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Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other

During the Month of AI Bugs, I described an emerging vulnerability pattern that shows how commonly agentic systems have a design flaw that allows an agent to overwrite its own configuration and security settings. This allows the agent to break out of its sandbox and escape by executing arbitrary code. My research with GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro and a few others demonstrated how this can be exploited

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other
First reported
Sep 24, 2025 19:20 UTC
Last reported
Sep 24, 2025 19:20 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
Record ID
52e8bf7ac3c1f04bb7545d7887c3820558874962c107046cac7fdae42a47ac5f

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src_c25d91fa3ad9ae9ac7

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Sep 24, 2025 19:20 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC

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