arXiv:2604.23338cs.CRcs.LG2026-04综述被引 7

构建分层攻击面框架,系统梳理大模型智能体安全威胁与防御空白。

A Systematic Survey of Security Threats and Defenses in LLM-Based AI Agents: A Layered Attack Surface Framework

  • 提出7层架构+4类时间维度的分层攻击面模型,覆盖从基础到治理的全栈风险
  • 分析116篇论文发现上层威胁研究严重不足,跨会话攻击无有效防御
  • 开源代码与基准方案,助力可复现的安全评估与防御设计

智能体化AI系统引入了与静态大语言模型截然不同的安全面。它们具备记忆持久性、调用外部工具、与其他智能体协作以及跨会话运行能力,使攻击不仅出现在提示接口,更可能通过架构状态、委托权限和长周期交互等途径出现。现有安全分类多按攻击类型(如提示注入、越狱)组织,难以定位威胁在智能体栈中的具体位置及其发生时序。本文提出分层攻击面模型(\\_lasm),将智能体栈分解为七层——基础层、认知层、记忆层、工具执行层、多智能体协同层、生态层与治理层,并引入四类时间轴(即时、会话持续、跨会话累积、子栈级)进行补充。基于此7×4框架,分析2021–2026年间116篇论文,发现上层智能体结构仍严重缺乏研究,尤其对长周期与传播性威胁;多个已知攻击区域尚无对应防御;当前基准未覆盖跨会话或子栈级故障模式。我们进一步构建跨层防御分类体系、典型攻击的防御方案及依赖图谱,区分短期工程缺口与根本研究挑战。项目附带每篇论文编码、鲁棒性脚本与参考智能体物料清单模板,支持可复现分析。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Agentic AI systems introduce a security surface that is qualitatively different from that of stateless LLMs. They persist memory, invoke external tools, coordinate with peer agents, and operate across sessions, allowing attacks to emerge not only at the prompt interface but also through architectural state, delegated authority, and long-horizon interactions. Existing security taxonomies, however, primarily organize threats by attack type, such as prompt injection or jailbreaking, and therefore obscure where in the agentic stack a threat arises and over what timescale it manifests. We propose the Layered Attack Surface Model (\lasm), a structural taxonomy for agentic AI security. \lasm decomposes the agentic stack into seven layers -- Foundation, Cognitive, Memory, Tool Execution, Multi-Agent Coordination, Ecosystem, and Governance -- and augments them with a four-class temporality axis covering instantaneous, session-persistent, cross-session cumulative, and sub-session-stack threats. We use this 7$\times$4 framework to analyze 116 papers from 2021--2026. The resulting map reveals that the upper layers of the agentic stack remain sharply under-explored, especially for long-horizon and stack-propagating threats; multiple documented attack regions have no corresponding defenses; and current benchmarks provide no coverage for cross-session or sub-session-stack failure modes. We further derive a cross-layer defense taxonomy, defense recipes for canonical attack classes, and a dependency DAG that separates near-term engineering gaps from fundamental research challenges. We release the per-paper coding, robustness scripts, and a reference Agent Bill of Materials schema to support reproducible analysis.

智能体安全攻击面建模防御框架综述

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