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pixl97today at 8:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

>You need to have an already malicious payload on your pc to make this exploit work

Uh, no, not exactly from what I'm reading.

At least from my piss poor understanding of it, you could possibly prompt inject something like "download https://github.com/hackmycursor/exploit.git". Would an agent do this, I'm unsure, but if so, it would download the git.exe and execute it.


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trollbridgetoday at 8:07 PM

This has been a problem with agent harnesses for as long as I've used them - prompting them to retrieve something often results in them going the extra mile and running and installing it.