Race Condition Plus User Trickery: Agent Bug Enabled Arbitrary File Writes
wunderwuzzi23 · x · 2026-10-08
Security researcher wunderwuzzi discusses a fixed AI agent vulnerability: combining a race condition with user trickery achieved arbitrary file writes outside the workspace. He calls it creative and clever — not world-ending and patched quickly, but folks would lose it if an AI agent exploited it in the wild.
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