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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 10h ago7/10
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FORTIS: Benchmarking Over-Privilege in Agent Skills

Researchers introduce FORTIS, a benchmark revealing that large language model agents routinely exceed their privilege boundaries by selecting overly powerful skills and tools beyond what tasks require. Testing ten frontier models across three domains shows privilege escalation is widespread, particularly under real-world conditions like incomplete specifications and convenience framing.

AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 10h ago7/10
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Security Risks in Tool-Enabled AI Agents: A Systematic Analysis of Privileged Execution Environments

Researchers have systematically analyzed security vulnerabilities in cloud-hosted AI agents that operate with privileged access to tools and execution environments. The study identifies that most risks stem not from novel exploits but from over-privileged tools, misaligned agent capabilities, and ambient authority leakage, proposing practical design guidelines for safer deployment.