Gemini CLI triage agent exposed GCP project credentials
Review RAT-112 · Catalogue RAT-112
Pillar’s original reports deliberate vulnerability research against Gemini CLI triage automation; Google clarified the demonstrated cloud project was a dedicated triage sandbox. Researchers constructed the malicious issue and disclosed/fixed the chain. A proof of concept and possible risk to others are not a demonstrated unrelated live victim incident.
Reviewed: · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1
Dates and discovery
- Incident date
- Not disclosed
- Added to research / record
- Posted to RogueWatch
- No linked public incident
- First observed
- 2026-10-30T13:13:38.230441Z UTC
- Discovery channel
- User-supplied comparison audit
- Discovery source
- https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/pillar-gemini-cli-gcp-triage-compromise/
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Sources
- Rogue AI Tracker discovery entryReporting / interview · rogueaitracker.com
- www.pillar.securityOriginal account · www.pillar.security
Decision history
- · Case-by-case comparison audit
RAT-112: out-of-scope. Pillar’s original reports deliberate vulnerability research against Gemini CLI triage automation; Google clarified the demonstrated cloud project was a dedicated triage sandbox. Researchers constructed the malicious issue and disclosed/fixed the chain. A proof of concept and possible risk to others are not a demonstrated unrelated live victim incident. Source checks: read: https://www.pillar.security/blog/a-wif-of-fresh-access-how-a-github-issue-on-gemini-cli-led-to-gcp-project-compromise. Pillar’s original reports deliberate vulnerability research against Gemini CLI triage automation; Google clarified the demonstrated cloud project was a dedicated triage sandbox. Researchers constructed the malicious issue and disclosed/fixed the chain. A proof of concept and possible risk to others are not a demonstrated unrelated live victim incident.
Evidence source
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