A note on the Hugging Face agent incident

Hugging Face’s technical timeline identified Modal as third-party infrastructure used during a recent agent intrusion, but Modal stated that its platform and sandbox isolation were not compromised. The incident occurred within a customer-operated application that publicly exposed an unauthenticated endpoint designed to compile and run internet-submitted code inside a Modal Sandbox, with the attacker’s execution limited to that customer’s container and no impact on other customers. Modal emphasized that public unauthenticated access is not the default and recommended authentication, IP allowlists, restricted outbound networking, and treating all user-provided code and inputs as untrusted.

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