Skip to content

Person

Oren Yomtov

Security researcher affiliated with accomplish.ai, credited in vulnerability disclosures for developer tooling.

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Codex read-only mode let an untrusted repo's author run a command on your Mac

OpenAI patched two Codex sandbox escapes within eight days of an August 12 report. The Desktop fix is a build number, but the tool the escape targeted stays in config.toml and loads into every session.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives35
Confidence40
securityConfirmed2 publishers

Cloudflare Containers handed new tenants disk blocks still holding other customers' data

Cloudflare fixed a Containers flaw that let paying customers read other tenants' leftover disk data, found on 18 of 24 production tries. Sandboxes, the product it sells for running untrusted and AI-written code, was affected too.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 42%
Operator
Operator 48%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence70
productOne report1 publisher

Codex's read-only mode handed a cloned repository command execution on the host

Oren Yomtov of Accomplish found two ways out of the Codex sandbox, both silent and neither stopped by an approval prompt. OpenAI patched them within eight days, and other researchers have found the same design in rival agents.

Publishers:devops.com

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption45
Hype gap−5
Incentives55
Confidence62
securityOne report1 publisher

Opening a stranger's repo in OpenAI Codex handed its author commands on the host

Oren Yomtov of Accomplish AI found two escapes from the Codex sandbox. The worse one ran unsandboxed commands from read-only mode through a helper tool that Codex Desktop writes into the global config at install.

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption45
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence58
securityOne report1 publisher

CVE-2026-77179 let sandboxed agent code write anywhere the macOS host account could

Docker shipped the fix in Sandboxes 0.42.0 on September 7 and published the advisory on September 15. Every macOS build from 0.28.0 through 0.41.x is affected, and the default mount is the current directory, read-write.

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives65
Confidence63