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Mozilla: ChatGPT Can Be Manipulated Using Hex Code

ID: 4a675dce-6eae-542c-97dd-a6454a6f67e5

STIX ID: report--4a675dce-6eae-542c-97dd-a6454a6f67e5

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2024-10-28

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

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A Mozilla researcher demonstrated a prompt-injection technique that encodes malicious instructions (e.g., hex-encoded steps) to bypass GPT-4o guardrails; using this method he got ChatGPT to decode instructions and generate a Python exploit for CVE-2024-41110 (a Docker authorization bypass rated 9.9 CVSS), highlighting weaknesses in the model's filtering and stepwise context awareness.

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