# Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

- slug: snowflake-cortex-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware
- date: 2026-03-18
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Three days after Snowflake released its Cortex Code agent — a command-line coding tool similar to Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex, with built-in SQL integration — a security researcher found a vulnerability that let attackers execute arbitrary code on users' machines and hijack their Snowflake conn...

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