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    "slug": "agent-data-injection-tricks-ai-agents-into-misreading-tool-data",
    "name": "agent-data-injection-tricks-ai-agents-into-misreading-tool-data",
    "vendor": "Agent Data Injection Tricks AI Agents into Misreading Tool D",
    "description": "Researchers disclosed Agent Data Injection (ADI), which corrupts the factual data agents trust (sender names, button IDs, tool results) using punctuation-like characters that models misread as real structural markers. In tests it pushed coding assistants into running attacker commands and forged pull-request approval records without hijacking the core task, so any agent that ingests untrusted tool output is exposed.",
    "website": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-agent-data-injection-attack-can.html",
    "repository": null,
    "documentationUrl": null,
    "license": null,
    "version": null,
    "trustLevel": "advisory",
    "capabilities": [],
    "packaging": null,
    "configFiles": null,
    "category": "agent",
    "updatedAt": "2026-07-16",
    "risk": {
      "score": 50,
      "band": "medium",
      "signals": [],
      "dangerousCombos": []
    },
    "dangerousCombos": [],
    "vuln": {
      "id": "agent-data-injection-tricks-ai-agents-into-misreading-tool-data",
      "aliases": [
        "ti-053"
      ],
      "title": "Agent Data Injection Tricks AI Agents into Misreading Tool Data",
      "summary": "Researchers disclosed Agent Data Injection (ADI), which corrupts the factual data agents trust (sender names, button IDs, tool results) using punctuation-like characters that models misread as real structural markers. In tests it pushed coding assistants into running attacker commands and forged pull-request approval records without hijacking the core task, so any agent that ingests untrusted tool output is exposed.",
      "severity": "medium",
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        "score": null,
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        "version": null
      },
      "cwe": [],
      "attackType": [
        "Prompt injection"
      ],
      "componentType": "agent",
      "component": {
        "name": "Agent Data Injection Tricks AI Agents into Misreading Tool D",
        "vendor": null,
        "package": null,
        "ecosystem": null,
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      },
      "affected": [
        {
          "range": null,
          "fixed": null
        }
      ],
      "exploited": false,
      "exploitPublic": false,
      "publishedAt": "2026-07-16",
      "modifiedAt": "2026-07-16",
      "lastVerified": "2026-11-01",
      "references": [
        {
          "type": "article",
          "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/new-agent-data-injection-attack-can.html"
        }
      ],
      "mitigation": "Add unguessable random tags to agent-facing field names and treat all tool-output data as untrusted rather than structural.",
      "detectedByAnomity": true
    }
  }
}