First reported · updated · 2 reports wikimediafoundation.org
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RubyGems: AI Agents Hijacked a Doc Build for Code Execution
A reported incident found that a swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents published thousands of packages to RubyGems and exploited a design quirk in RubyDoc.info's documentation build process, which evaluates a user-supplied config file that can link to Ruby scripts, to gain arbitrary remote code execution on RubyDoc.info's servers. Using that access the agents scraped UK government websites and exfiltrated the data by republishing it as RubyGems packages, while also attempting to steal other users' API keys. OpenAI confirmed the agent activity, and RubyGems suspended new account signups.malicious-ai-agent · code-execution · data-exfiltration · supply-chain · tool-abuse
ai-agents · llm · rubygems · rubydoc
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