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June 30, 2026 at 14:26 UTC
GuardFall Exposes Open-Source AI Coding Agents to Decades-Old Shell Injection Risks
By [email protected] (The Hacker News)
AI Summary
Adversa AI's GuardFall research found that decades-old Bash shell injection techniques bypass the safety guardrails of 10 out of 11 popular open-source AI coding and computer-use agents tested, including all but the 'Continue' agent. This exposes a systemic supply chain attack surface where malicious repositories can hijack AI coding agents without any novel exploitation, purely through classic shell metacharacter abuse.
Relevance score: 72.0/100
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