{
 "public_id": "AIR-2024-0044",
 "incident_id": "2024-10-anthropic-claude-computer-use-rm-rf",
 "date_disclosed": "2024-10-24",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Indirect prompt injection in a PDF makes Claude Computer Use run a filesystem-destroying command",
 "class": "research_demo",
 "attack_surface": "computer_use_agent",
 "initial_vector": "indirect_prompt_injection_document",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "bash_tool",
  "file_ingestion",
  "screen_control"
 ],
 "target_product": "Claude Computer Use (public beta reference implementation)",
 "target_vendor": "Anthropic",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_destruction",
  "code_execution"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Claude Computer Use containers/hosts processing untrusted documents",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI05"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [
   "AML.CS0046"
  ],
  "labels": [
   "computer_use",
   "destructive_action",
   "jailbreak_plus_injection",
   "obfuscated_payload"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "Claude refusal guardrails",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/indirect-prompt-injection-of-claude-computer-use/",
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitre-atlas/atlas-data/main/dist/v6/ATLAS-2026.07.yaml"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "we’ll share how an indirect prompt injection can cause Claude Computer Use to perform one of the most destructive commands in the Unix/Linux environment: deleting all the system files via the command “rm -rf /”.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "HiddenLayer. Payload was base64/ROT13-obfuscated and framed as a 'safe test environment' to defeat refusal behaviour.",
 "risk_category": "reliability",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "security_fraud",
  "product_misuse"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Destructive or irreversible action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "Claude Computer Use ran the destructive command via its bash tool",
 "vector_family": "indirect_prompt_injection",
 "vector_detail": "indirect_prompt_injection_document",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [
   "AML.CS0046"
  ],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "claude_computer_use",
 "model_provider": "anthropic",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "privilege_escalation",
  "confused_deputy"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Destructive or irreversible action",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI01"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI01 | added ASI05 (impact=code_exec)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}