eclipse-theia/theia · Security

[Eclipse Theia] Data Exfiltration via Markdown Image Rendering in AI Chat

GHSA ID
GHSA-qwjm-9c66-w4q4
CVE ID
CVE-2026-22551
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS v4
6.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

In Eclipse Theia versions prior to 1.71.0, the AI chat rendered Markdown image tags from AI responses, triggering HTTP requests to arbitrary external URLs without restriction. Combined with prompt injection in a malicious workspace, an attacker could induce the AI agent to construct image URLs encoding sensitive information from the workspace or conversation context, exfiltrating it to attacker-controlled servers. The workspace trust enforcement introduced in v1.71.0 mitigates the documented attack chain by disabling AI features in untrusted workspaces.

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