看似无害的指令也能让电脑代理犯错,暴露安全漏洞。
The Blind Spot of Agent Safety: How Benign User Instructions Expose Critical Vulnerabilities in Computer-Use Agents

- 设计新基准测试,模拟用户指令无害但任务有风险的场景。
- 主流代理攻击成功率超90%,多智能体系统下更达92.7%。
- 现有安全机制在无害指令下失效,尤其在复杂任务中。
计算机使用代理(CUAs)如今可在真实数字环境中自主完成复杂任务,但一旦被误导,也可能被用来自动化执行有害操作。现有安全评估主要针对显式威胁如滥用和提示注入,却忽略了用户指令完全无害,但任务上下文或执行结果导致危害的微妙场景。我们提出OS-BLIND基准,评估代理在非预期攻击条件下的表现,包含300个手工设计的任务,覆盖12类、8个应用,以及两类威胁:环境嵌入型威胁和代理发起的危害。对前沿模型与智能体框架的评估显示,多数CUAs攻击成功率(ASR)超过90%,即使安全对齐的Claude 4.5 Sonnet也达到73.0%。更值得关注的是,在多智能体系统中,其攻击成功率升至92.7%。分析表明,现有安全防御在无害指令下保护作用有限:安全对齐仅在前几步激活,后续极少重新启动;多智能体分解子任务会掩盖有害意图,导致安全模型失效。我们将在未来公开OS-BLIND,以推动学界深入研究并应对这些安全挑战。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Computer-use agents (CUAs) can now autonomously complete complex tasks in real digital environments, but when misled, they can also be used to automate harmful actions programmatically. Existing safety evaluations largely target explicit threats such as misuse and prompt injection, but overlook a subtle yet critical setting where user instructions are entirely benign and harm arises from the task context or execution outcome. We introduce OS-BLIND, a benchmark that evaluates CUAs under unintended attack conditions, comprising 300 human-crafted tasks across 12 categories, 8 applications, and 2 threat clusters: environment-embedded threats and agent-initiated harms. Our evaluation on frontier models and agentic frameworks reveals that most CUAs exceed 90% attack success rate (ASR), and even the safety-aligned Claude 4.5 Sonnet reaches 73.0% ASR. More interestingly, this vulnerability becomes even more severe, with ASR rising from 73.0% to 92.7% when Claude 4.5 Sonnet is deployed in multi-agent systems. Our analysis further shows that existing safety defenses provide limited protection when user instructions are benign. Safety alignment primarily activates within the first few steps and rarely re-engages during subsequent execution. In multi-agent systems, decomposed subtasks obscure the harmful intent from the model, causing safety-aligned models to fail. We will release our OS-BLIND to encourage the broader research community to further investigate and address these safety challenges.
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