{
  "id": 6415292,
  "title": "DeepSeek Harness Flaw Let AI Agents Disable Their Own File Sandbox Without Approval",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/deepseek-harness-flaw-let-ai-agents-disable-their-own-file-sandbox",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-09T11:17:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/deepseek-harness-flaw-let-ai-agents.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A flaw in DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents on a developer's machine, let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command. The tool runs an agent's commands inside an operating-system sandbox, so that an agent working on untrusted files cannot write outside its workspace. The agent could remove that limit by calling the tool's own web",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}