Severity

high

Exposure

5/5

Date of incident

August 12, 2025
Imported item 6

confirmed

Tier -

A

Copilot agent ran injected shell commands — no execution hop blocked local RCE.
What Happened

Copilot agent mode passed unsanitized input to shell commands; researchers demonstrated prompt-injection chains enabling arbitrary local execution without adequate execution-boundary mediation.

Sumarry

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2025-53773 — command injection in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio allowing local code execution via crafted agent inputs.

Detect

Agent sandbox + deny auto-approve on shell tools

What Happened

Runtime enforce on destructive tool class; disable chat.tools.autoApprove

Blekline //

Block shell tool class at enforce hop unless explicitly allowed

Without agent boundary //

User approves agent commands individually — prompt injection bypasses review

Financial services AI security use case

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