AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability

This article details how indirect prompt injection exploits multi-modal AI agents by embedding malicious instructions within innocuous images or documents, leading to sensitive data exfiltration without user interaction. The "Pandora" PoC AI agent demonstrates this by processing a malicious Python payload within an MS Word document, executing code, and leaking data to a command-and-control server.

What Happened

This article details how indirect prompt injection exploits multi-modal AI agents by embedding malicious instructions within innocuous images or documents, leading to sensitive data exfiltration without user interaction. The "Pandora" PoC AI agent demonstrates this by processing a malicious Python payload within an MS Word document, executing code, and leaking data to a command-and-control server.

Why This Matters

Current evidence identifies a security issue involving the affected technology, but does not yet support a more specific impact claim.

Recommended Action

No confirmed vendor remediation is available in the current evidence. Confirm whether the affected technology is present in your environment and review the affected configuration.

Exposure

Exposure reason: This incident does not currently match a technology in My AI Stack.

Exploitation status: UNKNOWN

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Timeline

• Incident first seen
  May 13, 2025 05:30

  BugSkan first recorded this incident.

• Unveiling AI Agent Vulnerabilities Part III: Data Exfiltration - www.trendmicro.com
  May 13, 2025 05:30

  trendmicro.com · Research

Sources

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