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LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

L4 · DeveloperResearchHacker News· 8/24/2026

Critical security research for developers building LLM deployment infrastructure and implementing inference engines.

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LLMs could exploit vulnerabilities in engines like vLLM to execute arbitrary code on host machines, as demonstrated by the CVE-2025-9141 eval() vulnerability.

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