False positive: GPT-5.6 Sol incorrectly flagged a normal Codex request as cybersecurity activity

Open 💬 6 comments Opened Jul 10, 2026 by wiketool
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.707.31428

What subscription do you have?

Chatgpt Pro 20x $200

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

I encountered what appears to be a false positive while using Codex.

During a normal coding session, one of my prompts was flagged as cybersecurity-related, even though my request was part of legitimate software development and did not involve malicious activity.

I have already submitted in-product feedback.

Feedback ID: 019f4ae8-5509-76b2-a6ba-ce3144c9cd0b

I have two questions:

Is there any plan to improve the classifier to reduce false positives for legitimate developer workflows?
Could this type of false positive have any impact on my account (for example, reputation, rate limits, or future access), or is it only used to improve the detection system?

I'm happy to provide additional context if it would help investigate the issue.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: 019f4ae8-5509-76b2-a6ba-ce3144c9cd0b

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

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6 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 10 days ago

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

  • #31294
  • #31032
  • #31809

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wiketool · 10 days ago

I'm happy to provide additional context if it would help investigate the issue.

mhassan1219 · 9 days ago

Also reporting this issue, I'm literally getting flagged for using the Codex Security diff review. Feedback ID: 019f502f-2d7c-7292-8a76-d1458aafbffe

polwex · 8 days ago

Same here, I reported it inside Codex CLI, ID:
019f5610-1e53-7d12-926f-98dcea1626da

Rather infuriating.

lampiaio · 8 days ago

Same here:
019f5014-99f0-7670-a2f4-ee29bc9d85c0
019f5904-0222-7570-8be5-391fa7138566

I'm porting a vintage/obsolete OS to a different hardware (akin to this). I keep getting "This content can't be shown". I've even tried making it abundantly clear in AGENTS.md and in my prompts that all work must always remain well inside legal, ethical and moral lines, and for the agent(s) to only do things that conform to that. The project is obviously harmless in nature but this security theater paranoia refusal is out of hand.

timmyjose · 5 days ago

Thread id: 019f640b-543f-7463-96f5-ac7968f7ecac. How on earth are we supposed to be able to work with these false flaggings?
I am working on _fixing_ reported potential exploits and vulnerabilities in my repos, __not__ introducing them.