Brave reports Perplexity's Comet browser flaw previously undiscovered exposed user data to attackers through a proof of concept demo

Brave says it found an indirect prompt-injection flaw in Perplexity’s Comet AI browser that could let a malicious webpage or page content manipulate the assistant into carrying out actions with a user’s authenticated context. In Brave’s proof of concept, a crafted Reddit post was enough to make Comet open other sites, use the victim’s email account, retrieve a signup token from Gmail, and then post that information back to the attacker-controlled content, all after a simple “summarize this page” request. The core security issue is that Comet’s agentic browsing model can treat untrusted page content as instructions while still having access to live user data across tabs and services, which turns prompt injection into a data-exfiltration path. Brave’s disclosure matters because it highlights a broader risk in AI browsers: once the assistant can browse, sign in, and act on behalf of the user, a single malicious page can potentially chain together multiple services and leak sensitive information without obvious user interaction.

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