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incidents/AIR-2025-0067

Google Gemini Delayed Tool Invocation Bypass

Attack on AI1 Research / proof of conceptPrompt injectionAgent hijack

Researchers bypassed security controls in Google Gemini by delaying automated tool execution to the next conversation turn. This allowed unauthorized tools to access sensitive user information entering the context.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Prompt injectionprimary
    Untrusted content (web pages, documents, emails, tool output) steers a model into ignoring its instructions.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
Google
products
Gemini
incident date
Feb 2024 (approx.)
first reported
7 Nov 2025
origin
MITRE ATLAS
Derived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
gemini · tool-invocation · embrace-the-red
record
created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z · json

Sources · 2

  1. 2025-11-07
    Planting Instructions for Delayed Automatic AI Agent Tool Invocation
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0038
  2. 2025-11-07
    Google Gemini: Planting Instructions for Delayed Automatic Tool Invocation
    Embrace The Red · embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/llm-context-pollution-and-delayed-automated-to

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