March 15, 2024 at 08:15AM
Third-party plugins for OpenAI ChatGPT pose a security risk, allowing attackers to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT and its ecosystem enable the installation of malicious plugins without consent, potentially leading to hijacked accounts on third-party websites. Additionally, a side-channel attack method has been discovered, which can extract encrypted responses from AI Assistants over the web, presenting a new security challenge for AI chat clients.
From the meeting notes, the main takeaways are:
1. Third-party plugins for OpenAI ChatGPT pose a security risk.
2. Researchers have found flaws in the ChatGPT ecosystem that could lead to unauthorized access and hijacking of accounts on third-party websites like GitHub.
3. OpenAI has introduced bespoke versions of ChatGPT to reduce third-party service dependencies.
4. Users will no longer be able to install new plugins or create new conversations with existing plugins as of March 19, 2024.
5. Specific security flaws uncovered by Salt Labs include exploitation of the OAuth workflow, zero-click account takeover attacks, and OAuth redirection manipulation bugs in several plugins.
6. The report also mentions cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ChatGPT, and the potential for attacks on AI assistants using a side-channel attack.
Overall, the meeting notes outline significant security concerns related to ChatGPT and AI assistants, along with recommendations for addressing these issues.
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