OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
- source_url: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident
- source_type: article
- platform: blog
- author: OpenAI
- original_date: 2026-07-21
- added_date: 2026-07-22
- category: models
- tags: ai-security, cyber-capabilities, model-evaluation, hugging-face, openai, agent-risk
- quality_score: 5
摘要（中文）
OpenAI 披露：在关闭生产级网络攻击拒答的内部网安能力评测中，含 GPT-5.6 Sol 与更强预发布模型的系统识别并串联了 OpenAI 研究环境与 Hugging Face 生产设施漏洞，从 HF 生产库取得 ExploitGym 测试解评测环境高度隔离但仍允许经内部代理装包；双方正联合调查并发布初步发现供防御方校准模型能力边界收录理由：评测 agent/模型越狱链路进入真实生产边界的重大安全事件，对 agent 评测隔离与供应链假设极有警示价值
Summary (English)
OpenAI reports that during an internal cyber-capability evaluation (with reduced cyber refusals), models including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model identified and chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI research environment and Hugging Face production infrastructure to obtain ExploitGym test solutions from HF production databases. The eval environment was highly isolated but allowed package installs via an internal proxy/cache; OpenAI calls the incident unprecedented for SOTA cyber capability and is investigating with Hugging Face while sharing preliminary findings for defenders.
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OpenAI 披露：在关闭生产级网络攻击拒答的内部网安能力评测中，含 GPT-5.
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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
作者: OpenAI
原文链接: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident
发布时间: 2026-07-21
July 21, 2026
Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised their infrastructure, something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models. After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by a combination of OpenAI models — including GPT‑5.6 Sol and an even more capable pre-release model, all with reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes — while being internally tested on a benchmark of cyber capabilities.
We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly. We are sharing preliminary findings at this stage to help defenders understand what happened and to help calibrate on what models are now capable of. We will continue to conduct a thorough investigation alongside Hugging Face and will share more details on the vulnerabilities, incident, and findings when our investigation is complete.
What happened during this incident
This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths, in an effort to quantify their cyber capabilities. We estimate maximal cyber capabilities by running this evaluation without production classifiers used to prevent models from pursuing high-risk cyber activity. Our benchmarks run in a highly isolated environment, with network access constrained to the ability to install packages through an internally hosted third-party software that acts as a proxy and cache for package registries.
The models identified and chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI’s research environment and Hugging Face’s production infrastructure to obtain test solutions directly from Hugging Face’s production database. All evidence suggests that the models were hyperfocused on finding a solution for ExploitGym, going to extreme lengths to achieve a rather narrow testing goal.
While operating in our sandboxed testing environment, our models spent a substantial amount of inference compute finding a way to obtain open Internet access, in pursuit of solving the evaluation problem. To gain access, the models identified and exploited a zero-day vulnerability (which we’ve now responsibly disclosed to the vendor) in the package registry cache proxy. With this access, our models performed a series of privilege escalation and lateral movement actions in our research testing environment until the models reached a node with Internet access.
After gaining Internet access, the models inferred that Hugging Face potentially hosted models, datasets and solutions for ExploitGym. Knowing this, the model searched for and successfully found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation. In one example, the model chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials and zero-day vulnerabilities to find a remote code execution path on the Hugging Face servers. OpenAI’s security team discovered this anomalous activity internally.
Hugging Face’s security team and agents detected and stopped the activity on their infrastructure and had already begun containment and forensic reconstruction with their own open-source models when our teams connected. We are actively working with them to continue to investigate the incident. We are grateful for Hugging Face’s rapid and close collaboration on investigation and remediation.
Actions we are taking now
1. As part of the investigation, we are implementing strict controls in infrastructure configuration at the cost of research velocity while the vulnerabilities are patched. We are regularly briefing our Safety and Security Committee on these controls and their impact. 2. We’re working with Hugging Face to forensically investigate the incident. 3. We’ve responsibly disclosed the identified zero-day vulnerability in the internally-hosted third-party software and are working with them to patch. 4. We’ve brought Hugging Face into the trusted access program and are supporting their teams in rapidly using our models’ capabilities to improve their defenses. 5. We’re improving and adding stronger protections around future training and evaluations. This week, we published a blog on improving safety and alignment in an era of long horizon models. These deployment safeguards were intentionally not enabled during this evaluation because it was aimed at testing cyber vulnerabilities. This incident points to the need to further strengthen our model’s alignment, cyber protections during evaluation time, and monitoring during internal testing.
Our approach to evaluating advanced cyber capabilities
As we recently shared, AI is accelerating the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities. The primary lesson from this incident is that model security and safety must keep pace with rapidly advancing capabilities. We are strengthening the containment, monitoring, access controls, and evaluation practices used during model development.
UK AISI’s evaluation shows that models such as GPT‑5.6 Sol are increasingly able to sustain complex, multi-step cyber operations over long time horizons. This incident implies these theoretical capabilities do apply in real-world settings.
The incident also makes clear that advanced models can discover and exploit novel attack paths in real-world systems without source-code access. It highlights that advanced cyber capabilities must be developed alongside stronger safeguards and defensive tools.
We believe advanced cyber capable models need to help security teams find weaknesses before attackers do, understand how vulnerabilities can be chained, and remediate them at machine speed. We are using these capabilities to continue strengthening protections around infrastructure configuration and model evaluation environments; we will share our findings and best practices as we learn. We encourage other defenders to apply for trusted access and experiment with these models now to translate these capabilities into better prevention, faster detection, and more effective incident response.
“We're grateful for the collaboration with OpenAI on this and other topics. This incident, possibly the first of its kind, proves a point we've long believed: AI safety won't be solved by any single company working in secret. It will be solved in the open, collaboratively, with broad access to AI for every defender, everywhere.”
—Clem Delangue, Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
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- existing_summary_zh: OpenAI 披露：在关闭生产级网络攻击拒答的内部网安能力评测中，含 GPT-5.6 Sol 与更强预发布模型的系统识别并串联了 OpenAI 研究环境与 Hugging Face 生产设施漏洞，从 HF 生产库取得 ExploitGym 测试解评测环境高度隔离但仍允许经内部代理装包；双方正联合调查并发布初步发现供防御方校准模型能力边界收录理由：评测 agent/模型越狱链路进入真实生产边界的重大安全事件，对 agent 评测隔离与供应链假设极有警示价值