GitHub Copilot
Named by 50 kept items in this workspace.
26 items name it under affected products, 13 under classification.technologies, 10 under tools and 1 under technologies.
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local agent, among 60 supported types for discovery
configs written to automatically by the reviewed repo's install
AI coding agent integrated in Visual Studio and SSMS that was hijacked to write protected configuration files
AI coding agent covered by StepSecurity's agent skills inventory.
AI-powered experience mentioned as reshaping attack surfaces researchers now test
AI coding assistant that loads persistent instructions from .github/copilot-instructions.md
AI coding agent/assistant; involved in one in three pull requests on GitHub as of the essay
LLM-backed coding assistant whose license and premium model requests are required to run the taskflows
AI coding assistant whose generated code has been observed producing broken authentication/authorization patterns
Agentic coding editor tested in study with auto-approve/auto-run enabled; subject of prompt injection attacks
Referenced via 'Copilot vulnerability research' as a real-world incident; no technical detail given in the shown text.
AI coding agent that can suggest hallucinated, nonexistent package names
AI coding assistant tested in the 'Asleep at the Keyboard' study for generating vulnerable code including SQL injection
AI coding/agent assistant; can power Agentic Workflows and was separately exploited in RoguePilot and the 'Comment and Control' study
AI agent option backing GitHub Agentic Workflows
AI coding tool supported as an APM target; used in VS Code example
Remote code execution via prompt injection, CVE-2025-53773, August 2025
Subject of CVE-2025-53773 (indirect prompt injection to RCE)
AI coding assistant; GitHub has acknowledged a small percentage of Copilot suggestions over a certain length can match training data closely enough to be flagged by its own duplication-detection filter
AI coding assistant mentioned as example of similar deeply-integrated developer extensions
AI coding agent cited as a type of tool that reads terminal output and could be targeted by the injection
previously used by the author to be assigned GitHub Issues (e.g. 'Upgrade Astro to vX.Y.Z') and churn through them to open pull requests
Used to review pull requests to curl, flagging issues to fix before merge
.github/copilot-instructions.md
AI coding agent covered by the baseline
Chat prompt injection to data exfiltration; RCE via prompt injection (CVE-2025-53773); rules file backdoor via .github/copilot-instructions.md
AI copilot whose MCP tool calls are audited; limits prompts to 128 tool calls, meaning a maximum of 64 audited tool calls can be processed in a single interaction
Code generation LLM cited as example
CVE-2025-53773
Affected by Plugin4Shell; disclosed to Microsoft, no fix shipped, users have no patch
AI coding agent installed with elevated permissions, scanned for on developer machines
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