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Microsoft researchers found a major security risk in AutoGen Studio.
A malicious web page can take control of your computer through an AI agent.
The attack works in three stages:
- An AI agent visits a bad website.
- The website reaches your local Model Context Protocol socket.
- The attacker runs any command on your host machine.
This happens because of three main errors:
- An allowlist that attackers bypass easily.
- Security middleware that ignores MCP endpoints.
- Commands that take input from URLs without checking them first.
The vulnerable code never reached PyPI users. Still, this shows a big risk for all AI agent frameworks.
If you connect an AI agent to the internet and give it access to local services, you create a path for hackers.
Read the full technical report here: https://gridthegrey.com/posts/autojack-exploit-chain-achieves-rce-via-ai-agent-browsing-local-mcp-socket/
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