The story’s score and claims

Comments on No. 30 of 127 · Forever · edition of Friday 30 October 2026

Embrace: RCE, Address Bar Spoofing and More in Cursor, Codex, Copilot and Claude

Summary

Security researchers documented five AI coding tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, VS Code, and Claude Desktop) that embed a browser the AI agent controls, and found that each one let a malicious web page or local file run code on the host, read arbitrary local files, or spoof the address…

Comments

Ranked by a public rubric, not by votes: what a comment adds counts, not who wrote it. How comments are ranked · Comment rules