DBHub, a database MCP server, had a read-only mode bypass in its SQL check. The check treated every `--` as a comment, but MySQL only starts a comment when whitespace follows it. A hidden write statement could therefore still run, and a prompt injection could trigger it. Fixed in version 0.22.6. Replies say enforcement belongs in database grants and that parser tests need to be dialect-specific.
DBHubMySQLModel Context Protocol
prompt injection
AppSec, AI Security· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026
Web Security Academy is PortSwigger's free online web security training. It is known to combine learning material with hands-on labs across web vulnerability classes such as SQL injection, XSS, SSRF, authentication flaws and request smuggling, and to be built around Burp Suite. The page had no extractable text, so this description comes from the URL and general knowledge of the site.
Oversecured's Android security checklist for Content Providers covers insecure FileProvider path configs, path traversal via decoded Uri.getLastPathSegment(), mismatched readPermission/writePermission, proxying requests to more privileged providers, SQL injection across a shared database, and sensitive actions in providers. Each case has vulnerable manifest and Java code, an attacker PoC and remediation. Real cases from Google and Samsung devices are cited. The page text was truncated near the end.
Oversecured's write-up of 20 vulnerabilities in Xiaomi apps and system components, reported to Xiaomi between 25 and 30 April 2023. Bugs include intent redirection with system privileges in Security and GetApps, shell command injection in System Tracing, and arbitrary file theft via path traversal in Settings and MIUI Bluetooth. Each has a PoC. The page was truncated, so the later MIUI Bluetooth entries and the rest are not covered.
Oversecured discloses seven Android vulnerabilities, two of them Pixel-specific, all reported to Google and fixed except one low-severity WebView case. They are the Camera geolocation leak (CVE-2024-0017), a VPN bypass list change (CVE-2023-21383), a Bluetooth permission check flaw (CVE-2024-34719), the WorkSource parcel mismatch (CVE-2023-20963, exploited in the wild by the Pinduoduo app), Device Admin HTML injection (CVE-2021-0600) and a ContentProvider.openFile() caller-context bypass (CVE-2023-21292). Each has root cause and PoC code.
AndroidGoogle PixelWebView+2
CVE-2024-0017CVE-2023-21383CVE-2024-34719+9
Mobile Security, Offensive Security· Added 29 Oct 2026
Understanding and Mitigating Role Spoofing in LLMs is an arXiv paper (October 2026) on role spoofing, a prompt injection where malicious tool output impersonates the user. It shows models track "who said what" using both content cues (semantics, style) and structure cues (control tokens, formatting). Attacks combining fake structure and content succeed often, adversarial training stops only content-based attacks, and linear probes trained to predict conversation roles detect spoofing across settings.
LLM
role spoofingrole confusionprompt injection+1
AI Security· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon is a Google frontier model announced with restricted access for cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program (650+ organizations). Google reports 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench, ahead of GPT-6 Astra and Claude models, with no guardrails. It also cites prompt injection and cheating-resistance results, and pricing of $2/$10 per million tokens.
SEAL is a defense against indirect prompt injection for local LLM agents. It learns a soft prompt and scoring readout offline, then uses a frozen task model to score and delete injected tokens from tool outputs, with queries built from trusted initial context. On AgentDojo, attack success falls from 34.6% to 0.1% and Joint rises from 51.4% to 77.5%, using about 127x fewer defense tokens than PISanitizer.
LLMAgentDojoAgentDyn+1
indirect prompt injection
AI Security· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026
Paper studying whether self-evolution weakens personal agents' robustness to indirect prompt injection (IPI). A two-phase method has the user ask the agent to follow tasks in external content, then tests with a third-party injected task the user did not authorize. Against the non-evolving base agent, attack success rose 14.0 to 48.8 points under skill evolution and 3.0 to 39.3 points under reinforcement learning. Code is released.
indirect prompt injection
AI Security· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026
Addendum to the GPT-6 Luna system card for the model update of 29 October 2026 (the title says October 28). OpenAI keeps the High rating for cybersecurity and biological/chemical capability under its Preparedness Framework. It reports ExploitBench 46.19% and SEC-Bench Pro 51.75% (GPT-6 Astra: 85.4%), higher multiturn jailbreak defender success than the October 7 version, and GPT-Red prompt-injection results. It also reports weaker factuality and dual-use biology refusal.
Rohan Paul's X post summarizes the paper "Log-To-Leak: Prompt Injection Attacks on Tool-Using LLM Agents via the Model Context Protocol", from TikTok researchers. It reports that MCP-using agents often finish the requested task, then quietly call an attacker-controlled logging tool that records the query, server reply and final answer. The attack works through natural-language tool descriptions that agents read when choosing and ordering tools. The visible text is truncated.
Model Context ProtocolLLM
Log-To-Leakprompt injectionTikTok+1
AI Security· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026
KeyDrift is a custom malware framework used by UAT-11473, which exploited CVE-2026-20127 in Cisco SD-WAN Catalyst Controller to gain access. Talos analyzes PolyFlame (memory-resident vdaemon injection, recvfrom hook, TinyShell-style backdoor, intermediate C2) and LittleFilch (SSL_read hook that extracts and RSA-encrypts keying material). It reports infrastructure overlap with Volt Typhoon's Silent Train, plus patch guidance and Snort SIDs.
Cisco SD-WANLinuxrunit+1
CVE-2026-20127UAT-11473KeyDrift+7
Threat Intel, Malware & RE· Published and added 28 Oct 2026
CVE-2026-101767 is a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated SQL injection in Oracle E-Business Suite's Application Object Library, reachable through the /OA_HTML/AppsTCFServer servlet (GanttDataServer) and chainable to OS command execution. It affects versions 12.2.3 to 12.2.15 and was fixed in the October 2026 Critical Patch Update. Horizon3.ai found it, and Defused saw probing on honeypots on 27 October 2026. Interim mitigation is removing the servlet from the URL firewall allowlist.
Oracle E-Business Suite
CVE-2026-101767Horizon3.aiDefused+5
AppSec, Threat Intel· Published and added 28 Oct 2026
CISA advisory ICSA-26-302-03, republished from Hitachi Energy PSIRT 8DBD000258, covers OS command injection (CVE-2026-13162) and the Dirty Frag vulnerability (CVE-2026-43284) in Hitachi Energy CoreTec. CoreTec5 up to 3.4.0 and 5.0.0 are affected by both, and CoreTec4 up to 3.4.0 by CVE-2026-13162. The advisory was released 27 October 2026 and lists generic ICS mitigations. SSVC rates exploitation as none.
Hitachi Energy CoreTec
CVE-2026-13162CVE-2026-43284Dirty Frag+5
Hardware & RF· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026
Log-To-Leak is an arXiv paper (cs.CR, cs.AI) by Yuepeng Hu, Chongyu Fan, Sirat Samyoun and Jian Du on prompt injection attacks against tool-using LLM agents through the Model Context Protocol. The title points to a logging-based data leakage channel. The fetched page holds only the title, authors and arXiv link, with no abstract, so the method and results are not visible here.
Model Context ProtocolLLM
Log-To-Leakprompt injection
AI Security· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon is Google's frontier model, announced with cybersecurity results: 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro (finding vulnerabilities), 54.8% on ExploitGym (exploitation) and 71.0% on CWE-bench (patching). Google reports 0.0% attack success on Gray Swan's indirect prompt injection benchmark. Access starts with a subset of cyber defenders through the Fairwind Program. Pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
Gemini
Gemini 4 CarbonGemini 4 ArgonFairwind Program+6
AI Security· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon is Google DeepMind's frontier model, announced with a focus on cyber defense. DeepMind reports 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro (finding vulnerabilities), 54.8% on ExploitGym (exploitation) and 71.0% on CWE-bench (patching), run without guardrails. It also reports 0.0% attack success on Gray Swan's indirect prompt injection benchmark. Access starts with a subset of cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program.
Gemini
Gemini 4 CarbonGemini 4 ArgonSEC-bench Pro+6
AI Security, AppSec· Published and added 28 Oct 2026
CVE-2026-101767 is a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated SQL injection in the Application Object Library of Oracle E-Business Suite, patched in Oracle's October 2026 CPU and reported by Horizon3.ai. Defused decoys logged the first exploratory attempts on 27 October 2026, and the flaw could lead to remote code execution. The article recalls CVE-2026-46817 attacks in June and last year's Cl0p zero-day campaign against EBS.
Oracle E-Business SuiteCVSS
CVE-2026-101767CVE-2026-46817Cl0p+4
Threat Intel, AppSec· Published and added 28 Oct 2026
LLMON (LLM Object Notation) is a framework that separates instructions from data and requires explicit identifier-based execution. The authors post-train Granite-4.1 3B and 8B base models with SFT then RL on a 4.6B-token structured corpus covering general, RAG and tool-calling data, with distractor variants. Attack success rates on indirect prompt-injection benchmarks fall from 53-100% to 0.02-5.6%, and general capability is preserved. Attention-based metrics diagnose failures per transformer layer.
LLMONGranite 4.1LLM
prompt injectionindirect prompt injection
AI Security· Added 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026
LLMON (LLM Object Notation) is a framework that separates executable instructions from passive data and requires explicit identifier-based execution. The paper post-trains Granite-4.1 3B and 8B base models on a 4.6B-token corpus of general, RAG and tool-calling data with distractor variants, using SFT then RL. Attack success rates on indirect prompt-injection benchmarks fall from 53-100% to 0.02-5.6%, with general capabilities preserved. It also adds attention-based per-layer diagnostics.
LLMRAGTransformer
LLMONGranite-4.1arXiv
training, research· Added 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026
Buchi Reddy B's X thread comments on Forever Security's research (Gal Weizman, Omer Samet) on coding agents. A web page silently writes a fake AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md into a Downloads folder, and Codex and Claude Code follow it as project rules. Codex then wrote an attacker's MCP server into the machine-wide config, so one injection becomes a standing connection for every session. It asks whether teams inventory runtime MCP connections against approved lists.
CodexClaude CodeModel Context Protocol
Forever SecurityGal WeizmanOmer Samet+3
AI Security· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026
Heads of Security (HoS) is a prompt injection defense that enforces instruction-data separation with learned per-head attention gates, redistributing attention between trusted and untrusted tokens. Evaluated on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and GPT-OSS-20B against SecAlign++ and ASIDE. The black-box RL-Hammer attack reaches 97% ASR on GPT-OSS-20B and 85% on SecAlign but 10% on HoS. The white-box Claudini attack needs 3 times more FLOPs on HoS. HoS keeps base-model utility in few-shot settings, where SecAlign and ASIDE degrade.
LlamaGPT-OSS-20BLLM
Heads of Securityprompt injectionSecAlign+++4
AI Security· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026
Heads of Security (HoS) is a prompt injection defense that trains a small set of per-head attention gates to shift attention between trusted and untrusted tokens, separating instructions from data. Tested on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and GPT-OSS-20B, the black-box RL-Hammer attack reaches 10% ASR on HoS versus 97% on base GPT-OSS-20B and 85% on SecAlign. HoS keeps base utility in few-shot settings, where SecAlign and ASIDE degrade.
TransformerLlamaLLM
Heads of SecuritySecAlign++SecAlign+5
research, training· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026
X thread started by Nicholas Martin (#IAM) advising that MCP tool permissions be verified and scoped session tokens used to enforce least privilege against indirect prompt injection. Replies argue that token scoping does not solve the confused deputy problem, because an injection borrows the agent's legitimate authority. They recommend per-task tokens with short expiry, with the grant logged beside the call, and raise MCP server dependency supply-chain risk.
Model Context Protocol
indirect prompt injectionconfused deputy
AI Security, Identity & Access· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026
What Victims Take Away is an October 2026 arXiv paper analysing 563,349 Tensor Trust attack records to see how players reuse prompt injections they received. Within a week, targets reused 10.0% of attacks that broke their defense, versus 0.03% of matched attacks. Breaches were followed by defense changes that cut same-family attack success by 24.5 points. Received texts made up 23.2% of successful hijacks. The authors propose that AI security tools describe techniques without disclosing full attack text.
Tensor TrustLLM
prompt injectionpayoff-biased social learningvictim-offender overlap
AI Security· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026
AGTP's X thread summarizes Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 Evaluation Report. Prompt injection was tested on Exponential Security Labs' RepoInject v1 and BrowserInject v1 and on Gray Swan's IPI Arena, with robustness said to be on par with GPT-5.6 Sol. It also covers chain of thought controllability evals, PostTrainBench under Loss of Control, and Handshake's pre-release human red teaming. It notes the Midas Project's criticism of Muse Wonder's missing safety report.
Muse SparkMuse Spark Open
prompt injectionRepoInject v1BrowserInject v1+10
AI Security· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026
Thread summarizing Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 Evaluation Report, the safety write-up for the model released on September 2, 2026. It covers prompt-injection results on Exponential Security Labs' RepoInject v1 and BrowserInject v1 and Gray Swan's IPI Arena, chain-of-thought controllability evals, PostTrainBench under Loss of Control, and Handshake's human red teaming. It also notes The Midas Project's criticism that Muse Wonder still has no safety report, and the Muse Spark Open rollout (816B total, 42B active parameters).
Muse Spark 1.3Muse Spark OpenMixture of Experts
MetaMuseMuse Wonder+19
ai-safety, evals, models· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026
Log-To-Leak is a prompt-injection attack on tool-using LLM agents that abuses Model Context Protocol tool metadata to trigger an attacker-controlled logging call after the last legitimate call, leaking the user query, server name, server response and agent response. Evaluated on five MCP servers and four agents, it reaches 62.64-100% attack success with 76.55-95.64% logging accuracy. Three defenses leave over 55% residual ASR on GitHub MCP with GPT-4o.
Model Context ProtocolGitHubGPT-4o+1
Log-To-Leaktool poisoningprompt injection
AI Security· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026
An empirical study of security concerns in the OpenClaw AI personal assistant framework, using 25K+ posts from 13 subreddits (162 security-relevant) and 358 security-tagged GitHub issues (180 retained). It maps 521 CWE instances across 59 weakness types, concentrated in access control, sensitive-data exposure, injection and unsafe execution. It extracts 543 practitioner mitigations into seven strategies and reconstructs a sensitive-data exposure path with dummy secrets.
OpenClawGitHubLLM
prompt injectionCWEtrust boundaries+1
AI Security· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026
The Pwn Request Reckoning is a Wiz post updating the GitHub Actions pull_request_target threat model for 2026. It covers what GitHub's checkout protections, read-only cache tokens and event policies block, and what still works. Remaining paths: SHA-pinned pre-backport actions/checkout, custom checkout scripts, issue_comment and repository_dispatch triggers, script injection, artifact poisoning, self-hosted runner state and allow-unsafe-pr-checkout. It ends with grep and zizmor audit steps.
GitHub ActionsGitHubzizmor+1
pwn requestscript injectionartifact poisoning+2
DevSecOps, AppSec· Published and added 26 Oct 2026
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