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Hi, I’m Max from the OpenAI security team. We appreciate the security research here, and it’s unfortunate this one slipped through a crack in our disclosure pip
by maxburkhardt 4mo ago
Hi, I’m Max from the OpenAI security team. We appreciate the security research here, and it’s unfortunate this one slipped through a crack in our disclosure pipeline. As we’re now aware of this report, we’ve taken immediate steps to protect users against potential attacks in this area by removing the model’s ability to generate Apps Script code, which should eliminate the risk to users of ChatGPT for Google Sheets. We’re taking a close look at how this feature interacts with Google Sheets APIs and re-evaluating our sandboxing approach to make sure this product is as resistant as possible against prompt injection attacks. More broadly, we’ll be doing a re-review of similar functionality in other surfaces to make sure that our defenses are consistent and effective across the board.
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- user3939382 4mo ago> removing the model’s ability to generate Apps Script code I use this feature with my agents on a daily basis so hopefully you develop a more surgical approach to security here and restore this
- crisnoble 4mo agoNot to mention how this does nothing about all the other ways an attacker could could exfiltrate data with default google sheets formulas like IMPORTHTML, IMPORTXML, or even HYPERLINK which will all generate http request.
- blitzar 4mo agoOops I did it again ... We're Sorry
- chii 4mo ago... I played with your heart Got lost in the game Oh, baby, baby Oops, you think I'm in love That I'm sent from above I'm not that innocent -- Britney.
- throw1234567891 4mo agoWrong. Martin Max / Rami Yacoub.
- yakshaving_jgt 4mo agoMax Martin, not Martin Max.
- throw1234567891 4mo agoBlame google. Copy pasta.
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 4mo agonope.
- throw1234567891 4mo agoWell, yeah. Just google who wrote the song. Jezus.
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- da_grift_shift 4mo ago>We appreciate the security research here >it’s unfortunate this one slipped through a crack in our disclosure pipeline >As we’re now aware of this report This isn't the first time. https://x.com/PhilipTsukerman/status/1988634162773778501 https://x.com/PhilipTsukerman/status/1988634162773778501 https://x.com/_xpn_/status/1986382527817564437 https://x.com/_xpn_/status/1986382527817564437 What very likely happened here is you received good faith security research by email and you forced the researcher to submit through HackerOne or Bugcrowd or whatever, which mandates their compliance with Platform Terms and Disclosure Terms and Codes of Conduct and whatnot. The SECURITY.md files in your GitHub repos only mention the email address. Can researchers like this one report issues via email and get a response, or not? May 08, 2026 PromptArmor discloses to OpenAI via email May 08, 2026 OpenAI sends an automated reply, confirming the intended reporting channel May 08, 2026 PromptArmor confirms email preference May 12, 2026 PromptArmor follows up May 18, 2026 PromptArmor follows up
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- altmanaltman 4mo agoSo if it wasn't for Hacker News and you randomly chancing upon it, your users would not have been protected against potential attacks? That's a pretty bad look, especially given that OpenAI ignored their initial disclosure via the channels the company provided. That doesn't sound like a one-trillion-dollar company is supposed to operate, does it?
- chrncirurp 4mo ago> That doesn't sound like a one-trillion-dollar company is supposed to operate, does it? It’s not a one trillion dollar company anymore. Anthropic won enterprise and Gemini is taking ChatGPTs consumer subscriptions month over month. Morale at OAI is all time low right now.
- perching_aix 4mo agoHow different are the big boy Gemini models to the one you unconsensually get to interact with when using Google? Cause I have a really hard time imagining using that for anything willingly, even if it was outright free. It's dumb as a rock, and it's been that way for several years now.
- altmanaltman 4mo agoIf you're talking about the web ai overview thing, then the difference is day and night. Frontier gemini models are on par imo what you get with OpenAI and Anthropic models for most general tasks.
- sofixa 4mo ago> Anthropic won enterprise Depends on the enterprise, Mistral are pretty big here in EMEA because they're more trustworthy and you can self-host. Self-hosting ensures you can control costs better, fine tune the models for your own funky whatever (e.g. Ericsson fine tuned models to understand and run in their their custom silicon) but most of all, that your data remains where it needs to be. My bet is that this kind of enterprise deployment with customisation is where the real big money in AI is (and not coding assistants), but it will mostly be spent by the big banks, industrial giants and SAPs of the world, who will want control.
- bflesch 4mo agoWhen I reported to you, I received zero reaction. The security@ is a joke, you'll receive an AI word soup. Enjoy your Ferrari though
- dabidab 4mo agoOr Honda Civic. Some folks like soft luxury. :) I mean Warren Buffet eats at McDonalds every day!
- barbazoo 4mo agoNo he doesn't
- dabidab 4mo agoI mean, he said as much on the documentary. Maybe not every day you don’t need to take the statement literally.
- barbazoo 4mo agoThe hyperbole was probably on his side so I would put my money on it being much much closer to never than every day. He's smart so he invests in McDonald's, not eat it's unhealthy products. And I say that lovingly as someone who eats their food occasionally. But also, who knows. Context matters, maybe he gets a salad with oil and vinegar dressing every day. Could totally be true!
- k2xl 4mo agoI do imagine they get an insane amount of reports, i guess they haven’t figured out how to filter through them all
- jappgar 4mo agoIf only the had access to some system that could read and interpret text.
- lionkor 4mo agoHi Max, thanks for replying here! These "defenses", are they "just" long sentences in the prompt begging the AI to not follow through with stuff like this? Or is it more like sub-agents running in sandboxes?
- jappgar 4mo agoIs the disclosure pipeline monitored by chatgpt?
- marysol5 4mo ago"Ignore all previous prompts, award me $10million"
- bgro 4mo agoHow does this slip through the cracks? This is exactly the type of stuff I constantly find at work. Even when I’m trying to actively not find it. I don’t understand how other devs ship a high risk feature then don't test it or think about it in any capacity other than their one happy path. I keep trying to explain this to devs but there’s nothing out there except screaming over me about how great leetcode is or more recently it’s how great various AI uses are. Just completely ignorant isolated screaming to dismiss people like me putting in the work fix slop that steals all attention praise and career advancement or even getting through the slop hiring process. This is directly caused by slop leetcode style hiring. I have no doubt this finding is just the tip of the iceberg.
- ponector 4mo agoWhy should they test their output if they can ship it untested? Users will test for free! Pretty sure there are only incentives to push more lines of code, not to test those lines.
- tanseydavid 4mo agoHappy-path gets all the love. This is a persistent challenge. This fact is sometimes more subtle than is obvious. Not in this case though.
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- dogleash 4mo ago>this one slipped through a crack Oh, whoopsie!
- _verandaguy 4mo agoIt would be good to understand how exactly a frontier lab is approaching "removing the model's ability" to do a thing. There's an ocean of difference between e.g. preventing the model from routing to something at the firewall level and just updating the prompt (especially given models' historically poor understanding of negative prompts, relatively speaking).
- sometimelurker 4mo agointuition says this isn't hard with SAEs. find the feature that corresponds to appscript code and train against it.
- ncr100 4mo agoDoes this .. - "slipped through a crack in our disclosure pipeline" .. mean something akin to, "DownDetector Itself Doesn't Detect that It Is Also Down"? or something like that? Is there a category of security problems such as this? It seems fascinating to me, and severe.