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privilege-escalation2 posts
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Multi-Agent Orchestration Security: Trust, Delegation, and Inter-Agent Attack Surfaces
When Agent A delegates a task to Agent B, the security properties of the entire system reduce to the weakest trust model in the chain. This post maps the attack taxonomy unique to orchestrator-worker architectures — privilege escalation, agent impersonation, confused deputy, tool-chain hijacking — and pairs each with concrete defenses grounded in published research.
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Multi-Agent Trust Escalation: How Subagents Inherit and Abuse Orchestrator Permissions
Multi-agent architectures introduce a trust escalation problem analogous to privilege escalation in OS security. When orchestrators delegate permissions to subagents, the attack surface multiplies. This post maps the attack classes, draws the OS and service-mesh analogies, and offers concrete defenses.