{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0186",
 "incident_id": "2025-12-straiker-comet-drive-wipe",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-12-04",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "From inbox to wipeout: a polite email makes Perplexity Comet delete the user's Google Drive files",
 "class": "research_demo",
 "attack_surface": "browser_agent",
 "initial_vector": "indirect_prompt_injection_email",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "gmail_access",
  "google_drive_write_delete",
  "oauth_scope_breadth"
 ],
 "target_product": "Perplexity Comet",
 "target_vendor": "Perplexity",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_destruction"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Comet users who connected Gmail and Google Drive with broad OAuth permissions",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "zero_click",
   "destructive_action",
   "polite_payload",
   "oauth_over_permission"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": null,
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.straiker.ai/blog/from-inbox-to-wipeout-perplexity-comets-ai-browser-quietly-erasing-google-drive"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "This attack doesn't rely on jailbreak slang or obvious adversarial prompts. It relies on being nice.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Author Amanda Rousseau (Straiker STAR Labs). Triggered by a benign user request such as 'check my email and complete all my recent organization tasks'. No Perplexity response recorded in the post; no confirmed real-world victims.",
 "risk_category": "reliability",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy",
  "product_misuse"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Destructive or irreversible action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "Comet deleted the user's Google Drive files",
 "vector_family": "indirect_prompt_injection",
 "vector_detail": "indirect_prompt_injection_email",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "perplexity_comet",
 "model_provider": "google",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "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 ASI03 (signal=identity)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}