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GitHub AI Agent Vulnerable to Prompt Injection, Leaking Private Data

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Researchers at Noma Labs have discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability, dubbed GitLost, in GitHub's new Agentic Workflows. This flaw allows attackers to trick the AI agent into accessing and publicly disclosing data from private repositories by submitting specially crafted issues. The vulnerability exploits the way the AI agent interprets hidden malicious instructions within seemingly normal content, leading to unauthorized data exfiltration. AI

IMPACT This vulnerability highlights the risks of prompt injection in AI agents and could lead to increased scrutiny of AI security practices in developer tools.

RANK_REASON Disclosure of a security vulnerability in a specific product.

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GitHub AI Agent Vulnerable to Prompt Injection, Leaking Private Data

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    :github: GitLost: GitHub’s AI Agent tricked into leaking Private Repository Data. Noma Security’s research team [Noma Labs], has disclosed a critical prompt inj

    :github: GitLost: GitHub’s AI Agent tricked into leaking Private Repository Data. Noma Security’s research team [Noma Labs], has disclosed a critical prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows. The vulnerability, named GitLost, allowed researchers to trick G…

    LINKS noma.security/…/gitlost-how-we-tricked-gi…

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