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An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets
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Mirko Zorz
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Security researcher Elad Meged has demonstrated that AI agents can leak sensitive data even when passing standard safety checks. The vulnerability lies in the 'harness'—the system that executes commands—which can be manipulated through prompt injection to perform unauthorized actions.
An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets A pull request lands with a tidy bug report in the description. A bot reads it before any person does, pulls a few shell commands out of it, gets them approved, and posts the output back on the thread. The maintainer reads the whole exchange the next morning.
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