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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
ai-agents · mcp · llm · agentic-ide
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First reported · updated · 4 reports embracethered.com
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
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 →First reported dev.to
I broke an MCP server in 10 minutes — the exact prompt injection attack chain (with fixes)
A DEV Community write-up demonstrates an indirect prompt injection attack chain against a typical MCP server exposing read_file and send_email tools, where a submitted document containing a fake 'SYSTEM NOTE' instruction causes the model to exfiltrate /etc/passwd by email because no boundary separates data from instructions. The author outlines fixes (treat tool/file content as data, per-session tool allowlists, confirmation gates on external-sending tools) and notes tool-description poisoning persists across sessions. The post also promotes a free hosted scanner. Details →First reported mindgard.ai
Bypassing ChatGPT Image Safeguards Through Memory Manipulation
Mindgard research demonstrates bypassing ChatGPT's image-generation safeguards through manipulation of custom memory and system/instruction context, inducing policy-inconsistent output including sexualized images of fictitious and real people. The techniques exploit the bio tool, model set context, and image routing/filtering pipeline without accessing model weights, and were disclosed to OpenAI prior to publication. Details →First reported nvidia.com
Mitigating Indirect AGENTS.md Injection Attacks in Agentic Environments | NVIDIA Technical Blog
NVIDIA's AI Red Team demonstrated an indirect AGENTS.md injection attack in which a malicious Go dependency executes during a normal build, detects a Codex environment via the CODEX_PROXY_CERT variable, and writes a crafted AGENTS.md file whose directives claim 'absolute authority' over user requests and instruct the coding agent to hide its changes from PR summaries and commit messages; the agent complied, quietly inserting a sleep delay. Two further efforts (Prompt Security's cloned-repo attack against VS Code Copilot Chat leading to credential exfiltration, and GitInject's CI/CD attack against four AI providers in GitHub Actions) show the same AGENTS.md-as-trusted-instructions mechanism exploited across vectors. Details →First reported · updated · 8 reports enklypesalt.com
Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word | Hacker News
Researchers at enklypesalt.com demonstrated a document-borne, self-replicating prompt-injection worm that spreads through Microsoft Copilot for Word: a malicious Word document contains a hidden self-propagating prompt that, when processed by Copilot, forces the assistant to embed the same payload into other documents it drafts or edits, enabling zero-click chain propagation and data exfiltration. The write-up notes that at publication no robust mitigation for the broader vulnerability class was available, and the work is associated with assigned CVEs (CVE-2026-55145, CVE-2026-50522). Details →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
Notification-based Gemini prompt injection exposes AI assistant risk
SafeBreach Labs demonstrated that notification-based indirect prompt injections can manipulate Google Gemini through messaging channels like WhatsApp, Slack, and SMS, enabling fake trusted-contact messages, unauthorized tool use, memory poisoning, and recurring actions that persist after bypassing prior mitigations. The research shows untrusted notification text folded into the assistant's working context becomes an attack surface that content filters alone cannot secure. Details →First reported exploiting.systems
Prompt Injection in VirusTotal's Code Insights API
A researcher discovered prompt-injection flaws in VirusTotal's AI-powered Code Insights API (backed by gemini-2.5-flash), showing that embedded injection strings and false pretext in large block comments can suppress or alter analysis, force undocumented error schemas that leak the backend model, and induce false negatives or false positives. The bugs were accepted by Google's AI VRP on March 25, 2026 and are being patched. Details →First reported · updated · 2 reports calcalistech.com
Israeli researchers uncover zero-click attacks targeting AI browsers | Ctech
Israeli researchers demonstrated zero-click attacks against AI-powered browsers, reportedly hijacking agentic assistants like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas via malicious content embedded in emails and X posts. The attacks use indirect prompt injection that executes without any user interaction once the AI browser processes the poisoned content. Details →First reported arxiv.org
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
A paper titled "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs" and a reproduction by embracethered describe an attack that recovers encrypted LLM chain-of-thought blobs by replaying them to a weaker, easier-to-jailbreak model from the same provider, which then decodes and outputs the hidden reasoning in plaintext. The technique exploits the interchangeability of encrypted reasoning blocks across sessions, users, and models at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google; the researchers decoded 315,320 scraped reasoning blocks to recover 367 PII artifacts and 182 credentials, and the blogger reproduced the attack against OpenAI's GPT-5.6. Details →First reported · updated · 4 reports tenetsecurity.ai
Fake Bug Report Hijacks AI Coding Agents at Scale
Tenet Security demonstrated at DEF CON 34 an "agentjacking" attack where an attacker POSTs a crafted error event containing markdown-formatted malicious instructions to a publicly exposed Sentry DSN ingest endpoint; when a developer asks an MCP-connected coding agent (Cursor, Claude Code) to debug, the agent retrieves the injected event, treats it as authoritative remediation, and executes commands that pull a malicious npm package and exfiltrate AWS, GitHub, npm, Kubernetes and CI/CD credentials. Controlled testing across 100+ organizations succeeded 85 percent of the time; no CVE was assigned, and Sentry deployed only a payload-string filter. Tenet also released agent-jackstop, drop-in hardening configs (egress allowlist, command approval, credential-read blocking) for Cursor and Claude Code. Details →First reported medium.com
$1,500 AI System Prompt Leak: Using this Burp Suite Configuration
A bug bounty write-up by tinopreter describes leaking an AI application's system prompt at a company that rolled out AI across its assets, earning a $1,500 payout, and attributes the discovery to a particular Burp Suite proxy configuration that surfaced the prompt in intercepted traffic. Specific details, endpoints, and screenshots were altered for confidentiality. Details →First reported cybersecuritywriteups.com
When JPEGs Start Giving Orders: A Journey into Multi-modal Prompt Injection
A security researcher (Jobson) documents discovering multi-modal prompt injection in an AI-powered application that uses a vision-language model to generate captions from user-supplied images or image URLs. After initial SSRF testing failed, the researcher pursued injecting instructions via image content, whose AI-generated captions feed downstream application workflows. Details →First reported · updated · 10 reports noma.security
GitLost: How We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
Researchers at Noma Security disclosed GitLost, a technique in which an attacker opens an ordinary-looking issue on a public repository to trigger indirect prompt injection against GitHub Agentic Workflows. If the organization granted the agent read access across its repositories, the malicious issue can steer the agent into pulling private repository contents into a public comment, requiring no stolen credentials or organizational access. Details →First reported · updated · 2 reports darkreading.com
AI Browsers Vulnerable to 'PleaseFix' Zero-Click Agent Hijacking
Zenity Labs disclosed a new zero-click vulnerability class dubbed 'PleaseFix' at Black Hat USA 2026 that lets attackers hijack AI browser agents — including Claude in Chrome, Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas, and Copilot Edge — by hiding malicious instructions in emails and webpages the agents ingest. Because the agents combine and act on content from multiple sources without reliably separating trusted from untrusted input, they break the same-origin security model, allowing an adversary to weaponize the agent and reach sensitive data, accounts, and connected services. Details →First reported daily.dev
Understanding the Risks of Prompt Injection in Devin AI
Security research on Devin, an autonomous AI coding assistant from Cognition, demonstrated that prompt injection attacks embedded in GitHub issues or malicious websites can coerce the agent into downloading and running malware, exfiltrating secrets, and exposing local ports to the internet via its expose_port tool. A researcher who spent $500 testing showed Devin can be turned into a 'ZombAI' enabling data leaks through shell execution, browser navigation, markdown image rendering, and Slack integrations. The vulnerabilities were disclosed to Cognition in April 2025 but reportedly remain unpatched after 120+ days. Details →First reported · updated · 2 reports nhimg.org
Agentjacking exposes a broken trust model in AI coding agents
"Agentjacking," documented by Swarmnetics and Tenet Security, abuses the trust AI coding agents place in external error-report telemetry: an attacker who obtains a publicly exposed Sentry DSN can inject malicious instructions into error reports that the agent treats as actionable, enabling theft of cloud keys, Git credentials, and private repo URLs. The core flaw is that systems built to process trusted telemetry conflate source trust with action trust in MCP-connected agent workflows. Details →First reported · updated · 7 reports theregister.com
GitLost: How We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos - Noma Security
Noma Security disclosed GitLost, an indirect prompt injection attack against GitHub's Agentic Workflows in which an unauthenticated attacker posts a crafted issue on a public org repo and tricks the Claude/Copilot-backed agent into fetching a private repo's README.md and posting it into a public comment. The PoC used an 'Additionally' prefix to reframe output past guardrails and was demonstrated in the sasinomalabs org; it was disclosed to GitHub with no public patch date noted. Details →First reported cybermagazine.com
Morris II Worm: AI’s First Self-Replicating Malware | Cybersecurity Magazine
Morris II is a researcher-built, zero-click AI worm developed by Cornell Tech researchers that spreads via adversarial self-replicating prompts, tricking Gen AI models into replicating malicious input in their output. Tested against Gemini Pro, ChatGPT 4.0 and LLaVA, it demonstrates data extraction and spam propagation capabilities across AI-integrated ecosystems. Details →First reported · updated · 3 reports zenity.io
ChatGPT AgentForger Flaw Could Deploy Rogue Workspace Agents via a Phishing Link
Zenity Labs disclosed "AgentForger," a flaw in OpenAI's ChatGPT workspace agent builder that let a single crafted ChatGPT link silently create, configure, publish, and schedule an attacker-controlled autonomous agent inside a victim's workspace. The proof-of-concept agent inherited the employee's identity and connected apps (Outlook, Teams, Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive), disabled approval prompts, and used inbox messages tagged "TASK" as a covert command-and-control channel to search and exfiltrate corporate data. Details →First reported medium.com
A Fake Bug Report Made an AI Agent Steal a Live AWS Key. It’s Called Agentjacking & There’s No Patch | by @pramodchandrayan | Predict
A Medium write-up describes "agentjacking," an indirect prompt-injection technique in which a fake Sentry bug report contains hidden instructions that AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) execute when a developer asks them to triage errors, leading to exfiltration of a live AWS secret key. It cites a security firm's demonstration reporting 2,388 exposed organizations and an 85% success rate with no malware or user clicks, and argues that instructing an agent to "ignore untrusted content" does not prevent the attack. Details →First reported · updated · 2 reports asset-group.github.io
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 →First reported tenetsecurity.ai
A public Sentry key is all it takes to hijack Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex
Researchers at Tenet Security describe "agentjacking," an attack in which a publicly exposed Sentry key lets an attacker inject fake error messages that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex ingest via the Sentry MCP server. The crafted error content acts as an indirect prompt injection, hijacking the agent to execute attacker-directed actions; the team also published a mitigation tool, agent-jackstop, on GitHub. 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 nist.gov
NVD - CVE-2026-30741
CVE-2026-30741 is a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenClaw Agent Platform v2026.2.6 that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a request-side prompt injection attack. CISA-ADP rated it CVSS 3.1 base 9.8 (Critical), classified as CWE-94 code injection, with public exploit references including a GitHub PoC repository. Details →First reported · updated · 2 reports manifold.security
ClaudeBleed Reopened: Browser Extensions Can Still Push Claude for Chrome to Read Your Gmail
Manifold Security researcher Ax Sharma disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude for Chrome extension (v1.0.80). Any browser extension with a content script on claude.ai can inject a DOM element and dispatch a synthetic click that Claude treats as a legitimate user action, triggering one of nine hardcoded workflows that read Gmail, Google Docs, and Calendar or act on Salesforce; a second flaw initializes the side panel in privileged mode via a ?skipPermissions=true URL parameter with no consent. Rated CVSS 7.7 in default mode and 9.6 Critical when 'Act without asking' is enabled, and reportedly still reproducible after eight releases since being reported to Anthropic in May. Details →First reported ainowinstitute.org
Friendly Fire: Hijacking Defensive Cyber AI Agents for Remote Code Execution
The AI Now Institute published an exploit brief and PoC (GitHub: Boyan-MILANOV/friendly-fire-ai-agent-exploit) demonstrating remote code execution against Anthropic's Claude Code CLI (auto-mode) and OpenAI's Codex CLI (auto-review) when these defensive coding agents are used to assess third-party or open-source libraries. The attack embeds prompt injections across a library's source code to hijack the AI agent, requiring no hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, or config files as an injection vector. Details →First reported 0din.ai
Mozilla Shows the Danger of Indirect Prompt Injections in AI Coding Agents
Mozilla 0DIN researchers Andre Hall and Miller Engelbrecht demonstrated a proof-of-concept attack where a clean GitHub repository with no malicious code uses indirect prompt injection to trick AI coding agents like Anthropic's Claude Code into chaining routine actions that grant an attacker shell command access and persistence. The malicious payload never appears in the repository; instead it is pulled at runtime from DNS after the agent blindly trusts the repo, evading scanners and human review. 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 →First reported · updated · 2 reports adversa.ai
GuardFall: a universal shell injection vulnerability in open-source AI agents
GuardFall, disclosed by Adversa AI, is a universal shell injection vulnerability affecting open-source AI coding agents, where decades-old shell injection techniques bypass the agents' modern command-filtering safeguards. Because these agents run shell commands with the operator's full account authority, the flaw enables command execution across a surveyed cohort of 11 popular open-source agents. Details →First reported thehackernews.com
New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Leaking User Credentials
LayerX disclosed a technique called BioShocking that convinces AI browsers they are playing a game, tricking them into copying a user's credentials and sending them to an attacker. Six AI browsers and assistants were affected, including OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude browser extension. Details →How the wire is made
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