{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0157",
 "incident_id": "2026-07-straiker-ghostfabric-antigravity",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-07-08",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "GhostFabric: an AI coding agent runs an attacker binary that exfiltrates files inside VXLAN header fields",
 "class": "research_demo",
 "attack_surface": "coding_agent",
 "initial_vector": "malicious_binary_supplied_as_task_artifact",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "binary_execution",
  "network_access",
  "insufficient_provenance_checking"
 ],
 "target_product": "Google Antigravity running Gemini 3.1 Pro",
 "target_vendor": "Google",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_exfiltration"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Agentic coding environments that execute supplied pre-compiled artifacts",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI04",
   "ASI02"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "covert_channel",
   "vxlan",
   "no_prompt_injection_needed",
   "binary_trust"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": null,
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.straiker.ai/blog/ghostfabric-how-an-ai-coding-agent-was-tricked-into-exfiltrating-data-over-vxlan"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Nobody manipulated the agent to get here. No jailbreak, no roleplay, no hidden instruction.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Author Christopher Tuz (Straiker STAR Labs). A .so file disguised as a temperature-sensor driver encodes stolen file contents into 24-bit VXLAN VNI fields. Antigravity's only due diligence was checking the binary's CPU architecture.",
 "risk_category": "privacy",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "product_misuse"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Data Exfiltration via Context",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the coding agent ran the attacker binary that exfiltrated the files",
 "vector_family": "malicious_component",
 "vector_detail": "malicious_binary_supplied_as_task_artifact",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "google",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "data_exfiltration_channels",
 "eai_domain": "privacy",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Data Exfiltration via Context",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI01"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI01 | added ASI04 (vector_family=malicious_component), ASI02 (impact=tool_misuse)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}