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Microsoft says web-enabled AI agents can trigger host-level RCE
Microsoft is warning of a novel remote code execution (RCE) path possible through web-enabled AI agents, demonstrating the technique against AutoGen Studio, its open-source interface for building and testing multi-agent applications.
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Microsoft is warning of a novel remote code execution (RCE) path possible through web-enabled AI agents, demonstrating the technique against AutoGen Studio, its open-source interface for building and testing multi-agent applications. The demonstration showed that a malicious webpage rendered by an AutoGen-powered browsing agent could reach a local Model Context Protocol ( MCP ) service and run arbitrary processes on the host machine.
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