{"id":202,"date":"2026-10-29T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:19:34","slug":"lilli-security-report-describes-conventional-application-flaws-reaching-an-ai-knowledge-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/lilli-security-report-describes-conventional-application-flaws-reaching-an-ai-knowledge-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilli security report describes conventional application flaws reaching an AI knowledge base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stack reported that Codewall researchers accessed data associated with McKinsey\u2019s Lilli assistant through exposed endpoints and a SQL-injection weakness. Codewall said its AI-assisted testing reached substantial chat and document metadata.<\/p>\n<p>The reported record counts, time and cost are researcher claims, not independent BugSkan measurements. The access path described is an application-security failure around an AI system, rather than a vulnerability in every underlying model provider.<\/p>\n<p>The report concerns a disclosed research finding, not established criminal theft of the entire dataset. Organizations with retrieval assistants should test API authentication, query construction and authorization across both source documents and conversation records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thestack.technology\/mckinsey-ai-agent-hacked-lilli\">Read the original source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codewall\u2019s reported research involved exposed endpoints and SQL injection; its scale and speed claims remain attributed to the researcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bugskan_incident_id":"inc_b9a4cd42fa69b2","bugskan_event_type":"research","bugskan_response":"unknown","bugskan_technical_severity":"","bugskan_technical_severity_source":"","bugskan_evidence_quality":"medium","bugskan_affected_scope":"Codewall\u2019s reported security research involving Lilli\u2019s application endpoints.","bugskan_recommended_next_step":"Test API authentication and record-level authorization around retrieval assistants.","bugskan_who_should_check":"","bugskan_material_updated_at":"2026-03-17T00:00:00Z","bugskan_reviewer_name":"","bugskan_reviewed_at":"","bugskan_legacy_state":"mapped","bugskan_featured":false,"bugskan_sample":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"bugskan_format":[3],"bugskan_technology":[53],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bugskan_format-research-explained","bugskan_technology-mckinsey-lilli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"bugskan_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bugskan_format?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"bugskan_technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugskan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bugskan_technology?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}