Coding agents struggle to infer least-privilege file permissions by omitting needed accesses while granting unused or sensitive ones, but Sufficiency-Tightness Decomposition improves sensitive-task success by up to 15.8% and reduces attacks.
The protection of information in computer systems.Proceedings of the IEEE, 63(9):1278–1308
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The paper defines and evaluates Trojan Hippo attacks on LLM agent memory, showing 85-100% success in data exfiltration across backends and reduced rates with defenses at varying utility costs.
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Do Coding Agents Understand Least-Privilege Authorization?
Coding agents struggle to infer least-privilege file permissions by omitting needed accesses while granting unused or sensitive ones, but Sufficiency-Tightness Decomposition improves sensitive-task success by up to 15.8% and reduces attacks.
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Trojan Hippo: Weaponizing Agent Memory for Data Exfiltration
The paper defines and evaluates Trojan Hippo attacks on LLM agent memory, showing 85-100% success in data exfiltration across backends and reduced rates with defenses at varying utility costs.