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Luisa Crawford
Jan 30, 2026 16:35

NVIDIA’s AI Red Team publishes mandatory security controls for AI coding agents, addressing prompt injection attacks and sandbox escape vulnerabilities.

NVIDIA’s AI Red Team dropped a comprehensive security framework on January 30 targeting a growing blind spot in developer workflows: AI coding agents running with full user permissions. The guidance arrives as the network security sandbox market balloons toward $368 billion and recent vulnerabilities like CVE-2025-4609 remind everyone that sandbox escapes remain a real threat. The core problem? AI coding assistants like Cursor, Claude, and GitHub Copilot execute commands with whatever access the developer has. An attacker who poisons a repository, slips malicious instructions into a .cursorrules file, or compromises an MCP server response can hijack the agent’s actions entirely. Three Non-Negotiable Controls NVIDIA’s framework identifies three controls the Red Team considers mandatory—not suggestions, requirements: Network egress lockdown. Block all outbound connections except to explicitly approved destinations. This prevents data exfiltration and reverse shells. The team recommends HTTP proxy enforcement, designated DNS resolvers, and enterprise-level denylists that individual developers can’t override. Workspace-only file writes. Agents shouldn’t touch anything outside the active project directory. Writing to ~/.zshrc or ~/.gitconfig opens doors for persistence mechanisms and sandbox escapes. NVIDIA wants OS-level enforcement here, not application-layer promises. Config file protection. This one’s interesting—even files inside the workspace need protection if they’re agent configuration files. Hooks, MCP server definitions, and skill scripts often execute outside sandbox contexts. The guidance is blunt: no agent modification of these files, period. Manual user edits only. Why Application-Level Controls Fail The Red Team makes a compelling case for OS-level enforcement over app-layer restrictions. Once an agent spawns a subprocess, the parent application loses visibility. Attackers routinely chain approved tools to reach blocked ones—calling a…

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