Flagged for high-risk cyber activity when updating Codex config

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Feb 18, 2026 by moomooskycow Closed Feb 20, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

0.104.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.3-codex

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

WezTerm

What issue are you seeing?

⚠ Your account was flagged for potentially high-risk cyber activity and this request was
routed to gpt-5.2 as a fallback. To regain access to gpt-5.3-codex, apply for trusted
access: https://chatgpt.com/cyber or learn more: https://developers.openai.com/codex/
concepts/cyber-safety

What steps can reproduce the bug?

❯ cx
╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ >_ OpenAI Codex (v0.104.0) │
│ │
│ model: gpt-5.3-codex xhigh /model to change │
│ directory: ~/Development/bitterblossom │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Tip: New Try the Codex App with 2x rate limits until April 2nd. Run 'codex app' or visit
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⚠ collab is deprecated. Use [features].multi_agent instead.
Enable it with --enable multi_agent or [features].multi_agent in config.toml. See
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/config.md#feature-flags for details.

› ⚠ collab is deprecated. Use [features].multi_agent instead.
Enable it with --enable multi_agent or [features].multi_agent in config.toml. See
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/config.md#feature-flags for details.

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will you go check our ~/.codex config and fix this warning we're getting?

⚠ Your account was flagged for potentially high-risk cyber activity and this request was
routed to gpt-5.2 as a fallback. To regain access to gpt-5.3-codex, apply for trusted
access: https://chatgpt.com/cyber or learn more: https://developers.openai.com/codex/
concepts/cyber-safety

What is the expected behavior?

Not to be flagged lol

Additional information

I went to https://chatgpt.com/cyber and went through identity verification and was told that "Your identity couldn't be verified or your account is ineligible at this time"

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 6 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #12154
  • #12148
  • #12146
  • #12145
  • #12132

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etraut-openai contributor · 6 months ago

Thread ID: 019c715d-bdaf-76b2-a30c-8c846a350ac6

etraut-openai contributor · 6 months ago

Thanks for the bug report. We're continuing to tune our cyber safety classifiers to make them more accurate. You can read more about this here. If you see this again in the future and believe it's a false positive (i.e. you aren't doing anything related to cybersecurity), please use the /feedback slash command and choose "Safety Check" to report it. That will help us further tune our checks.