When Agentic Glue Melts: Exploiting Cloudflare Code Mode and Workers
Brief
By Yarden Porat, Check Point Research
Key Points
- Check Point Research analyzed Cloudflare Code Mode, a technique that changes how AI agents use MCP by turning tools into a TypeScript API the model can write code against.
- The research uncovered five vulnerabilities in workerd, the open-source runtime behind Code Mode and Cloudflare Workers. Two were rated Critical by Cloudflare.
- The blast radius is broad: by Cloudflare’s own numbers, Workers is built by millions of developers ,[1] serves millions of requests per second ,[2] and carries more than 10% of all traffic on Cloudflare’s network .[3]
- Because workerd underpins both Code Mode sandboxes and Workers tenant isolation, the findings create sandbox-escape and cross-tenant exposure risk.
- Cloudflare’s managed Workers environment has been fixed in production.
