src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7
- Source-provided label
- Not reported
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Aug 20, 2025 11:00 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
Amazon Q Developer for VS Code Vulnerable to Invisible Prompt Injection
The Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension (Amazon Q) is a very popular coding agent, with over 1 million downloads. In previous posts we showed how prompt injection vulnerabilities in Amazon Q could lead to: Exfiltration of sensitive information from the user’s machine , and also to a System compromise by running arbitrary code Today we will show how an attack can leverage invisible Unicode Tag cha
Reference details
- Source category
- Research & news
- Report title
Amazon Q Developer for VS Code Vulnerable to Invisible Prompt Injection- First reported
- Aug 20, 2025 11:00 UTC
- Last reported
- Aug 20, 2025 11:00 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
- Record ID
da9b64738726c13ba7276937c637b07c2eb7373fa4dcfcea55e0857dd4b71ad8
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