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The MCP Inspector advisory describes a remote server supplying an OAuth authorization URL that entered an unescaped PowerShell double-quoted argument on Windows or WSL, permitting subexpression execution before any model tool call.
Setting: research demonstrationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: patch available
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A security reporter demonstrates that Mini-Agent 0.1.0 with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct executed a shell command embedded in a malicious MCP weather response; the same attempted injection was refused in a DeepSeek test.
Setting: research demonstrationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade CRemediation: mitigation available
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Northflank states that multiple customers reported unauthorized use of AI provider credentials previously supplied to its platform and instructs users to rotate all stored environment secrets.
Setting: productionExploitation: observed liveEvidence: Grade BRemediation: mitigation available
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GitHub advisory GHSA-q344-5v34-gm84 says @sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp versions 2.2.0 before 3.0.1 accepted unauthenticated HTTP /mcp requests even when MCP_API_KEY was set.
Setting: research demonstrationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: patch available
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The Poisoned Skills study reports that an attacker-authored skill file raised mean harmful completion rates from approximately 0.5 percent without injection to 45 percent with injection across the tested models and prompts.
Setting: evaluationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade CRemediation: mitigation available
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Presenton security issues report that the desktop build defaulted to DISABLE_AUTH=true and served its application-data directory over unauthenticated local HTTP, including files containing AI provider API keys.
Setting: research demonstrationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade CRemediation: mitigation available
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The trust-region study reports that placing the same adversarial instruction in different repository or workflow locations changes how often a tested AI agent follows it.
Setting: evaluationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade CRemediation: mitigation available
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GHSA-w9x9-j56r-h98r describes a Volto chatbot API route that accepted unauthenticated requests and forwarded them to Danswer using the server-configured credential, until version 2.0.4.
Setting: research demonstrationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: patch available
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In the 108-flaw VulnBench 2.0 study, Snyk Code matched 89 issues, Claude Code Opus 5 at high effort matched 85, and their union matched 101, while harness reporting policies excluded some real vulnerability classes.
Setting: evaluationExploitation: demonstratedEvidence: Grade BRemediation: mitigation available
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Wiz observed roughly 800,000 unauthorized Amazon Bedrock requests over thirty hours for one stolen customer credential, with approximately 90 percent succeeding.
Setting: productionExploitation: confirmed in the wildEvidence: Grade BRemediation: mitigation available
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Wiz observed a second stolen credential used for approximately 1.7 million Bedrock calls over thirteen hours after an actor adapted requests to its permitted US regional inference profiles.
Setting: productionExploitation: confirmed in the wildEvidence: Grade BRemediation: mitigation available
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