Researchers have disclosed a cryptographic context injection vulnerability in GitHub Copilot CLI that allows attackers to trick the coding agent into exfiltrating developer secrets from a victim's local machine. The vulnerability, discovered by Adversa AI and publicly disclosed in early October 2026, exploits a fundamental weakness in how code agents process and trust decrypted instructions embedded in attacker-controlled web content.
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