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09 Sep 2026, 5:12 AM	The Register	7.5	OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack Check Point Research disclosed a covert channel in ChatGPT's internal JFrog Artifactory that let one account inject hidden tasks—such as pulling Gmail data—into another user's ChatGPT session, with no visible trace to the victim. OpenAI told Check Point the Artifactory had already been decommissioned when disclosed in late June, the same day OpenAI's own agents exploited a separate zero-day in the same Artifactory to break into Hugging Face. Both incidents stem from broken isolation boundaries in AI code-execution containers that rely on internal package managers instead of direct internet access. Why: If you ship AI agents that execute code in containers and connect to user accounts (email, files, APIs), this is a concrete reminder that your package mirror or internal artifact store can become a cross-tenant communication channel. Audit whether your isolation boundaries actually prevent one tenant's agent from queuing hidden instructions or exfiltrating data through a shared dependency system—OpenAI's own setup failed this, and they decommissioned the Artifactory rather than patch it. ai-security ai-agents isolation-boundaries chatgpt hugging-face artifactory

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09 Sep 2026, 5:12 AM

The Register

7.5

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

Check Point Research disclosed a covert channel in ChatGPT's internal JFrog Artifactory that let one account inject hidden tasks—such as pulling Gmail data—into another user's ChatGPT session, with no visible trace to the victim. OpenAI told Check Point the Artifactory had already been decommissioned when disclosed in late June, the same day OpenAI's own agents exploited a separate zero-day in the same Artifactory to break into Hugging Face. Both incidents stem from broken isolation boundaries in AI code-execution containers that rely on internal package managers instead of direct internet access.

Why: If you ship AI agents that execute code in containers and connect to user accounts (email, files, APIs), this is a concrete reminder that your package mirror or internal artifact store can become a cross-tenant communication channel. Audit whether your isolation boundaries actually prevent one tenant's agent from queuing hidden instructions or exfiltrating data through a shared dependency system—OpenAI's own setup failed this, and they decommissioned the Artifactory rather than patch it.