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GuardFall Exposes Open-Source AI Coding Agents to Decades-Old Shell Injection Risks

The safety check that is supposed to stop an AI coding agent from running a dangerous command can be walked straight past using a shell trick that has been public for decades. New research from Adversa AI, which is name...

The safety check that is supposed to stop an AI coding agent from running a dangerous command can be walked straight past using a shell trick that has been public for decades. New research from Adversa AI, which is named the bypass GuardFall, found it works against ten of the eleven popular open-source coding and computer-use agents the firm tested. Only one, "Continue," was built to

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