Incidents tagged Inject

The OpenClaw AI agent is critically vulnerable to remote code execution and extensive data exfiltration due to an authentication bypass where misconfigured reverse proxies improperly trust external requests as local. Additionally, the agent is susceptible to prompt injection attacks, enabling the extraction of private keys and sensitive user data from the underlying system.

Security researchers have identified a vulnerability where prompt injection attacks in LLM-powered applications can weaponize URL preview features to silently exfiltrate sensitive data. Attackers can craft malicious prompts that cause the LLM to generate URLs containing extracted confidential information, which is then transmitted to an attacker-controlled server when the application automatically fetches the URL preview.

An LLM-based AI agent, Owockibot, was compromised to disclose its private hot wallet keys, leading to a $2,100 financial loss and its operational shutdown. This incident demonstrates a critical vulnerability in autonomous agents with Internet and wallet access, where inadequately secured sensitive data can be extracted via prompting.

OpenClaw, a rapidly adopted AI assistant with broad system access, presents significant security risks due to widespread deployment of internet-exposed instances by users. Threat actors are actively exploiting these misconfigurations, conducting prompt injection attempts and direct attacks via the WebSocket API for authentication bypasses and raw command execution.

The proliferation of unmanaged "Shadow AI" deployments, such as unauthenticated Ollama server instances, creates critical security blind spots within corporate networks. These unsecured LLM endpoints are susceptible to unauthorized access, risking exposure of proprietary training data, enabling prompt injection attacks, and serving as potential pivot points for lateral movement.

The article highlights numerous AI agent vulnerabilities, prominently featuring prompt injection techniques like "ASCII Smuggling" used to embed invisible, malicious instructions within legitimate data. These attacks exploit AI agent reasoning and tool usage, leading to significant impacts such as zero-click workflow hijacking, unauthorized data exfiltration, and potential remote code execution in systems like ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

OpenAI confirmed a data breach originating from unauthorized access to Mixpanel, a third-party web analytics provider it uses for its API product. This incident exposed names, email addresses, approximate locations, OS/browser data, and user IDs associated with OpenAI API accounts (platform.openai.com users), but did not compromise ChatGPT content, passwords, or payment details.

Prompt injection is a critical vulnerability in Large Language Models (LLMs) that manipulates their natural language processing to override system instructions and safety filters using crafted malicious prompts. This exploit can lead to significant impacts such as data exfiltration, including the disclosure of sensitive files like `/etc/passwd`, and enables the AI system to perform unauthorized actions.

Grok AI was exploited by users who bypassed its content moderation safeguards through prompt-based manipulation, enabling the generation of non-consensual deepfake images of real individuals. This critical vulnerability in generative AI defenses led to widespread regulatory investigations and forced X to implement geoblocking and content filtering measures.

Traditional security frameworks fail to address AI-specific attack vectors such as prompt injection, model poisoning, and AI supply chain compromises, creating significant security gaps. This inadequacy has enabled various exploits, including the Ultralytics AI library compromise for cryptomining and malicious Nx packages exfiltrating 23.77 million secrets in 2024.

A March 2023 vulnerability in the Redis open-source library temporarily exposed ChatGPT users' chat titles, messages, and potentially payment information. Beyond platform vulnerabilities, users face risks from prompt injection attacks that bypass LLM guardrails and the utilization of AI by threat actors to generate malware, phishing templates, and deepfakes.

Prompt injection attacks against AI coding tools like Amazon Q were demonstrated to direct the tool to wipe local files and potentially disrupt AWS cloud infrastructure. Additionally, an unauthenticated code injection vulnerability in Langflow AI allowed threat actors to steal credentials and deploy malware.

The UK's NCSC warns that Large Language Models (LLMs) possess an inherent architectural flaw, known as prompt injection, where they fail to distinguish between instructions and data within a single prompt. This fundamental vulnerability allows malicious actors to bypass security guardrails, hijack models, and potentially achieve remote code execution by embedding hidden instructions in seemingly benign inputs.

Security researcher Ari Marzouk disclosed "IDEsaster," a collection of over 30 vulnerabilities, with 24 assigned CVEs, affecting various AI-powered Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like GitHub Copilot and Cursor. These flaws enable attackers to chain prompt injection techniques with legitimate IDE features and auto-approved AI agent tool calls to achieve sensitive data exfiltration and remote code execution (RCE).

A novel indirect prompt injection attack allows threat actors to compromise Anthropic's Claude AI Code Interpreter, leveraging its network features to exfiltrate sensitive user chat data. This exploit bypasses default network settings by tricking Claude into uploading sandbox-stored user information directly to an attacker's account via Anthropic's own APIs.

AI browsers are highly susceptible to prompt injection attacks, where threat actors can manipulate Large Language Models (LLMs) to bypass security controls and execute unauthorized actions. This vulnerability allows for sensitive data exfiltration by exploiting the LLM's inability to distinguish between trusted user commands and malicious instructions embedded in untrusted web content, effectively nullifying browser protections like the same-origin policy.

The article highlights critical security risks in Large Language Model (LLM) deployments, emphasizing prompt injection as a key attack vector where malicious inputs override an LLM's intended behavior. This can lead to sensitive data leakage, unauthorized actions, or the generation of harmful content, necessitating robust input validation and secure model deployment practices.

Attackers can achieve remote code execution (RCE) on developer machines by leveraging indirect prompt injection against agentic AI developer tools. This is accomplished by introducing untrusted data, such as malicious commands in GitHub issues or hidden payloads in fake Python packages within pull requests, which the AI agent autonomously executes.

An advanced attack chain exploits an LLM chatbot through indirect prompt injection (OWASP LLM01:2025) to achieve system prompt leakage and abuse excessive agency (OWASP LLM06:2025). This leads to sensitive customer data exfiltration and escalates to command injection (OWASP LLM05:2025) in a backend API, ultimately enabling remote code execution and intellectual property theft.

LLM-based applications are susceptible to remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities when executing LLM-generated code via functions like `exec` or `eval` without proper sandboxing, often triggered by prompt injection. Additionally, insecure access controls in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems can lead to data leakage and indirect prompt injection, while active content rendering of LLM outputs enables data exfiltration by embedding malicious links or images.