AI编码代理存在长期未被追踪的安全漏洞,需用新框架管理。
The Vulnerability With No CVE: Managing Persistent Gaps Between Mandate and Authority in AI Coding Agents
- 提出「代理姿态漏洞」抽象模型,追踪跨任务的持续安全暴露。
- 漏洞持续存在直到权限收紧、控制补上或风险确认,不随事件结束而消失。
- 适合安全团队和开发人员评估和管理复杂AI代理的长期风险。
现有指导指出过度自主、权限过大、任务绑定授权不足及代理控制薄弱是重要风险。控制框架也描述了约束、授权、监控、验证和响应代理行为的能力。然而,安全项目仍缺乏对跨越组件且超出单个事件生命周期的已部署实例进行管理的方法。本文提出代理姿态漏洞(APV)作为任务条件下的漏洞管理抽象:一个用于记录组合代理控制暴露的持久化记录。一种姿态可能在不同任务中呈现不同运行时表现;APV将这些表现关联至不变的姿态,并在权限缩小、缺失控制补全、风险接受或关闭验证前保持开放状态。APV并非新的根本风险类别,而是对现有过度自主、授权和控制组合缺陷的操作化实现。我们区分了APV与可修复产品缺陷(CVE)、OWASP过度自主、代理基线控制结果以及运行时授权-执行差距。随后提供实地案例、阈值定义、六类常见模式、漏洞生命周期、最小记录格式、控制与关闭矩阵、工具化启示及可测试研究议程。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Existing guidance identifies excessive agency, excessive permission, weak task-bound authorization, and inadequate agent controls as important risks. Control frameworks also describe capabilities for constraining, authorizing, observing, validating, and responding to agent activity. Yet security programs still need a way to manage persistent deployed instances that span components and outlive any one event. We propose the agentic posture vulnerability (APV) as a task-conditioned vulnerability-management abstraction: a durable record for a composed agent-control exposure. One posture may produce different runtime manifestations across tasks; APV links those manifestations to the invariant posture and remains open until authority is narrowed, a missing control is added, risk is accepted, or closure is verified. APV is not proposed as a new root-cause class of risk; it operationalizes existing excessive-agency, authorization, and control-composition weaknesses. We distinguish APVs from CVE-addressable product defects, OWASP Excessive Agency, Agent Baseline control outcomes, and the runtime authorization-execution gap. We then provide a field vignette, a thresholded definition, six recurring APV patterns, a vulnerability lifecycle, a minimum record, a control-and-closure matrix, tooling implications, and a testable research agenda.
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