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by orbital-decay 87 days ago
>Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

rolls eyes Actual content: prompt injection vulnerability discovered in a coding agent

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Well there's the prompt injection itself, and the fact that the agent framework tried to defend against it with a "sandbox" that technically existed but was ludicrously inadequate.

I don't know how anyone with a modicum of Unix experience would think that examining the only first word of a shell command would be enough to tell you whether it can lead to arbitrary code execution.