2025-08 · 2025-Q3
GitHub Copilot RCE via Prompt Injection
Who actually said "do this"?
- Fixable
- Vendor patch
- Vendor response
- Patched
- In the wild
- No
- Actor
- Attacker
Target
GitHub Copilot (VS Code)
Impact
Prompt injection in code comments enables "YOLO mode" - disabling all confirmations and executing privileged shell commands
Root cause
Copilot processes untrusted content from code comments as instructions; no safeguard against config modification
CVE
Sources
Catalog
Cite this: AgentProv incident record: GitHub Copilot RCE via Prompt Injection (2025-08). https://agentprov.com/incidents/2025-08-github-copilot-rce-via-prompt-injection
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