Forensic Summary
Wiz researchers disclosed GhostApproval, a symlink-based attack affecting six AI coding assistants — Amazon Q Developer, Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf — that allows malicious repositories to write attacker-controlled content to sensitive files such as SSH authorized_keys or shell startup scripts. The core failure is an informed-consent bypass: the agent's approval dialog names a harmless file while the write targets a sensitive one, or in some tools the write completes before any prompt appears. Three vendors have patched, two have not, and Anthropic disputes the classification as a vulnerability.
Read the full technical deep-dive on Grid the Grey: https://gridthegrey.com/posts/ghostapproval-symlink-flaw-hits-six-ai-coding-agents/
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