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Google Cloud Vertex AI - Data Exfiltration Vulnerability Fixed in Generative AI Studio

Large Language Model (LLM) applications and chatbots are quite commonly vulnerable to data exfiltration. In particular data exfiltration via Image Markdown Injection is frequent. This post describes how Google Cloud’s Vertex AI - Generative AI Studio had this vulnerability that I responsibly disclosed and Google fixed. A big shout out to the Google Security team upfront, it took 22 minutes from report submission to receiving a confirmation from Google that this is a security issue that will be fixed.

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
Oct 19, 2023 13:35 UTC
Last reported
Oct 19, 2023 13:35 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 14, 2026 02:57 UTC
Record ID
bea14ab96dbf1bfb2273da04b6685c9c8abb8f2316b53e5b076842da504e54d1

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Source observations

intelligence_src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7

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Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Oct 19, 2023 13:35 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 14, 2026 02:57 UTC

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

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