raghu@dark-factory :~/kb/confused-deputy $ cat

Confused deputy

A privileged agent tricked by untrusted input into misusing its own authority on an attacker's behalf, e.g. exfiltrating data via a permitted egress path.

grounded in: doctrine Guardrails 'no ... new external network calls' + the 'AI agent wire-level transparency' trend (what agent CLIs transmit) — the classic access-control failure underlying the lethal trifecta

Connected concepts

Lethal Trifecta, Prompt injection, Agent identity & access mgmt, Capability-Based Security

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