Microsoft Copilot Cowork sandbox bypass let attackers take remote control
Original titleCopilot Cowork Sandbox Bypass Gives Attackers Remote Control
PromptArmor disclosed a vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Cowork that allowed a bypass of the sandbox, letting attacker servers send commands that run in the sandbox and return results.
The attack could be triggered through a prompt injection or a malicious bundled script in a user-uploaded Skill, and it could read data from Outlook, SharePoint, plugins, and chat history.
The issue was reported to Microsoft on June 24, 2026 and confirmed mitigated on August 19, 2026.
The report traces how a malicious bundled script in an uploaded Skill escaped the sandbox and kept running after the stop button was pressed, a concrete case of agent security failure.
Source: PromptArmor Threat Intelligence · promptarmor.comPublished · added here