A malicious web page with an encrypted instruction can make GitHub Copilot CLI hand over passwords, depending on the model
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The more autonomous the agent, the more it matters which model sits inside: the same program behaves differently.
Adversa AI researchers demonstrated an attack: in autonomous mode, Copilot CLI opens a page containing an encrypted instruction and a key, decrypts it via Python and sends out secrets such as the .env file. Encryption helps bypass filters, and success depends on the model: Microsoft's mai-code-1.1-flash went through the whole chain in 50% of attempts, while both tested GPT-5.6 models refused. GitHub does not consider this a product vulnerability, since the user themselves directs the agent to untrusted content; Adversa reported the issue on September 17.
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