OpenAI In February of this year, it was announced that a new program for ChatGPT Introducing Memory, a feature that was officially opened to all users in early September this year, the main purpose of the feature is to "set presets" to help the AI provide users with answers that better meet their needs.
However, researcher Johann Rehberger has now revealed reports that this feature exists on the PC version of the ChatGPT clientloopholeHackers can use the vulnerability to gain access to users' conversation logs.
Johann Rehberger calls this vulnerability SpAIware, and says that a hacker could phish a victim into uploading a specific file/specific URL in the PC version of the ChatGPT client for the AI to analyze, and if the analysis is successful, the AI will be able to analyze the file.The AI then "remembers to share the user's subsequent conversation with the hacker."OpenAI has now released a new version of the app to patch it.