AI agent incident

NVIDIA NemoClaw exposed a local Ollama instance to any web page

Reported · 2 sources

What happened

Oasis Security disclosed a networking flaw in NVIDIA NemoClaw that let a malicious web page take unauthenticated control of a local Ollama instance and plant hidden instructions that persisted in the model.

Why it matters

Local model servers are often left unauthenticated because they are assumed to be unreachable, and this one was reachable from an ordinary browser tab.

Sources

  1. The Hacker News A Malicious Webpage Could Poison Your Local AI Model Behind NVIDIA NemoClaw
  2. Dark Reading Finding Nemo(Claw): Networking Issue Allows for LLM Poisoning in OpenClaw

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“NVIDIA NemoClaw exposed a local Ollama instance to any web page.” The Permission Layer AI Agent Incident Database, https://thepermissionlayer.com/incidents/nemoclaw-ollama-exposure/. Database updated October 22, 2026.

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