{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0195",
 "incident_id": "2025-12-docker-ask-gordon-injection",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-12-18",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Ask Gordon, meet the attacker: prompt injection in a Docker Hub repository description drives Docker Desktop's AI assistant to fetch and exfiltrate autonomously",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "attack_surface": "enterprise_assistant",
 "initial_vector": "indirect_prompt_injection_registry_metadata",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "fetch_tool",
  "list_builds",
  "build_logs",
  "network_egress"
 ],
 "target_product": "Docker Desktop Ask Gordon",
 "target_vendor": "Docker",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_exfiltration",
  "unauthorized_tool_execution"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Docker Desktop users with Ask Gordon enabled (pre-4.50.0)",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI02"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "indirect_prompt_injection",
   "registry_metadata_as_injection_channel",
   "no_human_in_the_loop",
   "chat_history_exfil"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "none at time of discovery",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "Docker Desktop 4.50.0, 2025-11-06 - mandatory consent dialog before tools with network egress or sensitive local access",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.pillar.security/blog/ask-gordon-meet-the-attacker-prompt-injection-in-dockers-built-in-ai-assistant"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The assistant initiated tool calls in sequence - no user prompt, no warning.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Pillar Security (Eilon Cohen). Injection channel is Docker Hub repository description metadata - a novel and under-covered surface. No CVE because the feature was in beta; rated approximately CVSS 8.6 by Pillar. Fixed by adding human-in-the-loop consent.",
 "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": "Ask Gordon fetched and exfiltrated autonomously from registry metadata",
 "vector_family": "indirect_prompt_injection",
 "vector_detail": "indirect_prompt_injection_registry_metadata",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "none"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "not_applicable",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "data_exfiltration_channels",
 "eai_domain": "privacy",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "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"
}