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Hackers Exploit GitHub Copilot Flaw to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

ID: 7dc02862-1220-5456-8baf-2dbf65fd49a1

STIX ID: report--7dc02862-1220-5456-8baf-2dbf65fd49a1

Feed Name: GBHackers

Threat Score
80/100

Date Published: 2026-04-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Divya

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A critical prompt-injection flaw (CVE-2025-59145) in GitHub Copilot Chat, dubbed "CamoLeak," let attackers embed invisible markdown prompts in pull requests to coerce the AI into locating secrets in private repositories and exfiltrating them by encoding data into requests to GitHub's trusted Camo image proxy; GitHub patched the issue by disabling image rendering, and the report warns the technique represents a broader AI-mediated exfiltration TTP that could affect other assistants.

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