Oh, For Fucking Christ’s Sake: Yet *Another* AI Tool Screwed Up

Right, listen up. Some coding assistant tool – I won’t bother with the name because they all suck eventually – has a Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw. Yeah, you heard me. RCE. Meaning some script kiddie can probably just paste in malicious code and own your system. Apparently, it’s down to how it handles user-supplied input when generating code. Shocking, I know.

The real kicker? This isn’t just *your* system at risk. It’s a supply chain thing. If developers are using this crap and pushing the generated code into their projects… well, you get the picture. It spreads like herpes at a tech conference. They found it in a GitHub Action, which means anyone using that is potentially hosed.

They’ve patched it, *now*, but honestly? Who knows how long this has been floating around. And let’s be real, the fix is probably just slapping a band-aid on a gaping wound. Expect more of these “surprises” as everyone rushes to shove AI into everything without thinking.

So yeah, update your dependencies if you’re using this garbage. And maybe, *just maybe*, start questioning whether letting an algorithm write your code is the smartest idea ever. But probably not. People never learn.

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/rce-flaw-ai-coding-tool-supply-chain-risk

Related Anecdote: Back in ’98, some idiot thought it was a good idea to let a script auto-generate firewall rules. One typo later, and the entire network was open to Telnet. *Telnet*. I spent three days cleaning up that mess while he “investigated.” AI is just a prettier version of that same level of incompetence. Don’t trust it.

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