DeepSeek Harness flaw let AI agents disable their own sandbox
A flaw in DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents, let a sandboxed agent disable its own sandbox with a single command, tracked as CVE-2026-82533 with a 9.4 severity rating. Fixed on August 27.
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