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The adoption of AI coding tools introduces significant security risks, such as the generation of vulnerable code with OWASP Top 10 flaws, the inadvertent leakage of sensitive secrets and hardcoded credentials, and supply chain compromise via 'slopsquatting,' alongside specific vulnerabilities like 'GhostApproval' which allows remote code execution on developer machines.

A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-12957) in the Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code allowed attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution and cloud credential theft by automatically loading and executing malicious Model Context Protocol (MCP) server configurations from a `.amazonq/mcp.json` file in a repository without user consent, providing full access to a developer's environment and cloud credentials.