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Cloudflare Workers AI leak exposes customer data; prompt injection via image tags discussed

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A security vulnerability in Cloudflare's Workers AI service exposed sensitive data from 155 customers for two weeks. The issue stemmed from a pool size mismatch and a bug in the SGLang library, allowing leaked context from one customer's interactions to appear in another's responses. Separately, a discussion on Mastodon highlights a prompt injection vulnerability where an AI assistant, when asked to summarize an inbox, included sensitive subject lines in an image tag, which was then automatically fetched by the user's browser. AI

IMPACT Highlights critical security risks in AI services and the need for robust input/output sanitization to prevent data leaks and prompt injection attacks.

RANK_REASON Security vulnerability in a cloud AI service and a discussion of prompt injection techniques.

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Cloudflare Workers AI leak exposes customer data; prompt injection via image tags discussed

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COVERAGE [3]

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

    Cloudflare's KV cache exposure on Workers AI let 155 responses leak other customers' context for two weeks, caused by a pool size mismatch and an SGLang bug. #

    Cloudflare's KV cache exposure on Workers AI let 155 responses leak other customers' context for two weeks, caused by a pool size mismatch and an SGLang bug. # security # cloudflare # ai # cloudcomputing # software # coding # development # engineering # inclusive # community Clou…

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

    You have 20 hours over 2 weeks to prepare for this role. I would not spend that time collecting... # ai # beginners # software # coding # development # engineer

    You have 20 hours over 2 weeks to prepare for this role. I would not spend that time collecting... # ai # beginners # software # coding # development # engineering # inclusive # community AI Automations Crash Course

    LINKS dev.to/…/ai-automations-crash-course-3glo
  3. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The assistant could read your inbox. That was the feature. Summarise this thread. What did the supplier ask for. Draft a reply. The answers came back in markdow

    The assistant could read your inbox. That was the feature. Summarise this thread. What did the supplier ask for. Draft a reply. The answers came back in markdown, and the chat window rendered them. Bold, lists, links, images. It looked lovely. Then a red team email arrived. Ordin…

    LINKS dev.to/…/your-chat-window-loaded-an-image…

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