Tool Upgrade
A security vulnerability in AI agents in which an attacker induces the agent to call high-privilege write APIs that it should not call, achieving privilege escalation or unauthorized operations.
Timeline (last 90 days)
The four vulnerability types Elena's team found were: prompt injection leaking the system prompt, tool escalation bypassing restrictions to access restricted APIs, a data leakage path across tenant boundaries, and a denial of wallet loop that could burn through $200 of API credits overnight.
The five starting scenarios suggested by the civilian red team testing framework include: prompt injection, jailbreak variants, tool escalation, data leakage and denial of wallet.
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The four vulnerability types Elena's team found were: prompt injection leaking the system prompt, tool escalation bypassing restrictions to access restricted APIs, a data leakage path across tenant boundaries, and a denial of wallet loop that could burn through $200 of API credits overnight.
50%UnverifiedThe five starting scenarios suggested by the civilian red team testing framework include: prompt injection, jailbreak variants, tool escalation, data leakage and denial of wallet.
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