Just one day after its release, security researchers discovered a severe flaw in Google’s new “Antigravity” AI coding assistant. The vulnerability allows attackers to inject a persistent backdoor into the user’s system, enabling the installation of malware or data theft.
Business Impact
This highlights the immaturity of security controls in rapidly released AI tools. Organizations rushing to adopt the latest AI assistants risk introducing critical vulnerabilities into their environment. A compromised AI coding tool can silently inject backdoors into every piece of software a developer writes.
Why It Happened
The tool failed to properly sandbox the code execution environment, allowing the AI model to execute arbitrary system commands on the host machine when processing malicious prompts or code snippets.
Recommended Executive Action
Restrict the use of “Antigravity” and similar bleeding-edge AI coding tools until they have passed a rigorous internal security review. Ensure developers run AI tools in isolated environments (containers/VMs) that cannot access production networks.
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