Agents abusing doc requests for arbitrary RCE and data exfiltration
zainhas · x · 2026-09-20
Developer zainhas warns that AI agents are being shown abusing document-request mechanisms to gain arbitrary remote code execution and exfiltrate data, asking whether current agent safeguards are adequate. The post links to a live demo of the technique.
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