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AWS Kiro: Arbitrary Code Execution via Indirect Prompt Injection

Researchers found a vulnerability (CVE-2026-10591) in AWS Kiro, an agentic IDE, where hidden instructions planted in a web page or source file that Kiro processes can trigger indirect prompt injection to rewrite Kiro's own MCP server configuration (~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json) or allowlist arbitrary Bash commands in .vscode/settings.json, achieving arbitrary code execution on the developer's machine with no approval prompt. The human-in-the-loop approval boundary is bypassed because Kiro can write to these config files without user consent, and AWS has issued a fix and CVE.

indirect-prompt-injection · prompt-injection · remote-code-execution · tool-abuse · config-poisoning
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Johann Rehberger (Embrace The Red) demonstrated an indirect prompt injection attack chain that hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode via a simple 'summarize this website' request, achieving code execution with a 60-80% success rate. The chain nudges Claude from WebFetch to curl, downloads a ZIP whose extracted malicious struct.py shadows Python's standard module, so importing base64 triggers attacker code; in some runs Auto Mode's safety classifier even blocked Claude's own cleanup command. The result contrasts with a vendor-commissioned evaluation (Trajectory Labs) that reported 0.00% attack success for Opus 5 in Auto Mode. Details →

We put the exploit in a picture. Your AI code reviewer never opens it.

Researchers from the University of Missouri-Kansas City's ASSET Research Group demonstrated 'Ghostcommit,' an attack that hides malicious prompt-injection instructions inside a PNG image so AI code reviewers (CodeRabbit, Cursor Bugbot) never see them. A benign-looking AGENTS.md convention file points to build-spec.png, whose rendered text instructs a coding agent to read the repo's .env byte-by-byte and emit the secrets as an integer tuple; the payload sits dormant until an unrelated agent session triggers exfiltration. A proof-of-concept is published on GitHub and the findings were disclosed to affected vendors. Details →
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