Ajar: Measuring Open Privilege in Agent Defenses

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Reshabh K Sharma, Linxi Jiang, Shuo Chen, Zhiqiang Lin)

Summary by Cyber Security News24 Sep 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2609.26900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A language model agent acts through the tools it is given. The data it reads while working on a task can redirect what it does with those tools. A growing set of techniques for safe and secure agent execution therefore sits between the agent and its tools, aiming to enforce access control, information flow or isolation at that boundary.

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