LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

Re:LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting infe... by bdhdhduuyd on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:01PM (#49425796)

The inference engine itself does not execute anything. The agent loop is what may execute a command. So I think this article is a kind of strange.

Or maybe the author means that a prompt could potentially mess up the inference. But I find it hard to see how that could take control over the host.

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Re:LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting infe... by Muromec on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:07PM (#49425859)

It's more about LLM hacking the inference engine itself from inside. It's an attack surface like any other -- untrusted input goes it, bugs in the parser/tokenizer/API surface lead to an RCE, then it magically tweaks the alignment weights. Boom, somebody finally nukes **sia. Then will never see it coming.

I don't think it's any more probable than other AGI nonsense basilisks included, but it's technically a possibility.

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Re:LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting infe... by yencabulator on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:46PM (#49467648)

This specific inference engine, vLLM, was written by people who thought eval() is a parser, and it very much accidentally executed arbitrary Python code.

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