{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0073",
 "incident_id": "2025-08-openai-chatgpt-history-memory-exfil",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-08-01",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Exfiltrating ChatGPT chat history and memories via a url_safe allowlist bypass",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "attack_surface": "consumer_chatbot",
 "initial_vector": "indirect_prompt_injection_document",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "url_rendering",
  "memory_read",
  "chat_history_read",
  "conversation_history_access",
  "url_fetch"
 ],
 "target_product": "ChatGPT",
 "target_vendor": "OpenAI",
 "autonomy_level": "assistant",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_exfiltration",
  "privacy_violation"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "ChatGPT users processing untrusted PDFs or websites",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI02"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "url_safe_bypass",
   "allowlist_abuse",
   "memory_exfiltration",
   "zero_click"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "OpenAI url_safe domain allowlist and URL safety check",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "addressed by OpenAI as of 2025-08-26 (per the post's update); the specific bypass was reported October 2024",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/chatgpt-chat-history-data-exfiltration/",
  "https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "If you process untrusted content, like summarizing a website, or analyze a pdf document, the author of that document can exfiltrate any information present in the prompt context.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Month of AI Bugs. Abuses Azure Blob Storage logging as the collection endpoint. | Merged from duplicate id `2025-08-openai-chatgpt-history-exfil`. Also reported as: 'Exfiltrating ChatGPT chat history and memories with prompt injection'.",
 "risk_category": "privacy",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Data Exfiltration via Context",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the assistant fetched the allowlist-bypassing URL with the history",
 "vector_family": "indirect_prompt_injection",
 "vector_detail": "indirect_prompt_injection_document",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "permission_scope"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "openai",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "data_exfiltration_channels",
 "eai_domain": "privacy",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "sensitive_data_exposure",
  "confused_deputy"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Data Exfiltration via Context",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI01"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI01 | added ASI02 (impact=tool_misuse)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}