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GitHub Copilot RCE via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)

2026-07-12 11:56 UTC · HN (cve) · read the source ↗ #prompt-injection#rce#ai-tooling
  • Engineer — Plan: GitHub Copilot is broadly deployed on developer workstations; a public PoC exists for this RCE-via-prompt-injection path, but EPSS is 0.03 and it is not KEV-listed. Check for an available Copilot update and audit whether your pipelines or editors process untrusted file content through Copilot without sandboxing.
  • SOC/IR — Learn: Prompt injection as an RCE delivery mechanism in AI coding assistants is a novel developer-endpoint attack class worth adding to your threat model, but the summary provides no IOCs or ATT&CK-mappable TTPs to act on for detection tuning today.
  • Leader — Plan: If your organization deploys GitHub Copilot to developers (very common), a demonstrated RCE path represents a developer-workstation supply-chain risk; confirm with engineering whether a patched version is available and assess exposure this quarter before exploitation pressure rises.
  • Signals: CVE-2025-53773 — CISA KEV: not listed, EPSS 0.03, public PoC on GitHub
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