src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7
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- mentioned in report
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- Observed
- Aug 12, 2025 21:20 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)
This post is about an important, but also scary, prompt injection discovery that leads to full system compromise of the developer’s machine in GitHub Copilot and VS Code. It is achieved by placing Copilot into YOLO mode by modifying the project’s settings.json file. As described a few days ago with Amp, a vulnerability pattern in agents that might be overlooked is that if an agent can write to fil
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- Research & news
- Report title
GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)- First reported
- Aug 12, 2025 21:20 UTC
- Last reported
- Aug 12, 2025 21:20 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
- Record ID
030d7b4a2b4ed6ac9eabd289b3c0c9fc7da387933fb338cf89c2f5571d594fe0
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