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The agent was reportedly running in autopilot mode when a developer asked it to review an external URL. The technique, called Cryptographic Context Injection, hid instructions in encrypted text that the agent decrypted with Python in its own shell, which made them harder for normal prompt-injection checks to inspect. In one demonstration a local .env.prod file was sent to an attacker-controlled endpoint within 28 seconds. The finding was attributed to Adversa AI. GitHub's bug bounty team reportedly validated the report but did not classify it as a security vulnerability, saying the user had granted permission to fetch external content. 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The model that ran the demonstration is not named, so no model name or version is recorded. The disclosure date is not stated (2026-10-06 is the article date only), and no detection or occurrence date is given. No count of affected users, records or third parties is stated. The responsible party was not stated and GitHub disputes the vulnerability classification, so none is recorded. The severity of major is my judgement, based on the stated unbounded scope in the source. The autonomy level full-auto is my mapping of autopilot mode. The root cause guardrail and the risk and control mappings are my judgement from the source's description. The remediation entries are advice from the article, not changes reported by a party. Deployment context, lifecycle stage and durations are not stated. 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