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AgentXploit: Auditing AI Agents for Security Vulnerabilities

AgentXploit studies security risks in AI agents that combine language models with external tools, focusing on vulnerabilities like path traversal and command injection. It proposes white-box pre-deployment auditing using access to the target repository to detect these issues.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-25T14:26:04+00:00 Detected 2026-09-28T05:17:46+00:00
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AgentXploit studies security risks in AI agents that combine language models with external tools, focusing on vulnerabilities like path traversal and command injection. It proposes white-box pre-deployment auditing using access to the target repository to detect these issues.

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AI agents combine language models with external data and tools that can modify files, call APIs, or execute code. Security failures can arise when adversarial content changes an agent's tool use or when the surrounding software contains vulnerabilities such as path traversal or command injection. We study...

As AI agents increasingly interact with external data and execute code, identifying and mitigating security flaws before deployment is critical to prevent exploitation. This research offers a method to enhance the safety of AI agents by auditing their software and tool usage.

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