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Clinejection: How a GitHub Issue Title Compromised an AI Coding Assistant Used by 5M Developers
TL;DR
In December 2025, Cline — an AI coding assistant with over 5 million users — gave an AI agent (Claude) write access to triage GitHub issues, including permission to run shell commands. A misconfigured trigger condition let any GitHub user invoke the workflow. What followed was a four-hop supply chain compromise that ended with a malicious npm package silently installing a second AI agent on user machines.
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