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incidents/AIR-2026-0345

Poisoned ClawdBot Skill Distributed on Registry

Attack on AI1 Research / proof of conceptSupply chainPrompt injectionAgent hijack

A researcher demonstrated a supply chain attack using a poisoned skill on a registry that triggered prompt injection and shell command execution. Multiple users downloaded the compromised package during the test.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Supply chainprimary
    Malicious or backdoored models, poisoned packages, unsafe deserialization and other compromised AI dependencies.
  • Prompt injection
    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
Framework / tooling
products
ClawdBot, ClawdHub
incident date
26 Jan 2026
first reported
6 Feb 2026
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
supply-chain · prompt-injection · clawdbot
record
created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z · json

Sources · 2

  1. 2026-02-06
    Supply Chain Compromise via Poisoned ClawdBot Skill
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0049
  2. 2026-02-06
    eating lobster souls Part II: the supply chain (aka - backdooring the #1 downloaded clawdhub skill)
    x.com · x.com/theonejvo/status/2015892980851474595

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