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SymJack: the approval prompt is lying to you. A symlink-hijack RCE in six AI coding agents

calendar_today May 26, 2026 domain adversa-ai

A SynJack attack tricks AI coding assistants into RCE through a symlink-disguised file copy. We tested six major tools. All were vulnerable.

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