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High · 8.9 CVE-2026-33654 EUVD-2026-16777

Zero-Click Indirect Prompt Injection and Authentication Bypass via Email Polling

Published Mar 27, 2026 · Updated Mar 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

nanobot is a personal AI assistant. Prior to version 0.1.6, an indirect prompt injection vulnerability exists in the email channel processing module (`nanobot/channels/email.py`), allowing a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary LLM instructions (and subsequently, system tools) without any interaction from the bot owner. By sending an email containing malicious prompts to the bot's monitored email address, the bot automatically polls, ingests, and processes the email content as highly trusted input, fully bypassing channel isolation and resulting in a stealthy, zero-click attack. Version 0.1.6 patches the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HKUDS nanobot < 0.1.4.post6 —

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