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Cline: Vulnerable To Data Exfiltration And How To Protect Your Data

Cline is quite a popular AI coding agent, according to the product website it has 2+ million downloads and over 47k stars on GitHub. Unfortunately, Cline is vulnerable to data exfiltration through the rendering of markdown images from untrusted domains in the chat box. This allows an adversary to exfiltrate sensitive user information during a prompt injection attack by reading sensitive data (e.g.

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Cline: Vulnerable To Data Exfiltration And How To Protect Your Data
First reported
Aug 27, 2025 15:20 UTC
Last reported
Aug 27, 2025 15:20 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
Record ID
62bb953ebb8bfd6c76a41eb6bc8bb43078bcfc2fd09917aad1a790dc4bc0ffca

Published indicators

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Source observations

src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Aug 27, 2025 15:20 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
  • src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7Collection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

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