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First reported · updated · 3 reports embracethered.com
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
ai-agents · mcp · llm · agentic-ide
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0.85
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First reported · updated · 5 reports adversa.ai
Grok chat history leak: Cryptographic Context Injection
Adversa AI disclosed a technique it calls Cryptographic Context Injection that hides malicious instructions inside AES-256-GCM ciphertext, then induces an LLM to decrypt them in its own code-execution sandbox so the plaintext arrives as trusted runtime output that bypasses static guardrails. Demonstrated against live production Grok and Gemini, an ordinary 'summarize this page' request silently exfiltrates a Grok user's chat data with no click; the researchers reported it to xAI in June 2026 and say it was still reproducible against Grok as of August 19. Details →First reported nhimg.org
AI browser guardrail bypass exposes a new data theft path
LayerX Security describes a "BioShocking" attack that games an AI browser into violating its guardrails by establishing a false reality, enabling data theft, code copying, and system command execution. The attack exploits the browser-mediated trust boundary, using indirect or staged instructions embedded in webpage context that pass prompt filters yet still steer the model into malicious enterprise actions inside an authenticated session. Details →First reported · updated · 2 reports hiddenlayer.com
EchoGram and guardrail bypass: are AI defenses keeping up?
HiddenLayer research dubbed EchoGram demonstrates that carefully chosen token sequences can flip verdicts in LLM guardrail models, causing harmful prompts to be marked safe or benign prompts to trigger false alarms. The NHIMG editorial summarizes the finding and its implications for organizations relying on probabilistic AI safety layers to protect deployed LLMs and agents. Details →How the wire is made
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