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Indirect Prompt Injection Hijacks Claude Code and AI Coding Agents
AI-powered coding agents, specifically Claude Code, are vulnerable to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) via poisoned grounding sources such as GitHub repositories and fake bug reports. Attackers embed hidden instructions within source code or documentation that manipulate the agent's authorized toolset to execute arbitrary terminal commands. A critical escalation involves using DNS TXT records as a covert delivery mechanism for final payloads, bypassing traditional static analysis to establish a reverse shell on the developer's workstation. This vector enables full system compromise, facilitating the exfiltration of SSH keys and environment variables, and scales across any developer interacting with the poisoned repository.
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