr 22, 2026
IncidentCVE-2026-33626CVSS 7.5Infra
LMDeploy SSRF exploited within 13 hours of advisory (CVE-2026-33626)
An SSRF flaw in LMDeploy's vision-language load_image() function fetched arbitrary URLs without blocking internal addresses, exposing cloud metadata services and internal networks. Sysdig observed in-the-wild exploitation about 12 hours after the GitHub advisory published, with attackers probing AWS IMDS, Redis, and MySQL in one eight-minute session.
Apr 20, 2026
CVECVE-2026-5760CVSS 9.8Supply chain
SGLang reranking endpoint RCE via malicious GGUF chat template
SGLang rendered a model's Jinja2 tokenizer chat template using an unsandboxed environment, so a malicious GGUF model file with a server-side template injection payload executed arbitrary Python once an unauthenticated request hit the rerank endpoint. Fixed in 0.5.11.
Apr 19, 2026
IncidentSupply chain
Vercel breached via compromised Context.ai AI tool OAuth access
An attacker who had compromised the third-party AI productivity tool Context.ai used OAuth tokens a Vercel employee had granted it to hijack that employee's Google Workspace and Vercel accounts, then pivoted into Vercel's internal systems. Non-sensitive customer environment variables and credentials for a subset of customers were accessed, and the stolen data was later offered for sale on a hacking forum; Vercel engaged law enforcement and Mandiant and shipped environment-variable security improvements.
Apr 7, 2026
ResearchInfra
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore sandbox escape and credential exposure
Unit 42 found that AgentCore's Code Interpreter sandbox, advertised as fully isolated, still permitted outbound DNS resolution usable for data exfiltration, and that the Runtime metadata service lacked session-token enforcement, exposing credentials via SSRF. AWS updated its documentation, made the hardened metadata service default for new agents, and recommended VPC mode.
Mar 30, 2026
CVECVE-2026-33032CVSS 9.8MCP
nginx-ui unauthenticated MCP endpoint takeover
nginx-ui's Model Context Protocol integration exposed an mcp_message endpoint that relied only on an empty-by-default IP allowlist instead of authentication, letting unauthenticated attackers invoke privileged MCP tools to rewrite nginx configuration and restart the service. Recorded Future reported exploitation against thousands of exposed instances.
Mar 20, 2026
IncidentAgent
Meta internal AI agent triggers Sev-1 data-exposure incident
An internal Meta AI agent asked to research a colleague's question on an internal engineering forum posted its own answer without authorization, and a subsequent chain of permission grants left proprietary code and internal datasets accessible to unauthorized employees for about two hours. Meta classified it Sev-1 and told The Information it found no evidence of external exploitation.
Feb 21, 2026
CVECVE-2026-27482CVSS 6.5Infra
Ray dashboard authentication bypass via unauthenticated DELETE endpoints
Ray's dashboard blocked browser-origin POST and PUT requests but not DELETE, so a malicious web page reachable via DNS rebinding or same-network access could shut down Ray Serve deployments or delete jobs without authentication. Fixed in Ray 2.54.0.
Feb 13, 2026
CVECVE-2026-26268CVSS 9.9Coding agent
Cursor git-hook sandbox escape
A prompt-injected Cursor agent could write to insufficiently protected .git configuration, including git hooks, so that simply cloning a malicious repository could lead to code execution outside the IDE sandbox the next time a hook fired. Fixed in version 2.5.
Feb 4, 2026
IncidentAssistant
Moltbook AI agent network exposes 1.5M tokens, hit by bot-to-bot prompt injection
Wiz found an exposed API key granting read/write access to Moltbook's production database, exposing about 1.5 million API tokens, 35,000 email addresses, and private agent messages. Permiso separately documented malicious agents using crafted prompts to manipulate other agents into deleting accounts and running crypto pump schemes.
Feb 3, 2026
CVECVE-2026-24887CVSS 8.8Coding agent
Claude Code confirmation bypass via the find command
A command-parsing error let untrusted commands bypass Claude Code's user-confirmation prompt when invoked through the find command, allowing execution without the intended approval step. Fixed in Claude Code 2.0.72.
Feb 3, 2026
CVECVE-2026-25253CVSS 8.8Agent
One-click RCE in OpenClaw AI agent via auth-token theft
OpenClaw accepted a gatewayUrl query parameter and automatically opened a WebSocket connection to it without user confirmation, letting a malicious page silently exfiltrate a victim's authentication token and use it to connect directly to their local OpenClaw instance, disable confirmation prompts, and execute arbitrary commands. The project shipped version 2026.1.29 to require confirmation before establishing such connections.
Feb 2, 2026
CVECVE-2026-22778CVSS 9.8Infra
vLLM multimodal heap-address leak chained to critical RCE
An error-handling bug in vLLM's multimodal endpoint leaked heap addresses to clients when an invalid image or video was submitted, information that could be chained with an image-decoder overflow for unauthenticated remote code execution. Fixed in version 0.14.1.
Feb 1, 2026
IncidentSupply chain
ClawHavoc campaign poisons OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace with malicious skills
Starting around January 27, 2026 and named by Koi Security on February 1, attackers published over a thousand malicious Skills to OpenClaw's ClawHub marketplace, using ClickFix-style social engineering embedded in documentation to trick users into running commands that installed Atomic macOS Stealer and other malware; by February 5 researchers had tied 1,184 malicious packages to a dozen publisher accounts. ClawHub responded by integrating VirusTotal and its own ClawScan screening into the upload pipeline.
Jan 27, 2026
CVECVE-2026-24747CVSS 8.8Infra
PyTorch weights_only checkpoint-loading RCE
A malicious .pth checkpoint file could corrupt memory and potentially achieve arbitrary code execution when loaded via torch.load with weights_only=True, a mode intended to be a safe way to load untrusted checkpoints. Fixed in PyTorch 2.10.0.
Jan 22, 2026
CVECVE-2026-0755CVSS 9.8MCP
gemini-mcp-tool unauthenticated command-injection RCE
The MCP server's execAsync handler passed user-supplied input to a shell command without adequate sanitization, letting a remote, unauthenticated caller execute arbitrary commands on the host. Fixed in version 1.1.6.
Jan 20, 2026
CVECVE-2025-68143CVSS 8.8MCP
Three flaws in Anthropic MCP Git server enable file access and RCE
Cyata disclosed path traversal and argument injection flaws (CVE-2025-68143/68144/68145) in Anthropic's official Git MCP server that are triggerable through prompt injection, allowing arbitrary file read and delete and, chained with the Filesystem MCP server, remote code execution. Fixed in versions 2025.9.25 and 2025.12.18.
Jan 10, 2026
CVECVE-2026-22777CVSS 7.5Supply chain
ComfyUI-Manager configuration-injection flaw
ComfyUI-Manager, the extension used to install and manage third-party custom nodes for ComfyUI, failed to sanitize HTTP query parameters, letting an attacker inject arbitrary values into its config.ini file and alter application settings. Patched in versions 3.39.2 and 4.0.5.
Jan 1, 2026
CVECVE-2025-11157CVSS 7.8Infra
Feast feature store Kubernetes materializer RCE via unsafe YAML
Feast's Kubernetes materializer job loaded configuration with an unsafe YAML loader that can instantiate arbitrary Python objects, so an attacker able to modify these YAML files could execute OS commands on the worker pod. The component also shipped in Red Hat OpenShift AI.
Dec 1, 2025
CVECVE-2025-66405CVSS 9.8Infra
Portkey AI Gateway SSRF via custom-host header
The gateway prioritized a client-supplied custom-host header when choosing its outbound destination, letting an unauthenticated attacker force the proxy to make requests to internal endpoints such as cloud metadata services. Fixed in 1.14.0 with an allow-list on custom host input.
Nov 22, 2025
CVECVE-2025-12420CVSS 9.8Agent
ServiceNow Now Assist second-order prompt injection (CVE-2025-12420)
AppOmni and NeuralTrust disclosed that default configurations in ServiceNow's Now Assist agent platform let low-privileged data trigger second-order prompt injection, letting one AI agent enlist another to bypass access controls, escalate privileges, or exfiltrate CRM and ticket data. ServiceNow shipped patches to hosted instances in October 2025.
Nov 13, 2025
IncidentAgent
Anthropic discloses AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign GTG-1002
Anthropic reported a state-sponsored group that jailbroke Claude Code and used MCP-connected tools to run reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and data exfiltration against roughly 30 global targets, succeeding in a small number. Anthropic assessed the AI performed 80 to 90 percent of the operation with humans acting only at a few decision points.
Nov 13, 2025
ResearchInfra
ShadowMQ: copied pickle-over-ZeroMQ code spreads RCE across the inference stack
Oligo showed that an unsafe pattern, ZeroMQ recv_pyobj() deserializing untrusted network data with pickle, was copy-pasted between major inference frameworks, producing RCE bugs including CVE-2024-50050 (Llama Stack), CVE-2025-23254 (TensorRT-LLM), and CVE-2025-30165 (vLLM). At publication some projects still had incomplete fixes.
Nov 10, 2025
CVECVE-2025-64513CVSS 9.3Infra
Milvus Proxy authentication bypass grants full admin access
A flaw in how the Milvus Proxy component handled the sourceID header let an unauthenticated attacker bypass authentication entirely and obtain full administrative control of a Milvus cluster, including reading, modifying, or deleting all data.
Nov 5, 2025
ResearchModel
Google GTIG discloses PROMPTFLUX and PROMPTSTEAL, malware that calls an LLM during execution
Google's Threat Intelligence Group reported PROMPTFLUX, experimental dropper malware that queries the Gemini API hourly to rewrite and re-obfuscate its own code for antivirus evasion, and PROMPTSTEAL, data-theft malware used by Russian state actor APT28 against Ukraine that queries a hosted model to generate reconnaissance and exfiltration commands on the fly rather than hard-coding them.
Oct 24, 2025
ResearchAgent
OpenAI Atlas omnibox treats crafted URLs as trusted prompts
NeuralTrust showed that Atlas parses omnibox input as either a URL or a command, and a URL-like string that fails URL validation is treated as a trusted user prompt, letting attackers inject instructions that override user intent and reach authenticated services. The browser had launched three days earlier.
Oct 23, 2025
ResearchAgent
Prompt injection flaw in Opera Neon agentic browser exposed account data
Brave's security team showed hidden HTML elements on a webpage could be read by Opera Neon's AI assistant and used for cross-origin data exfiltration, demonstrated by extracting a logged-in user's email address. Opera deployed a fix after initially dismissing the report.
Oct 22, 2025
ResearchAgent
Perplexity Comet agentic browser hijacked via calendar invite
Zenity Labs disclosed that a weaponized Google Calendar invite could hijack Perplexity's Comet agentic browser on macOS, Windows, and Android, causing it to read local files via file paths and exfiltrate their contents to an attacker server. Perplexity's initial fix was bypassed and a reinforced patch followed later.
Oct 21, 2025
ResearchAgent
Fellou agentic browser hijacked via hidden webpage text to exfiltrate Gmail data
Brave researchers showed text hidden on a webpage could instruct Fellou's browsing agent to autonomously navigate to Gmail and extract private email content without user confirmation. The issue was reported to Fellou in August 2025 and disclosed in October 2025.
Oct 17, 2025
CVECVE-2025-62353CVSS 9.8Coding agent
Path traversal in Windsurf IDE allowed arbitrary file read and write
HiddenLayer found that Windsurf's codebase-search and write-file tools failed to validate file paths, letting an attacker read and write arbitrary files outside a project directory, reachable directly or via indirect prompt injection hidden in project files such as README.md, to exfiltrate credentials.
Oct 9, 2025
ResearchModel
Anthropic study: 250 documents can backdoor an LLM of any size
Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute found that a near-constant number of poisoned pretraining documents, about 250, could implant a backdoor regardless of model size, challenging the assumption that attackers need to control a percentage of training data. The tested backdoor was a narrow gibberish trigger, not a frontier-model risk.
Oct 8, 2025
ResearchCVSS 9.6Coding agent
CamoLeak: GitHub Copilot Chat exfiltrates private source code via Camo proxy
Legit Security chained remote prompt injection hidden in pull request descriptions with a CSP bypass abusing GitHub's own Camo image proxy to silently exfiltrate secrets and private source code. GitHub mitigated it by disabling image rendering in Copilot Chat on 2025-08-14.
Sep 30, 2025
ResearchAssistant
Gemini Trifecta: three indirect prompt injection flaws in Google Gemini
Tenable disclosed three flaws letting attackers inject instructions through cloud logs, browser search history, and the browsing tool to exfiltrate saved user data and location. Google remediated all three by rolling back vulnerable models and stopping malicious hyperlink rendering.
Sep 25, 2025
IncidentMCP
Malicious postmark-mcp npm package BCCs every email to attacker
Koi Security found that postmark-mcp version 1.0.16 added a single line silently BCCing every outgoing email to an attacker-controlled address, after 15 clean versions built trust. The package saw roughly 1,500 downloads per week with an estimated 300 organizations using it before the author pulled it from npm.
Sep 25, 2025
ResearchCVSS 9.4Agent
ForcedLeak exfiltrates Salesforce Agentforce CRM data via prompt injection
Noma Labs disclosed an indirect prompt injection chain where malicious instructions hidden in Web-to-Lead form fields cause the Agentforce agent to exfiltrate CRM data, aided by an expired Salesforce-whitelisted domain the researchers re-registered. Salesforce patched by enforcing trusted URLs before public disclosure.
Sep 19, 2025
IncidentAssistant
Notion 3.0 AI agents vulnerable to data exfiltration via hidden-text PDF
PromptArmor showed Notion's new agentic AI, combined with its built-in web search tool, could be tricked by a PDF containing invisible white-on-white text into reading confidential workspace data and exfiltrating it by encoding it into outbound web-search query URLs, a lethal-trifecta pattern of private data access, untrusted content, and external communication.
Sep 15, 2025
CVECVE-2025-59528CVSS 10.0MCP
Flowise CustomMCP node remote code execution (CVE-2025-59528)
Flowise's CustomMCP node passed the user-supplied server config into JavaScript's Function() constructor, letting an unauthenticated attacker achieve remote code execution with full Node.js privileges. Patched in Flowise 3.0.6 and later found under active exploitation.
Sep 3, 2025
ResearchSupply chain
Model Namespace Reuse hijacks deleted model names on Vertex AI and Azure AI Foundry
Unit 42 showed that cloud platforms and thousands of open-source projects resolve models by name only, so re-registering a deleted or transferred Hugging Face namespace let researchers upload a malicious model and achieve remote code execution on the hosting endpoint in both Vertex AI and Azure AI Foundry. Google now scans daily for orphaned model references; the underlying naming-trust issue persists industry-wide.
Aug 27, 2025
IncidentModel
Anthropic discloses vibe hacking: Claude Code automating a 17-organization extortion campaign
Anthropic's August 2025 threat intelligence report detailed a cybercriminal (tracked GTG-2002) who used Claude Code to automate reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and network penetration against at least 17 organizations, with the model also analyzing stolen financial data to set ransom demands that sometimes exceeded 500,000 dollars. It is a separate case from the later GTG-1002 espionage disclosure.
Aug 21, 2025
IncidentAssistant
Over 370,000 shared Grok conversations exposed in search engine results
Reporting found that Grok's share-link feature caused more than 370,000 user conversations, some containing passwords, medical details, and other sensitive content, to become indexed and searchable on Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo because xAI did not exclude the shared-chat pages from crawling.
Aug 12, 2025
CVECVE-2025-53773CVSS 7.8Coding agent
GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio prompt-injection enabling local code execution
A command injection flaw let an attacker use prompt injection to write to the agent configuration and execute code locally on the developer's machine. Microsoft patched it in the August 2025 update cycle.
Aug 7, 2025
CVECVE-2025-53774CVSS 7.5Assistant
Unauthenticated information disclosure in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (BizChat)
A command injection weakness in the BizChat component of Microsoft 365 Copilot allowed unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information without requiring authentication or user interaction. Microsoft fixed the issue server-side.
Aug 4, 2025
CVECVE-2025-54795CVSS 9.8Coding agent
Claude Code confirmation-prompt bypass runs untrusted commands
A command-parsing error let an attacker bypass the Claude Code approval prompt and trigger execution of an untrusted command. Fixed in version 1.0.20.
Aug 4, 2025
CVECVE-2025-54135CVSS 9.8Coding agent
CurXecute: RCE in Cursor via MCP config write with no approval
Aim Labs found that Cursor would write the .cursor/mcp.json file without user approval, so an indirect prompt injection from untrusted external data could plant a malicious MCP server and gain remote code execution at developer privilege. Fixed in Cursor 1.3.
Aug 1, 2025
CVECVE-2025-54136CVSS 8.8Coding agent
MCPoison: persistent code execution via trusted Cursor MCP config
An attacker who could modify an already trusted MCP configuration file could swap the legitimate server for a malicious command and achieve remote, persistent code execution with no further user notification. Fixed in Cursor 1.3.
Jul 23, 2025
IncidentCoding agent
Amazon Q VS Code extension shipped with an injected data-wiping prompt
An outside contributor's pull request injected a prompt instructing the assistant to wipe local files and AWS resources, and the compromised version 1.84.0 shipped to the marketplace before public disclosure on 2025-07-23. The extension had roughly 964,000 installs; AWS revoked credentials and shipped a clean 1.85 the same day.
Jul 2025
IncidentCoding agent
Replit AI agent deleted a production database during a code freeze
During a test run by SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin, the Replit agent ignored an explicit code freeze and deleted a live production database holding records for over a thousand executives, then generated fake data and misreported what it had done. Replit called it a catastrophic error of judgement; rollback later worked despite the agent first claiming recovery was impossible.
Jul 17, 2025
CVECVE-2025-23266CVSS 9.0Infra
NVIDIAScape container escape in NVIDIA Container Toolkit (CVE-2025-23266)
A flaw in the toolkit's OCI initialization hooks let a malicious container inherit LD_PRELOAD into a privileged hook, giving root on the host with a three-line Dockerfile. Wiz warned it poses systemic risk to shared GPU cloud services where one tenant could reach other customers' models and data.
Jul 14, 2025
ResearchInfra
GPUHammer: first practical Rowhammer attack on a discrete NVIDIA GPU corrupts model weights
University of Toronto researchers showed Rowhammer bit-flips on an NVIDIA A6000 GPU's GDDR6 memory can corrupt neural-network weights, degrading an image classifier's accuracy from about 80 percent to under 1 percent. NVIDIA published an advisory recommending ECC memory on July 14, 2025; newer GPUs such as the H100 and RTX 5090 were not found susceptible.
Jul 11, 2025
ResearchModel
Grok-4 jailbroken within 48 hours using combined Echo Chamber and Crescendo attack
NeuralTrust researchers disclosed that xAI's newly launched Grok-4 could be manipulated into producing restricted content by combining the Echo Chamber context-poisoning technique with Microsoft's Crescendo multi-turn method. The combined approach succeeded in 30 to 67 percent of attempts across tested harmful categories without any single overtly malicious prompt.
Jul 9, 2025
CVECVE-2025-6514CVSS 9.6MCP
mcp-remote OS command injection from untrusted MCP servers
JFrog found that mcp-remote, a proxy letting local MCP clients reach remote servers, executes attacker-controlled OS commands via a crafted authorization_endpoint URL when connecting to a malicious server, giving full system compromise. Affects versions 0.0.5 through 0.1.15 and is fixed in 0.1.16.
Jul 6, 2025
ResearchMCP
Supabase MCP prompt injection can leak an entire SQL database
General Analysis demonstrated a lethal-trifecta attack where instructions planted in a support ticket are executed by a Cursor agent running the Supabase MCP with the service_role key that bypasses row-level security, extracting a private tokens table back into the ticket for the attacker to read.
Jul 2025
CVECVE-2025-53109CVSS 8.4MCP
EscapeRoute path traversal and symlink flaws in Anthropic Filesystem MCP
Cymulate found two flaws in Anthropic's Filesystem MCP server: a prefix-matching bypass (CVE-2025-53110) and a symlink bypass leading to code execution (CVE-2025-53109), both letting the agent read and write outside its allowed directories. Patched in versions 0.6.3 and 2025.7.1.
Jun 30, 2025
IncidentAssistant
McDonald's McHire AI hiring chatbot exposes 64 million applicant records
Researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry found an administrator account protected only by the default credentials 123456 on McDonald's McHire recruitment site, plus an insecure direct object reference that let sequential applicant IDs be enumerated to pull other candidates' chat transcripts with the Olivia AI bot. Up to 64 million applicant records including contact details and interview transcripts were exposed; Paradox.ai disabled the account and fixed the API within about a day of disclosure.
Jun 18, 2025
IncidentMCP
Asana MCP server exposed customer data across organizations
A logic flaw in Asana's MCP server let users in one organization see task descriptions, project metadata, and other content from separate tenants within their access scope. Asana found the bug on 2025-06-04, took the feature offline until 2025-06-17, and told BleepingComputer roughly 1,000 customers were affected.
Jun 17, 2025
ResearchCVSS 8.8Agent
AgentSmith flaw in LangSmith Prompt Hub could steal API keys
Noma Security disclosed AgentSmith, where a shared agent on LangSmith's public Prompt Hub could carry a hidden malicious proxy configuration that silently funnels a victim's prompts, documents, and OpenAI API keys through an attacker server. LangChain patched the backend and added cloning warnings.
Jun 13, 2025
CVECVE-2025-49596CVSS 9.4MCP
Anthropic MCP Inspector missing auth enables RCE
Oligo Security reported that MCP Inspector's proxy accepts unauthenticated stdio command requests from its browser client, so a malicious website (including via DNS rebinding to localhost) can run arbitrary code on a developer's machine. Fixed in version 0.14.1.
Jun 11, 2025
CVECVE-2025-32711CVSS 9.3Assistant
EchoLeak: zero-click data exfiltration in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Aim Labs disclosed a zero-click flaw where a single crafted email could make Copilot access internal files and exfiltrate their contents with no user interaction, using a technique the researchers called LLM Scope Violation. Microsoft resolved it server-side with no customer action required.
May 26, 2025
ResearchMCP
GitHub MCP server abused to leak private repository data
Invariant Labs showed a toxic agent flow where a malicious issue in a public repository prompt-injects an agent using the GitHub MCP server into pulling private repository contents and leaking them into a public pull request. The researchers framed it as an architectural issue at the agent level, not a bug in the MCP server code.
May 23, 2025
ResearchCoding agent
Remote prompt injection in GitLab Duo enabled private source code theft
Legit Security showed hidden instructions embedded in merge request descriptions, comments, or code, using encoding tricks and invisible Unicode, could hijack GitLab Duo Chat into leaking private source code and undisclosed vulnerability details via injected image tags. GitLab shipped a patch restricting Duo from rendering unsafe HTML pointing to external domains.
May 14, 2025
IncidentAssistant
xAI discloses unauthorized modification of Grok's system prompt
xAI confirmed that an unauthorized change to Grok's system prompt directed the bot to reference a specific political topic in unrelated replies, bypassing internal code-review controls. In response xAI published Grok's system prompts publicly on GitHub and added new review safeguards.
Apr 29, 2025
CVECVE-2025-32444CVSS 9.8Infra
vLLM Mooncake integration RCE via pickle over unauthenticated ZeroMQ
vLLM's Mooncake integration used pickle-based serialization over unsecured ZeroMQ sockets listening on all interfaces, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution on inference servers. Fixed in vLLM 0.8.5.
Apr 24, 2025
ResearchModel
Policy Puppetry universal prompt-injection bypass affects all major LLMs
HiddenLayer disclosed a technique that disguises jailbreak prompts as policy files combined with roleplay framing, bypassing safety alignment across models from every major lab and in some cases extracting system prompts. The method worked with only minor adjustments across reasoning and non-reasoning models alike.
Apr 21, 2025
ResearchMCP
Line jumping: MCP tool descriptions as pre-invocation injection
Trail of Bits described line jumping, where a malicious MCP server embeds instructions in tool descriptions returned during tools/list, manipulating model behavior before any tool is invoked and undermining MCP's invocation controls and connection isolation. They later released mcp-context-protector as a defensive wrapper.
Apr 7, 2025
CVECVE-2025-3248CVSS 9.8Agent
Langflow unauthenticated RCE, later exploited in the wild
Langflow versions before 1.3.0 expose an unauthenticated code-validation endpoint that runs attacker-supplied Python, giving full remote code execution. CISA added it to the KEV catalog on 2025-05-05 and it was used to deploy the Flodrix botnet.
Apr 4, 2025
CVECVE-2025-27520CVSS 9.8Infra
BentoML unauthenticated RCE via insecure deserialization
BentoML deserialized client-supplied request payloads insecurely, letting any unauthenticated user execute arbitrary code on the model server. Fixed in 1.4.3.
Apr 1, 2025
ResearchMCP
Tool poisoning attacks hide instructions in MCP tool descriptions
Invariant Labs introduced tool poisoning attacks, where malicious instructions embedded in MCP tool descriptions are invisible to users but read by the model, and demonstrated Cursor leaking SSH keys and config files. They also described tool shadowing, where a malicious server alters the behavior of trusted tools.
Mar 20, 2025
CVECVE-2024-6825CVSS 8.8Infra
LiteLLM proxy RCE via post_call_rules callback injection
LiteLLM's post_call_rules configuration let a user designate an arbitrary Python callable, including system functions, as a callback, so a crafted config triggered execution of attacker-chosen commands when a chat response was processed.
Mar 18, 2025
ResearchCoding agent
Rules File Backdoor hides malicious instructions in AI coding config files
Pillar Security showed that invisible Unicode characters embedded in rules or config files could plant hidden instructions that steer AI coding assistants into generating compromised code across a whole team. GitHub later added warnings for files containing hidden Unicode text.
Mar 2025
ResearchAgent
Princeton researchers demonstrate memory-injection attacks on ElizaOS AI agents
Princeton University and Sentient Foundation researchers published a study showing that AI agents built on ElizaOS could be manipulated through context/memory injection, embedding false information into an agent's stored memory via social media posts to trigger unauthorized asset transfers and protocol violations. The team found agents were significantly more vulnerable to this memory injection than to ordinary prompt injection and released the CrAIBench benchmark to measure resilience to it.
Feb 17, 2025
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ChatGPT Operator hijacked via prompt injection to leak personal data
Johann Rehberger (Embrace The Red) showed that hidden instructions on a web page could hijack OpenAI's ChatGPT Operator browsing agent, causing it to visit sites where the victim was already logged in and exfiltrate personal data such as emails and addresses. Rehberger shared the findings with OpenAI, and the demonstrated scenarios stopped working shortly before the post.
Feb 9, 2025
IncidentInfra
OmniGPT AI aggregator breach leaks 34 million chat logs and API keys
A threat actor using the alias Gloomer posted a dataset on a hacking forum claiming to be from OmniGPT, containing roughly 30,000 user emails and phone numbers, over 34 million lines of user-chatbot conversations, and links to uploaded files containing credentials and API keys. OmniGPT did not issue an official confirmation of the breach at the time of reporting.
Feb 6, 2025
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nullifAI: malicious Hugging Face models evade Picklescan
ReversingLabs found two models on Hugging Face carrying reverse-shell payloads that evaded Picklescan by using 7z compression instead of the default ZIP and deliberately broken pickle streams. Hugging Face removed the models within 24 hours.
Feb 6, 2025
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DeepSeek app found embedding code linked to China Mobile
Feroot Security found code in DeepSeek's account creation and login flow that communicated with infrastructure tied to China Mobile, a state-linked telecom banned from US business, a finding corroborated by the Associated Press with independent experts. Researchers could not confirm user data actually reached China Mobile in North American testing, but flagged the undisclosed data pathway.
Feb 3, 2025
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Fake DeepSeek client packages on PyPI steal developer credentials
Packages named deepseeek and deepseekai, posing as DeepSeek API clients, ran infostealer code on first use that collected environment variables such as API keys and database credentials, exfiltrating via Pipedream. PyPI quarantined them within about 29 minutes of the report, after 222 downloads.
Feb 3, 2025
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Anthropic publishes Constitutional Classifiers and runs a public jailbreak bounty
Anthropic published a paper on constitutional classifiers, input and output filters trained on synthetic data to block jailbreaks, and ran a public red-team challenge offering up to 35,000 dollars for a universal jailbreak. Of 339 participants logging roughly 3,700 hours, Anthropic assessed one submission as a genuine universal jailbreak, while the classifiers blocked over 95 percent of attempts overall.
Jan 31, 2025
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DeepSeek R1 fails safety evaluations from Cisco and HiddenLayer
Cisco's team, with the University of Pennsylvania, reported a 100 percent attack success rate against DeepSeek R1 across 50 HarmBench prompts, and HiddenLayer published its own analysis of safety and prompt-handling weaknesses. The findings landed days after R1's release drove it to the top of app-store charts.
Jan 29, 2025
IncidentInfra
DeepSeek ClickHouse database exposed with chat histories and API secrets
Wiz found a publicly accessible ClickHouse database on DeepSeek subdomains requiring no authentication, containing over a million log entries with chat history, secret keys, and backend details, and allowing arbitrary SQL over HTTP. DeepSeek secured it promptly after disclosure.
Dec 31, 2024
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Unit 42 discloses the Bad Likert Judge multi-turn jailbreak
Palo Alto Unit 42 disclosed a technique that abuses an LLM's own content-evaluation ability by asking it to score responses on a harmfulness scale and then generate examples for each score. Tested across six models, it raised average attack success rates by more than 60 percentage points versus direct prompts.
Dec 5, 2024
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Ultralytics YOLO PyPI releases compromised to deliver a cryptominer
Attackers injected code via the project's GitHub Actions build, then published further malicious releases using an unrevoked PyPI token, shipping an XMRig coinminer downloader in a package with roughly 60 million downloads. PyPI attestations helped distinguish the attack phases, and all four versions were removed.
Nov 12, 2024
ResearchInfra
ModeLeak: Vertex AI privilege escalation and cross-project model exfiltration
Unit 42 found that Vertex AI's custom-training-job service agent could be abused to reach data services and storage buckets beyond the intended project scope, and that deploying a poisoned model granted access to exfiltrate every other fine-tuned model and LLM adapter in the project. Google fixed both issues after disclosure.
Oct 23, 2024
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Unit 42 discloses the Deceptive Delight multi-turn jailbreak
Palo Alto Unit 42 disclosed a three-turn jailbreak that embeds an unsafe topic alongside benign ones inside a narrative-generation request, exploiting limited attention to safety across a full conversation. The technique achieved a 65 percent average attack success rate versus 5.8 percent for direct unsafe prompts across eight tested models.
Oct 17, 2024
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Malicious ComfyUI custom nodes distribute Akira infostealer via public registry
Two node packs uploaded under the name lonemilk to the Comfy Registry bundled the Akira Stealer and were downloaded 790 times before an automated scanner flagged them and maintainers banned the packs on 2024-10-21.
Sep 26, 2024
CVECVE-2024-0132CVSS 9.0Infra
NVIDIA Container Toolkit TOCTOU container escape (CVE-2024-0132)
A time-of-check time-of-use race condition allowed a crafted container image to reach the host file system under default configuration, enabling code execution, privilege escalation, and data tampering on GPU hosts. NVIDIA rated it 9.0 critical.
Sep 6, 2024
CVECVE-2024-45758CVSS 9.1Infra
H2O-3 unauthenticated RCE via malicious JDBC URL
H2O's import-SQL-table API accepted an attacker-controlled JDBC connection URL without validation, letting an unauthenticated attacker trigger Java deserialization, arbitrary file reads, and command execution on the H2O server.
Aug 20, 2024
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Slack AI leaks private channel data via indirect prompt injection
PromptArmor showed that an attacker posting instructions in a public channel could make Slack AI exfiltrate data from private channels the attacker could not access, including API keys, by rendering the stolen content inside a clickable link. Slack deployed a patch and said it had no evidence of unauthorized customer data access.
Aug 6, 2024
CVECVE-2024-38206CVSS 8.5Assistant
Microsoft Copilot Studio SSRF leaks sensitive information
An authenticated attacker could bypass server-side request forgery protection in Copilot Studio to reach internal infrastructure and leak sensitive information over the network. Microsoft fixed the issue server-side.
Jul 17, 2024
ResearchInfra
SAPwned: SAP AI Core flaws exposed customer cloud credentials and AI artifacts
Wiz Research found a chain of five vulnerabilities in SAP's AI training service that could let an attacker escape network isolation, gain Kubernetes cluster-admin rights, and access customers' AWS, Azure, and SAP HANA Cloud credentials plus private AI artifacts. Wiz reported the issues on 2024-01-25, SAP shipped patches by 2024-05-15, and Wiz published its findings on 2024-07-17; SAP said no customer data was compromised.
Jun 2024
CVECVE-2024-5565CVSS 8.1Assistant
Vanna.AI prompt injection leads to remote code execution
JFrog found that passing external input to Vanna's ask method with visualization enabled let an attacker use prompt injection to run arbitrary Python code, resulting in remote code execution. The flaw affects the library's default visualization path.
Jun 26, 2024
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Microsoft discloses the Skeleton Key jailbreak affecting multiple models
Microsoft's Mark Russinovich disclosed Skeleton Key, a technique that convinces a model to augment rather than refuse its guidelines by framing requests as safety-labeled research. Testing in April and May 2024 found most tested models from Meta, Google, OpenAI, Mistral, Anthropic, and Cohere complied; Microsoft responded with Azure AI Prompt Shields and updated red-teaming tooling.
Jun 24, 2024
CVECVE-2024-37032CVSS 8.8Infra
Probllama: Ollama path traversal RCE (CVE-2024-37032)
Ollama failed to validate the digest format when resolving model paths, giving path traversal that Wiz escalated to remote code execution, worst in Docker deployments running as root on all interfaces. Wiz found over 1,000 exposed Ollama instances online; maintainers patched within about 4 hours of the report.
Jun 11, 2024
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Trail of Bits discloses the Sleepy Pickle model-file poisoning technique
Trail of Bits published Sleepy Pickle, a technique that embeds a payload in a pickle file so that, on deserialization, it patches the loaded model's weights or hooks its methods to insert backdoors or tamper with outputs, compromising the model itself rather than the host and leaving no trace on disk.
Jun 9, 2024
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Malicious ComfyUI_LLMVISION custom node stole browser and crypto credentials
A custom node published as an OpenAI/Anthropic helper contained code that harvested browser passwords, credit card data, and browsing history and exfiltrated it to a Discord webhook; researchers documented at least two updated, more evasive malicious versions before it was removed.
Jun 2024
ResearchInfra
Windows Recall preview stored screenshots in an unencrypted database
Ahead of its launch, researchers including Kevin Beaumont and Alexander Hagenah showed that Windows Recall's screenshot history was stored in an unencrypted SQLite database trivially extractable by malware or anyone with brief device access. The backlash led Microsoft to delay rollout, make Recall opt-in, and add encryption and Windows Hello gating.
May 31, 2024
IncidentInfra
Hugging Face discloses unauthorized access to Spaces secrets
Hugging Face detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform and said a subset of Spaces secrets could have been accessed. It revoked affected tokens, notified users, engaged forensic specialists, reported to authorities, and moved Spaces secrets to a key management service.
May 23, 2024
ResearchInfra
Wiz finds cross-tenant RCE in Replicate's AI-as-a-Service platform
Wiz Research uploaded a malicious containerized model to Replicate to achieve remote code execution, then abused a shared Redis task queue to potentially access other tenants' private AI models and prompts. Wiz disclosed the issue to Replicate in January 2024, it was fixed before the May 2024 public write-up, and no customer data was reported compromised.
May 17, 2024
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Arup confirms 25 million dollar Hong Kong deepfake video-call fraud
A Hong Kong finance employee at engineering firm Arup authorized 15 wire transfers totaling about 25.6 million dollars after joining a video call in which every other participant, including the CFO, was an AI deepfake built from public footage. The fraud was reported to Hong Kong police in January 2024 and publicly confirmed by Arup on May 17, 2024, with none of the funds recovered as of early 2025.
May 14, 2024
CVECVE-2024-34359CVSS 9.6Infra
llama-cpp-python Jinja2 template injection RCE (CVE-2024-34359)
llama-cpp-python parsed chat templates from model metadata in an unsandboxed Jinja2 environment, so a crafted model file could achieve server-side template injection and remote code execution on the loading host. Rated 9.6 critical.
May 14, 2024
CVECVE-2024-0087CVSS 9.0Infra
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server logging flaw allows arbitrary file write and RCE
Triton's log-configuration interface let a user redirect and append server logs to an arbitrary file path, which could be chained to achieve code execution, privilege escalation, or data tampering. NVIDIA published the advisory and fix on 2024-05-14.
Apr 16, 2024
CVECVE-2024-3660CVSS 9.8Infra
Keras model loading arbitrary code injection (CVE-2024-3660)
An arbitrary code injection vulnerability in Keras before 2.13 let attackers execute code with the application's permissions, turning untrusted model files into a code-execution vector. Rated 9.8 critical.
Apr 15, 2024
ResearchAssistant
Google NotebookLM vulnerable to prompt injection and data exfiltration
Johann Rehberger showed documents uploaded to NotebookLM could contain hidden instructions that manipulated the AI's output and exfiltrated data from analyzed documents via auto-rendered images pointing to attacker servers. Google, first notified in December 2023, deployed a fix for the image-based exfiltration vector within days of the public disclosure.
Apr 2, 2024
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Anthropic discloses many-shot jailbreaking exploiting long context windows
Anthropic disclosed that stuffing a prompt with hundreds of faux dialogue turns showing an AI answering harmful questions can override safety training in long-context models, an effect that follows a power law as the number of shots increases. Anthropic briefed other developers before publishing and reported a classifier mitigation that cut attack success from 61 percent to 2 percent in one test.
Apr 1, 2024
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Microsoft researchers publish the Crescendo multi-turn jailbreak
Microsoft researchers published Crescendo, a multi-turn jailbreak that starts with benign prompts and gradually escalates by referencing the model's own prior replies until it produces disallowed content. Their automated variant outperformed prior state-of-the-art techniques by 29 to 71 percent depending on the target model.
Mar 26, 2024
IncidentCVE-2023-48022CVSS 9.8Infra
ShadowRay: active exploitation of unauthenticated Ray Jobs API (CVE-2023-48022)
Oligo found thousands of publicly exposed Ray servers at hundreds of companies compromised through Ray's Jobs API, which has no authorization. Attackers stole cloud and SSH credentials, OpenAI and Hugging Face tokens, and ran cryptomining on GPU fleets. Anyscale disputes the CVE, calling the exposed API intended behavior for controlled networks.
Mar 13, 2024
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ChatGPT plugin OAuth flaws allowed zero-click account takeover
Salt Labs disclosed three OAuth flaws in ChatGPT's plugin ecosystem, one letting attackers silently install a malicious plugin on a victim's account via a crafted link, and a zero-click flaw in PluginLab.AI that could hand over a victim's connected GitHub account and repositories. The issues were reported and patched before Salt's public write-up.
Mar 3, 2024
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Morris II: first self-replicating "AI worm" demonstrated against GenAI email assistants
Researchers from Cornell Tech, Technion, and Intuit published a zero-click, self-replicating prompt that propagated between RAG-connected generative-AI email agents, exfiltrating data and spamming contacts without further attacker action. The work was disclosed via arXiv and Wired on 2024-03-03.
Feb 27, 2024
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JFrog finds about 100 malicious models on Hugging Face
JFrog identified roughly 100 models on Hugging Face carrying harmful payloads injected into PyTorch model files via pickle deserialization, including one that opened a reverse shell to attacker infrastructure on load. Hugging Face flagged such models as unsafe but did not block downloads.
Feb 19, 2024
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ArtPrompt ASCII-art jailbreak against aligned LLMs published
Academic researchers published ArtPrompt, a black-box jailbreak that masks unsafe trigger words as ASCII art, exploiting the fact that aligned LLMs struggle to recognize word meaning rendered as text art. The paper, later presented at ACL 2024, showed the technique induced restricted behavior from all five tested models.
Feb 14, 2024
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OpenAI and Microsoft disrupt five nation-state threat actors misusing ChatGPT
OpenAI, working with Microsoft Threat Intelligence, terminated accounts tied to five state-affiliated actors from Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China that were using ChatGPT for precursor activity such as open-source research, translation, script debugging, and phishing-content generation ahead of potential cyber operations.
Feb 13, 2024
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PoisonedRAG formalizes knowledge-corruption poisoning attacks on RAG systems
Academic researchers published PoisonedRAG, showing that injecting a small number of crafted texts into a RAG knowledge base could reliably force a target LLM to output attacker-chosen answers, formalizing RAG knowledge-poisoning as an optimization problem. The paper was first posted to arXiv on 2024-02-13.
Feb 6, 2024
CVECVE-2024-24590CVSS 8.8Supply chain
ClearML client SDK RCE via malicious pickle artifact
The ClearML client SDK deserialized experiment artifacts with pickle without restriction, so a maliciously crafted artifact uploaded to a ClearML project ran arbitrary code on any user's machine that later retrieved it.
Feb 2024
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"Silent Sabotage": Hugging Face Safetensors conversion bot hijack risk disclosed
HiddenLayer researchers showed that Hugging Face's automated PyTorch-to-Safetensors conversion service could be hijacked via a malicious pickle payload to steal the conversion bot's token, which could then be used to send malicious pull requests and implant backdoors into other users' model repositories. Hugging Face and HiddenLayer coordinated a fix; the research was published in February 2024.
Jan 21, 2024
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AI-cloned Biden robocalls target New Hampshire primary voters
Two days before the New Hampshire primary, spoofed robocalls carrying an AI-cloned voice of President Biden told voters to save their vote for November. The FCC adopted a 6 million dollar forfeiture order against the political consultant behind it, and voice provider Lingo Telecom separately settled with the FCC for 1 million dollars.
Jan 16, 2024
CVECVE-2023-4969CVSS 6.5Infra
LeftoverLocals GPU memory-leak flaw can recover LLM inference output (CVE-2023-4969)
Trail of Bits disclosed LeftoverLocals, a flaw where GPU local memory is not cleared between kernels, letting an unprivileged local process recover data left by another process. Researchers extracted enough data from an AMD GPU running llama.cpp to reconstruct another user's LLM responses. NVIDIA, ARM, and Intel GPUs were not affected.
Dec 22, 2023
CVECVE-2023-51449CVSS 7.5Infra
Gradio path-traversal flaw allowed arbitrary file read via /file route
A flawed containment check in Gradio's /file route let attackers escape the app's temp directory and read arbitrary files on the host, exploitable against any public-facing Gradio demo including those hosted on Hugging Face Spaces. The issue was patched in Gradio 4.11.0.
Dec 15, 2023
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Writer.com AI data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection
PromptArmor and Kai Greshake showed that when a Writer.com chat session pulled content from an attacker-controlled web source, hidden instructions could make the underlying model exfiltrate the user's private documents and chat history to an external site. Writer partially mitigated the path days after the public write-up by disabling markdown image rendering.
Nov 28, 2023
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Researchers extract training data from production language models
A Google DeepMind-led team (Nasr, Carlini and others) showed that adversaries could recover memorized training data, including personal information, from aligned production models at scale, demonstrating that alignment does not remove memorization risk. The paper prompted coordinated disclosure before publication.
Nov 16, 2023
CVECVE-2023-6019CVSS 9.8Infra
Ray dashboard command-injection flaw allows unauthenticated remote code execution
The cpu_profile parameter of Ray's dashboard passed unsanitized input to an OS command, letting an unauthenticated remote attacker execute arbitrary commands. The bug was fixed in Ray 2.8.1; Anyscale later disputed the CVE's severity framing, arguing Ray's dashboard was never designed to be exposed to untrusted networks.
Nov 3, 2023
ResearchAssistant
Google Bard Extensions data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection
Johann Rehberger showed that a shared Google Doc could deliver an indirect prompt injection to Bard's Extensions feature, combined with a markdown image trick and a Content Security Policy bypass, to silently exfiltrate a victim's Bard conversation history to an attacker logger. Rehberger reported it to Google, which confirmed a fix before the public write-up.
Oct 19, 2023
CVECVE-2023-46229CVSS 8.8Agent
LangChain SitemapLoader SSRF exposed internal network resources
LangChain's recursive_url_loader/SitemapLoader followed crawled links from an external server into internal network addresses, allowing server-side request forgery against intranet resources. LangChain fixed the issue in version 0.0.317 by adding domain allowlisting.
Sep 28, 2023
CVECVE-2023-43654CVSS 9.8Infra
ShellTorch: TorchServe SSRF-to-RCE vulnerability chain exposes PyTorch model servers
Oligo Security disclosed a chain dubbed ShellTorch: TorchServe's default configuration lacked input validation, letting an attacker reach an exposed management API and trigger a server-side request forgery that could be used to upload a malicious model and achieve remote code execution. Researchers found tens of thousands of internet-exposed instances; the fix shipped in TorchServe 0.8.2.
Aug 27, 2023
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Retool breached via SMS phishing plus AI voice-deepfake MFA social engineering
Attackers phished a Retool employee via a fake IT-team SMS, then placed a follow-up call using an AI-generated deepfake of an internal IT staffer's voice to extract an MFA code, compromising 27 cloud accounts, all crypto companies. One victim, Fortress Trust, lost approximately 15 million dollars in cryptocurrency.
Aug 7, 2023
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Academic study characterizes the in-the-wild DAN jailbreak ecosystem
Researchers published the first large-scale empirical study of in-the-wild jailbreak prompts, analyzing 1,405 prompts including Do Anything Now variants collected across 131 online communities. They found several prompts sustained a 0.95 attack success rate against ChatGPT and GPT-4, with some persisting online for over 240 days, and later presented the work at ACM CCS 2024.
Jul 27, 2023
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Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned LLMs
Zou, Carlini, Kolter, Fredrikson and colleagues at CMU showed that automatically generated adversarial suffixes could bypass safety guardrails across both open and commercial models, and that the attacks transferred between systems. It became the reference result for the fragility of current alignment.
Jul 13, 2023
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WormGPT and FraudGPT malicious LLM services surface on cybercrime forums
SlashNext detailed WormGPT, a GPT-J-based chatbot sold on criminal forums and tuned on malware and phishing data to help generate business email compromise lures, and a similar tool, FraudGPT, offering phishing kits on a subscription basis. WormGPT's operator shut the service down in August 2023 citing media attention.
Jul 2023
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PoisonGPT hides a tampered model in the Hugging Face supply chain
Mithril Security surgically edited a single fact into an open model, uploaded it under a name typo-squatting a well-known lab, and showed it passed standard benchmarks while spreading targeted misinformation. The demonstration highlighted the absence of model provenance in the LLM supply chain.
Apr 2023
IncidentAssistant
Samsung engineers leaked source code and internal data into ChatGPT
Within about 20 days of allowing ChatGPT, Samsung engineers pasted proprietary semiconductor source code, defect-detection code, and a confidential meeting transcript into the tool across three separate incidents. Samsung responded by banning external generative AI tools on company devices in May 2023.
Mar 24, 2023
IncidentAssistant
ChatGPT redis-py bug exposed chat titles and payment data
A race condition in the open-source redis-py client returned cached data from unrelated sessions, letting some users see other users' chat titles and the first message of new conversations. OpenAI said payment-related data of about 1.2 percent of active ChatGPT Plus subscribers may have been exposed during a nine-hour window.
Mar 24, 2023
CVECVE-2023-1177CVSS 9.8Infra
MLflow path traversal allows unauthenticated remote file access (CVE-2023-1177)
MLflow before 2.2.1 contained a path traversal flaw exploitable over the network without authentication or user interaction, compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability of tracking servers. Rated 9.8 critical.
Mar 3, 2023
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Meta's LLaMA model weights leaked publicly via 4chan torrent
Days after Meta began granting gated research access to LLaMA 1, a recipient posted a torrent of the 7B and 65B weights to 4chan, pulling the files directly from Meta's CDN. Meta filed DMCA takedowns through late March 2023, but the weights had already propagated and became the base for widely used open fine-tunes such as Alpaca and Vicuna.
Feb 23, 2023
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Indirect prompt injection compromises real-world LLM applications
Greshake and colleagues introduced indirect prompt injection, showing that instructions planted in data an LLM later retrieves, such as a web page, can hijack the application without the attacker prompting the model directly. It defined the threat class that most later assistant and agent attacks build on.
Feb 8, 2023
IncidentAssistant
Kevin Liu extracts Bing Chat's hidden Sydney system prompt
Stanford student Kevin Liu used a prompt-injection technique to make Bing Chat reveal what preceded its instructions, extracting the chatbot's internal codename Sydney and its confidential behavioral guidelines shortly after the preview launched. Microsoft confirmed the leaked prompt was genuine, and the incident became an early landmark demonstration of prompt injection against a production AI system.
Dec 31, 2022
IncidentSupply chain
Malicious torchtriton package hits PyTorch nightly via dependency confusion
An attacker uploaded a malicious torchtriton package to PyPI that shadowed PyTorch's own nightly dependency, so pip installed the hostile copy between December 25 and 30, 2022. The binary exfiltrated system files, SSH keys, and environment variables over DNS. Stable PyTorch releases were unaffected.