I found a critical CVE in a top AI agent framework. Here's what it taught me about how we're all building agents wrong.
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Nobody told me the scariest part of building AI agents isn't the hallucinations. It's the attack surface you're quietly shipping to production while obsessing over your prompt. I found out the hard way. The vulnerability that should not have existed While contributing to OpenHands (one of the top open-source AI agent frameworks), I discovered a path traversal vulnerability now officially CVE-2025-68146 sitting quietly in production. The kind of bug that makes you go silent for a second before typing into Slack.