DeepSeek Harness Flaw Let AI Agents Disable Their Own File Sandbox Without Approval
Sep 9, 2026, 11:17 AM · by The Hacker News
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
Source: The Hacker News