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Workflow Security: How Cross-Step Injection Evades Detection

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A new attack vector exploits multi-step workflows where injection payloads propagate across phases, evading per-step checks. The article details a scenario where a Jira ticket description carries an attack through four phases to code execution. Four defense principles are proposed, including data sanitization boundaries and input/instruction separation.

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The article correctly identifies a real gap in AI workflow security, but the proposed XML-tag defense is fragile and easily bypassed by prompt injection techniques.
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