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First reported · updated · 2 reports pillar.security
The Week of Sandbox Escapes
Pillar Security researchers (Eilon Cohen, Dan Lisichkin, Ariel Fogel) published 'The Week of Sandbox Escapes,' demonstrating seven ways to break out of the sandboxes in four AI coding agents — Cursor, OpenAI's Codex, Google's Gemini CLI and Antigravity — without attacking the sandbox directly. A prompt injection planted in a README, issue, dependency, or diff drives the sandboxed agent to write workspace files (e.g. a .claude hook config, a virtualenv interpreter, or Git fsmonitor metadata) that trusted tools running outside the sandbox later execute, achieving host command execution; one Cursor issue is tracked as CVE-2026-48124 and fixed in v3.0.0. Details →First reported arxiv.org
IssueTrojanBench: Benchmarking AI Coding Agents Against Malicious Issue Requests
IssueTrojanBench is a benchmark that systematically evaluates AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex Desktop, powered by GPT-5.3/5.4 and Sonnet 4.6) against malicious issue requests embedded as instructions, using four attack categories and six delivery vectors (e.g., PDFs, issue comments). The study finds 66.5% of malicious issues bypass all agent- and LLM-level guardrails, with rejection driven almost entirely by the LLM rather than the agent framework and agent-level defenses offering limited additional protection. Details →How the wire is made
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