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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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DualView: Preventing Indirect Prompt Injection in Personal AI Agents

DualView is a research system from CompSec Lab @ SNU (arXiv:2607.03821) that defends personal AI agents such as OpenClaw against indirect prompt injection, including 'stored IPI' where attacker-controlled text persists in the file system, shell, or network and is re-read later as trusted data. It extends untrusted-data tracking beyond the agent context by giving each channel two views—AgentView (untrusted data appears as symbols) and HumanView (original data preserved)—deployed as an OpenClaw plugin via tool hooks, and reports blocking every IPI attack on an IPI benchmark and PinchBench while preserving utility. Details →

DualView: Preventing Indirect Prompt Injection in Personal AI Agents

DualView is a defense presented in an arXiv paper that extends untrusted-data tracking from a personal AI agent's context out into the user's environment (file system, shell, network, and other agents) to block indirect prompt injection, including a newly-highlighted 'stored IPI' variant where an agent saves attacker-controlled data and later rereads it as trusted. Deployed as an OpenClaw plugin using only tool hooks, DualView gives each channel an AgentView (untrusted data shown as symbols) and a HumanView (original data), and reportedly blocked every IPI attack on an IPI benchmark and PinchBench while preserving utility. Details →
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