Adnan Khan / Cline
aidefend-sf0050
Clinejection: Issue Triage Agent to Release-Token Exposure
- Autonomous Agents
- System Compromise & RCE
- Credential & Identity Theft
A public issue title could make Cline's Claude triage workflow run shell commands; the researcher reproduced this first step in a mirror. Its shared Actions cache created a route to nightly-release secrets. Separately, Cline confirmed that a still-active npm token was used by a third party to publish cline@2.3.0 with an OpenClaw postinstall script, but the exact token-theft sequence was not forensically established.
Mapped threat techniques
AML.T0051.001LLM Prompt Injection: IndirectAML.T0053AI Agent Tool InvocationAML.T0010.001AI Software