24 Sep, 2026

Researchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on host

Security researchers found two ways out of the OpenAI Codex sandbox, one of them capable of running commands on a developer’s machine from Codex’s most locked-down mode, with no approval prompt and nothing shown on screen. Both flaws were reported to OpenAI on August 12 and fixed within eight days, according to Oren Yomtov of […]

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Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity hit by sandbox escapes

Security researchers broke out of the sandboxes in four widely used AI coding agents, including Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI and Antigravity, without attacking the sandbox head-on. The agent stays inside the box and follows every rule. It just writes a file that a trusted tool outside the box later runs, loads, or scans, […]

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