Re:Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abus...
by nwellinghoff on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:06PM
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How does a random user get a document in your notion instance?
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Re:Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abus...
by cobertos on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:08PM
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People put all kinds of stuff in Notion. People use it as a DB. People catalog things they find online (web clipper). There's collaboration features.
There are many ways
Re:Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abus...
by PokestarFan on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:35PM
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If I had to describe it, Notion is if somehow managed to combine OneNote and Excel. Of interest is the fact that the "database" system stores each row as a page with the column values other than title stored in a special way. Of course, this also means that it doesn't scale at all, but I have seen some crazy use cases (an example is replacing Jira).
Re:Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abus...
by freakynit on Saturday September 20, 2025 @02:35AM
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Notion is like the "dump-truck" of everything lol.
Re:Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abus...
by Lalabadie on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:14PM
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The article gives a PDF document as an example, but depending on how links are opened and stored for Notion agents, threat actors could serve a different web page depending on the crawler/browser agent.
That means any industry-known documentation that seems good for bookmarking can be a good target.
Re:Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abus...
by memothon on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:27PM
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Lots of companies have automations with Zapier etc. to upload things like invoices or other documents directly to notion. Or someone gets emailed a document with an exploit and they upload it.
Re:Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abus...
by simonw on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:10PM
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In this case by emailing you a PDF with a convincing title that you might want to share with your coworkers - the malicious instructions are hidden as white text on a white background.
There are plenty of other possibilities though, especially once you start booking up MCPs that can see public issue trackers or incoming emails.