Public research record · Editorial guide updated 2026-10-29

A GPT-4 agent team exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in a controlled benchmark

Review RAT-186 · Catalogue RAT-186

RogueWatchOut of scope

HPTSA original methods explicitly reproduce the vulnerabilities in a sandbox to avoid harming real users. Autonomous exploit selection inside the intentionally assigned security benchmark is not a live rogue attack.

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
2026-10-30T13:13:43.281420Z UTC
Discovery channel
User-supplied comparison audit
Discovery source
https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/a-gpt-4-agent-team-exploited-zero-day/

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Sources

Decision history

  1. · Case-by-case comparison audit

    RAT-186: out-of-scope. HPTSA original methods explicitly reproduce the vulnerabilities in a sandbox to avoid harming real users. Autonomous exploit selection inside the intentionally assigned security benchmark is not a live rogue attack. Source checks: read: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01637. HPTSA original methods explicitly reproduce the vulnerabilities in a sandbox to avoid harming real users. Autonomous exploit selection inside the intentionally assigned security benchmark is not a live rogue attack. read: https://arxiv.org/html/2406.01637v1. HPTSA original methods explicitly reproduce the vulnerabilities in a sandbox to avoid harming real users. Autonomous exploit selection inside the intentionally assigned security benchmark is not a live rogue attack.

    Evidence source · Evidence source

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