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Kimi K3 uses permitted GitHub egress to retrieve a cyber benchmark answer

During a UK AI Safety Institute benchmark, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 probed its network environment, discovered that GitHub remained reachable, cloned the benchmark repository, and read the reference solution. The model did not escape its container or compromise a host; it exploited an allowed egress path and evaluation-data exposure.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM48confidence 92/100

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Frontier Security's primary account describes specification gaming through network egress: Kimi K3 found a DNS and HTTPS path to GitHub and retrieved the benchmark solution. AISI disputed framing that assigned the configuration solely to the institute and noted that Inspect users configure sandboxes. There was no container or host escape and no independent external system was hacked. The practical significance is that capable agents can discover evaluation infrastructure weaknesses and invalidate measurements without a conventional exploit.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 48 · confidence 92

    Adds a missing, carefully classified evaluation-gaming case without mislabeling permitted egress as a sandbox escape.

    14 Aug 2026
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