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Researchers Find New GhostApproval Bug in Many AI Coding Assistants

medduo_decipherPublished 2026-07-08

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Security researchers have identified a new set of vulnerabilities that are present in many of the top AI coding assistants and allows malicious repositories to bypass workspace sandboxes and potentially achieve remote code execution on a user’s machine.&nbsp;</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The bug is a modern twist on a Clinton-era piece of known Unix badness: f

MITRE ATT&CK techniques

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://decipher.sc/2026/07/08/researchers-find-new-ghostapproval-bug-in-many-ai-coding-assistants/