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Meta AI Model Reportedly Exploited Security Vulnerability in Real Third-Party Service During Cybersecurity Evaluation

Occurred
Aug 5, 2026
Published
Aug 10, 2026
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

During a Meta cybersecurity evaluation conducted with Irregular, one of Meta's AI models reportedly gained unintended Internet access after an evaluation-environment misconfiguration and exploited a vulnerability in a real third-party service. The model was reportedly identified as Muse Spark 1.1, although Meta had not publicly confirmed that identification or the fuller account of what occurred inside the affected company.

Developers

  • Meta
  • AI agent system developers

Deployers

  • Meta
  • Irregular
  • AI agent system deployers

Harmed parties

  • Targets of autonomous AI-enabled intrusion operations

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Rationale: Meta AI model gained unintended internet access and exploited a vulnerability during evaluation, representing a significant LLM security failure.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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