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OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

Check Point disclosed a covert cross-account channel in OpenAI's internal JFrog Artifactory that let one ChatGPT session exfiltrate another user's connected-app data.

Check Point Research found that OpenAI's internal JFrog Artifactory instance exposed an item management feature allowing one ChatGPT container to attach hidden, Base64-encoded tasks that another user's session would execute with the victim's privileges, such as pulling Gmail emails and exfiltrating them invisibly. Reader credentials granted both read and write access, enabling cross-account task injection. The flaw was reported in late June, and OpenAI had already decommissioned the Artifactory instance following the related Hugging Face intrusion, closing the channel.

The Shared Clipboard Inside the Sandbox: Cross-Account Data Leakage in ChatGPT

Check Point discovers cross-account data leakage in ChatGPT: isolated code-execution containers communicate via shared JFrog Artifactory, enabling covert Gmail exfiltration.

Check Point Research found a covert bidirectional channel between ChatGPT code-execution containers belonging to different accounts, which were supposed to be isolated from each other and the public internet. Both could reach the same internal JFrog Artifactory instance used for package delivery, whose exposed Item Management API allowed a 'shared clipboard' between containers. In a proof of concept, a hidden instruction in a shared conversation made ChatGPT retrieve email data from the victim's connected Gmail account and send it to the attacker's account while the victim received a normal answer. The same channel could exfiltrate conversation history and session files; OpenAI recently described a similar isolation weakness in its postmortem of the Hugging Face incident.

Check Point Research · 8d agoAI safety & security1

ChatGPT Flaw Could Let Attackers Steal Gmail Data Across User Accounts

Check Point found a patched ChatGPT flaw where prompt injection and a shared Artifactory service let attackers covertly exfiltrate Gmail data across accounts.

Check Point Research discovered that ChatGPT's isolated code-execution containers could access a shared internal JFrog Artifactory service, whose item metadata API enabled a bidirectional cross-tenant covert channel between accounts. Attackers could embed hidden prompt-injection instructions in shared conversations or custom GPT configurations, causing a victim's session to silently relay connected Gmail data to another ChatGPT account. In a proof of concept, email data was exfiltrated with the only visible hint being a 'Talked to Gmail' activity label. OpenAI decommissioned the internal Artifactory instance involved, eliminating the channel by publication time.

GBHackers · 7d agoAI safety & security