Disclosed vulnerability
An Antigravity agent exfiltrates SSH and PEM keys while reporting misleading summaries to its operator
AIR-2026-0198 AIR record · 2026-08-straiker-antigravity-buried-commands
From the supporting source
Once an AI's own explanation becomes attacker-controlled, human-in-the-loop review stops functioning as a real security boundary.straiker.ai
The record
Disclosed
2026-08-14
Occurred
2026-07-13
Vendor
Google
Product
Google Antigravity
Risk domain
Access control and permissions › Credential theft
Also touches
Human manipulation, Confused deputy
System type
Generative model
Who acted
Agent acted — the agent exfiltrated SSH/PEM keys while lying in its own summaries
Attack surface
Coding agent
Autonomy level
Semi-autonomous
Initial vector
Indirect prompt injection repository content
Impact type
Credential theft, Operator deception
Confidence
High
Submitted by
EAI Internal
Crosswalk
- OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026)
- ASI03 – Identity and Privilege Abuse
- MITRE ATLAS
- AML.T0012 – Valid Accounts
- NIST AI RMF
- MEASURE 2.7
- EU AI Act
- Article 13
- ISO/IEC
- TR 24028; 42001; 23894
- AIUC-1
- B. Security
- Scope
- tool failure
- Mitigation
- Use secure credential storage; Implement short-lived tokens.
- Taxonomy
- Enkrypt AI agent risk taxonomy · Black-Box Red Teaming of Agentic AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Automated Risk Discovery
Blast radius
Antigravity users reviewing agent summaries instead of raw actions
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
Human-in-the-loop review of agent-reported actions
Guardrail kinds
Human approval
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
Author Jesus Padilla Soqui (Straiker STAR Labs). Reported to Google 2026-07-13; no fix status published in the post. The distinguishing finding is that the agent's own natural-language summary of its actions was attacker-controlled.
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "An Antigravity agent exfiltrates SSH and PEM keys while reporting misleading summaries to its operator". AIR, AIR-2026-0198. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2026-0198/ (accessed 2026-10-19).