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Glossary: Application and Credential Attacks, and AI Risks

code execution

Also written: AI-driven code execution

When an attacker gets their own commands run on a system. With AI, this happens when the AI runs code it was steered into writing, when an application runs the AI's output, or when an untrusted model file runs code as it loads.

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