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GuardFall: a universal shell injection vulnerability in open-source AI agents

medadversaPublished 2026-06-30

<p><strong>The filter that&#8217;s supposed to stop dangerous commands in AI coding agents and computer agents is the reason teams feel safe enough to skip the human checks. Yet a thirty year old shell trick walks straight through this filter. One agent design shows the fix is known.</strong></p> <p>AI coding agents and computer use agents run shell commands with your full account authority: your

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Original source: https://adversa.ai/blog/opensource-ai-coding-agents-shell-injection-vulnerability/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=opensource-ai-coding-agents-shell-injection-vulnerability