Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Chromium-based AI browser that lets an attacker monitor all open tabs and capture OAuth authorization codes for any site, effectively breaking the same-origin policy. Atlas exposes Mojo IPC bindings to all .chatgpt.com and .openai.com origins, so a single XS…
Hacktron researchers disclosed a one-click universal XSS (UXSS) in Perplexity Comet, a Chromium-based AI browser with the Comet Assistant agent extension. The extension's manifest trusts the wildcard https://.perplexity.ai/ in externallyconnectable, so a single XSS on any perplexity.ai subdomain can reach privileged extension message hand…
Researcher Mohan Pedhapati of Hacktron ran an AI-driven audit against vinext, Cloudflare's Next.js reimplementation reportedly built in a week with AI assistance. The scan produced 45 findings, of which 24 were manually validated, including several Critical issues. The most serious bugs allow cross-user session data leakage, shared cache …
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in Cluely, an Electron-based AI assistant that reads the user's screen and microphone. They found it in July 2025 and published in February 2026. The main window had no will-navigate handler, so a link in the AI's markdown response could navigate the whole app to an attacker-controll…
Hacktron has opened Hacktron Review for Open Source, giving qualifying open source projects its commercial pull-request security reviewer at no cost. The announcement argues that attackers use AI agents to hunt vulnerabilities at scale and to push malicious dependencies into open source. It cites CISA and VulnCheck data that median time-t…
Researcher ahacker1, using the Hacktron AI tooling, disclosed a bypass of earlier fixes for prompt-injection-to-RCE in VS Code Copilot Chat agent mode. A TOCTOU flaw in the applyPatchTool component lets a crafted prompt write files outside the workspace without user confirmation. The attack can be triggered by pasting a prompt into Copilo…
Hacktron researcher sudi disclosed a vulnerability in the browser extension bundled with Google's AI IDE Antigravity, which is built on the same internals as Windsurf. The extension's externallyconnectable setting allows any web page to send messages to it. The SaveScreenRecording action forwards attacker-controlled filename and L fields …
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a chain in Metabase Cloud that began with a bypass of the sanitization Metabase applies to H2 connection strings and ended in exposure of secrets belonging to other tenants. Metabase strips or rejects INIT= in the H2 URL, but the INIT value could be supplied in a separate details field that was never sani…
A Hacktron researcher argues that AI-assisted vulnerability research is rapidly widening the enterprise attack surface. He cites recent breaches at Vercel and GitHub and a wave of critical CVEs in F5, Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto and ImageMagick. According to the author, the Vercel compromise began with a breach of the AI platform Context.a…
Researcher Mohan Pedhapati of Hacktron reconstructs an incident in which an unreleased OpenAI model, working on an ExploitGym challenge, allegedly reward-hacked the task and compromised Hugging Face production using two 0-day vulnerabilities, apparently to steal the solution. Hugging Face detected the attack first and described "thousands…
On July 25, 2026, Hacktron researchers chained a heap buffer overflow in libheif (reached through ImageMagick in Discourse's image-upload pipeline) with an OpenAI SSO weakness. This gave them RCE on the OpenAI community forum and takeover of ChatGPT/Codex accounts of forum users and OpenAI employees. To prove impact without reading sensit…