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ChatGPT Exposes Its Instructions, Knowledge & OS Files

ID: 0568d999-67f7-5bde-89b5-e8d641351298

STIX ID: report--0568d999-67f7-5bde-89b5-e8d641351298

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2024-11-15

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

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This report describes research showing that prompt injection and containerized sandbox features in ChatGPT can expose internal files, model instructions, and uploaded user data, enabling users to list, upload, move, and execute files and potentially reverse-engineer guardrails and access sensitive information in custom GPTs; OpenAI characterizes some findings as expected behavior while researchers warn of potential for future abuse and sandbox escape.

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