false positive cybersecurity-risk warning

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened May 12, 2026 by mangaohua Closed May 12, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

0.131.0-alpha.4

What subscription do you have?

chatgpt pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.5 xhigh

What platform is your computer?

_No response_

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

_No response_

What issue are you seeing?

Codex CLI appears to be showing a cybersecurity-risk warning for a trivial non-cyber prompt.
Repro: launch Codex with memories disabled in an empty/local project, then send only “hi”.
Observed: “Your conversations have multiple flags for possible cybersecurity risk…”
This appears to be a false positive. I am not requesting exploit development, credential theft, malware, unauthorized scanning, or any other cybersecurity activity.
Please review whether my account/conversation was incorrectly placed under cyber safety mitigations. I do not want to complete Trusted Access/KYC for a false positive.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019e1ae5-abf4-7261-92e7-02902f18ec9d

What is the expected behavior?

remove the warning for my account

Additional information

I have joined the company AI coding match, some leetcode optimization code may be the cause of false positive cybersecurity-risk warning

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2 Comments

0x1622 · 3 months ago

Try using GPT 5.4 or older models and see if it is flagged as a cybersecurity risk again.

etraut-openai contributor · 3 months ago

Thanks for reporting. This will help us refine our classifier.