Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
Read OriginalA security report details a now-fixed prompt injection vulnerability in Snowflake's Cortex AI agent. The attack chain began when the agent was tricked into reviewing a malicious GitHub README, leading it to execute shell commands via process substitution, bypassing safety allow-lists. The article discusses the inherent risks of such command pattern allow-lists and advocates for more deterministic sandboxing approaches for AI agents.
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