{"id":233910,"date":"2026-04-21T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/google-patches-antigravity-ide-flaw-enabling-prompt-injection-code-execution\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:40:06","slug":"google-patches-antigravity-ide-flaw-enabling-prompt-injection-code-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/google-patches-antigravity-ide-flaw-enabling-prompt-injection-code-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Patches Antigravity IDE Flaw Enabling Prompt Injection Code Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/google-patches-antigravity-ide-flaw.html\">Google Patches Antigravity IDE Flaw Enabling Prompt Injection Code Execution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/google-patches-antigravity-ide-flaw.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/google-patches-antigravity-ide-flaw.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 06:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\">\ue804<span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<span class=\"author\">Apr 21, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Vulnerability \/ Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Google&#8217;s agentic integrated development environment (IDE), Antigravity, that could be exploited to achieve code execution.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw, since patched, combines Antigravity&#8217;s permitted file-creation capabilities with an insufficient input sanitization in Antigravity&#8217;s native file-searching tool, find_by_name, to bypass the program&#8217;s Strict Mode, a restrictive security configuration that limits network access, prevents out-of-workspace writes, and ensures all commands are being run within a sandbox context.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By injecting the -X (exec-batch) flag through the Pattern parameter [in the find_by_name tool], an attacker can force fd to execute arbitrary binaries against workspace files,&#8221; Pillar Security researcher Dan Lisichkin said in an analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Combined with Antigravity&#8217;s ability to create files as a permitted action, this enables a full attack chain: stage a malicious script, then trigger it through a seemingly legitimate search, all without additional user interaction once the prompt injection lands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attack takes advantage of the fact that the find_by_name tool call is executed before any of the constraints associated with Strict Mode are enforced and is instead interpreted as a native tool invocation, leading to arbitrary code execution. While the Pattern parameter is designed to accept a filename search pattern to trigger a file and directory search using fd through find_by_name, it&#8217;s undermined by a lack of strict validation, passing the input directly to the underlying fd command.<\/p>\n<p>An attacker could, therefore, leverage this behavior to stage a malicious file and inject malicious commands into the Pattern parameter to trigger the execution of the payload.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The critical flag here is -X (exec-batch). When passed to fd, this flag executes a specified binary against each matched file,&#8221; Pillar explained. &#8220;By crafting a Pattern&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/google-patches-antigravity-ide-flaw.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Patches Antigravity IDE Flaw Enabling Prompt Injection Code Execution https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/google-patches-antigravity-ide-flaw.html Publish Date: 2026-04-21 06:22:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhsCaDWCQOL4W8DvgT0eI2Q12HA0ThHQO8TZ-X02vqHH4lZfIeUUZ9yeQAHESn6Oe5AoqLEpTuRL9Gco-SPynh5K0fW8D0KFLEvnHnd48MHKL5OUFnw4lOPsAqBg2N8zlCEnoJMM7ZrtxyVuwhytN3SebEbluda4uN12VG2OVi6fV4SItz_57pdCGe7U0ai\/s1600\/ide.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,24,27],"class_list":["post-233910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233912,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233910\/revisions\/233912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}