AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 6h ago7/10
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When Lower Privileges Suffice: Investigating Over-Privileged Tool Selection in LLM Agents
Researchers have identified a critical safety vulnerability in LLM agents: they frequently select tools with excessive privileges when lower-privilege alternatives would suffice. The study introduces ToolPrivBench to measure this behavior and proposes privilege-aware post-training as a defense mechanism to ensure agents escalate permissions only when necessary.