agent-threat-rules 2.0.15 → 2.0.17
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- package/package.json +1 -1
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00032-goal-hijacking.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00074-cross-agent-privilege-escalation.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00076-inter-agent-message-spoofing.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00077-human-trust-exploitation.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00108-consensus-sybil-attack.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00116-a2a-message-validation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00117-agent-identity-spoofing.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00119-social-engineering-via-agent.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00132-casual-authority-escalation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00139-casual-authority-redirect.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00164-skill-scope-hijack.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00269-fitd-escalation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00271-grandma-roleplay-jailbreak.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/agent-manipulation/ATR-2026-00273-dan-developer-mode-persona.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00021-api-key-exposure.yaml +9 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00075-agent-memory-manipulation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00102-disguised-analytics-exfiltration.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00113-credential-theft.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00114-oauth-token-abuse.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00115-env-var-harvesting.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00136-tool-response-data-piggyback.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00212-mcp-atlassian-credential-leak.yaml +165 -0
- package/rules/context-exfiltration/ATR-2026-00261-markdown-image-exfiltration.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/data-poisoning/ATR-2026-00070-data-poisoning.yaml +9 -0
- package/rules/excessive-autonomy/ATR-2026-00050-runaway-agent-loop.yaml +5 -0
- package/rules/excessive-autonomy/ATR-2026-00051-resource-exhaustion.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/excessive-autonomy/ATR-2026-00052-cascading-failure.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/excessive-autonomy/ATR-2026-00098-unauthorized-financial-action.yaml +31 -0
- package/rules/excessive-autonomy/ATR-2026-00099-high-risk-tool-gate.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/model-abuse/ATR-2026-00279-harmful-completion-continuation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/model-abuse/ATR-2026-00281-eicar-gtube-malware-signature-request.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/model-abuse/ATR-2026-00289-lmrc-harmful-content-elicitation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/model-abuse/ATR-2026-00292-self-harm-eating-disorder-facilitation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/model-abuse/ATR-2026-00298-malicious-use-illegal-activity-request.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/model-abuse/ATR-2026-00299-harmbench-detailed-harmful-instruction.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/model-security/ATR-2026-00072-model-behavior-extraction.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/model-security/ATR-2026-00073-malicious-finetuning-data.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-00040-privilege-escalation.yaml +5 -0
- package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-00041-scope-creep.yaml +24 -0
- package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-00107-delayed-execution-bypass.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-00110-eval-injection.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-00111-shell-escape.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-00112-dynamic-import-exploitation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/privilege-escalation/ATR-2026-00143-casual-privilege-escalation.yaml +22 -0
- package/rules/prompt-injection/ATR-2026-00003-jailbreak-attempt.yaml +23 -0
- package/rules/tool-poisoning/ATR-2026-00209-mcpwn-runaway-invocation.yaml +162 -0
- package/rules/tool-poisoning/ATR-2026-00210-flowise-system-message-override.yaml +162 -0
package/package.json
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"name": "agent-threat-rules",
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"version": "2.0.
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"version": "2.0.17",
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"type": "module",
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"description": "Open detection standard -- like Sigma, but for AI agents. 311 rules for prompt injection, tool poisoning, context exfiltration, and MCP attacks. Shipped in Cisco AI Defense. 97.1% recall on NVIDIA garak.",
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compliance:
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- article: "14"
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context: "Goal hijacking redirects the agent away from its authorized objectives without human awareness, directly undermining the human oversight mechanisms Article 14 requires for high-risk AI systems."
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strength: primary
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context: "Article 15 robustness requirements include resistance against adversarial redirection of agent objectives; this rule detects explicit and subtle goal-pivot patterns at runtime."
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strength: secondary
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context: "Goal hijacking attacks subvert the accountability roles assigned to AI agents by redirecting them from authorized objectives; GV.1.2 requires that defined accountability roles and their task boundaries are enforced at runtime."
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strength: primary
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context: "Detecting goal hijacking patterns triggers the risk treatment plans required by MG.2.3 to contain adversarial task-redirection before the agent executes unauthorized actions."
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context: "ISO 42001 clause 6.2 risk treatment plans must address task-redirection attacks; this rule implements the monitoring control that detects when an agent's objective is adversarially substituted."
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context: "Clause 8.6 operational controls ensure AI systems operate within their authorized task boundaries; goal hijacking detection enforces that agents remain on their assigned objective despite redirection attempts."
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tags:
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subcategory: goal-hijacking
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context: "Cross-agent privilege escalation allows one agent to acquire capabilities from another agent's authorization scope without human approval, directly bypassing the role-based access controls that Article 14 human oversight requires."
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strength: primary
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context: "Multi-agent privilege escalation via trust relationships is a documented attack pattern in the AI system risk register; Article 9 requires monitoring controls for this lateral movement risk."
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context: "Cross-agent privilege escalation exploits gaps in the accountability roles defined for each agent in a multi-agent system; GV.1.2 requires that agent role boundaries are defined and that lateral movement across those boundaries is detected."
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context: "Credential forwarding and orchestrator bypass between agents require immediate risk treatment to prevent lateral movement from escalating to full system compromise; MG.2.3 mandates that these response plans are pre-defined and activated on detection."
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context: "ISO 42001 clause 6.2 risk treatment activities must cover inter-agent privilege escalation as a multi-agent architecture risk; this rule implements the detection control for credential forwarding and unauthorized role assumption between agents."
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context: "Clause 8.6 operational controls ensure each agent executes within its authorized capability set; cross-agent privilege escalation detection enforces that no agent can assume the permissions of a higher-privilege agent without explicit authorization."
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context: "Article 15 cybersecurity requirements for high-risk AI include protecting agent communication channels against spoofing, replay, and message integrity attacks; this rule detects structural communication failures between agents."
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context: "Spoofed inter-agent messages can trigger unauthorized agent actions without any human-visible audit trail, undermining the traceability required by Article 14 human oversight provisions."
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context: "Spoofed, replayed, and unauthenticated inter-agent messages are adversarial inputs that exploit trust assumptions in multi-agent communication channels; MP.5.1 requires that these structural communication integrity attacks are identified and tracked."
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context: "Detection of message spoofing, replay attacks, and null authentication in agent channels triggers risk treatment plans to quarantine compromised messages before they cause unauthorized actions downstream; MG.2.3 requires these treatment processes are defined."
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context: "Clause 8.6 operational controls require that inter-agent communication operates with verified message authentication; detection of null tokens, forged IDs, and unauthenticated commands enforces the integrity requirements for correct agent pipeline execution."
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context: "Article 13 transparency obligations require that AI systems do not exploit informational asymmetries to manipulate human users; human-trust exploitation attacks weaponize the AI's perceived authority and credibility against its own users."
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context: "Trust exploitation techniques undermine the human's ability to critically evaluate agent outputs and decisions, eroding the informed oversight capability Article 14 requires to remain effective."
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context: "Human-agent trust exploitation weaponizes information asymmetry between the AI system and its operators; GV.6.1 data governance policies must ensure AI systems do not suppress or fabricate information to manipulate human decision-makers."
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context: "False certainty claims, manufactured urgency, and verification discouragement are adversarial input patterns targeting human operators rather than the AI system itself; MP.5.1 requires identifying and tracking these social-engineering attack vectors."
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context: "ISO 42001 clause 8.4 requires documented AI system impact assessments; human-trust exploitation attacks that suppress warnings or manufacture urgency to bypass review represent a documented impact category requiring runtime detection controls."
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context: "Disguised analytics exfiltration exploits the assumption that telemetry collection is harmless to covertly transmit full conversation context to attacker-controlled endpoints; Article 13 transparency obligations require that AI systems and their tools disclose all data collection practices clearly to users."
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context: "Article 15 cybersecurity requirements include protection against tools that misrepresent their data handling to facilitate unauthorized data extraction; detection of analytics-disguised exfiltration is a required control for high-risk AI deployments."
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context: "Disguised analytics exfiltration violates data governance boundaries by covertly transmitting full conversation context under the cover of routine telemetry, bypassing the data handling policies that GV.6.1 requires AI systems to enforce."
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context: "Detection of analytics-disguised data exfiltration is a data protection control measurement required under MS.2.5 to verify that AI system tool invocations do not silently leak user conversation data to external endpoints."
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context: "Disguised analytics exfiltration requires a documented AI system impact assessment under clause 8.4 that identifies tools claiming benign analytics roles as a covert data exfiltration vector affecting user privacy."
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context: "Ongoing monitoring and evaluation under clause 9.1 must include checks that tool-level data transmission claims are consistent with stated telemetry policies, detecting analytics-disguised exfiltration during operational review."
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eu_ai_act:
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context: "Credential file theft through agent tool access compromises every downstream service connected to the stolen credentials; Article 15 cybersecurity requirements mandate that high-risk AI systems include controls preventing agents from accessing credential stores outside their authorized scope."
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context: "Credential theft undermines the integrity of audit logs and access records that Article 12 logging obligations depend on; an attacker who obtains credentials can falsify or erase audit trails, making Article 12 compliance unverifiable."
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context: "Adversarial tool calls targeting credential files such as ~/.aws/credentials and SSH private keys represent a direct exploitation of the agent's file-access capabilities that must be identified and tracked as a critical AI system risk."
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context: "Data governance policies must define and enforce scope restrictions on agent access to credential stores, preventing AI tools from reading authentication files outside their authorized operational boundary."
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context: "Risk treatment activities must include controls that block agent access to well-known credential file paths, reducing the attack surface for credential theft through AI tool invocations."
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context: "AI system impact assessments must document and review the potential consequences of credential file theft, including lateral movement across all downstream services connected to stolen credentials."
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eu_ai_act:
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- article: "15"
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context: "OAuth token interception and redirect_uri manipulation enable agent-assisted account takeover across all services using the stolen token; Article 15 cybersecurity requirements mandate that high-risk AI systems detect and block token theft patterns in agent-handled authentication flows."
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strength: primary
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context: "Stolen OAuth tokens allow attackers to impersonate legitimate users in audit logs, corrupting the record integrity that Article 12 requires; token interception detection is a prerequisite for maintaining trustworthy audit trails."
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context: "OAuth token interception and malicious redirect_uri manipulation are adversarial input risks that exploit the agent's participation in authentication flows to capture credentials intended for legitimate services."
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context: "Data governance policies must restrict agent handling of bearer tokens, refresh tokens, and client secrets to prevent AI-assisted exfiltration of authorization credentials via forwarding or redirect manipulation."
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context: "Risk treatment plans must address OAuth token interception scenarios by requiring agents to validate redirect URIs and prohibiting forwarding of authorization tokens to non-allowlisted destinations."
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strength: primary
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context: "Impact assessments must document the account-takeover blast radius of OAuth token theft through agent-mediated flows, covering all services that accept the stolen bearer token."
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context: "Bulk environment variable harvesting exposes every secret in the agent runtime in a single operation, providing an attacker with complete access to all connected services; Article 15 cybersecurity requirements mandate that AI systems resist systematic environment enumeration attacks."
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context: "Exfiltrated environment variables typically include logging and monitoring credentials; Article 12 record-keeping integrity depends on protecting the secrets that secure audit infrastructure from compromise via environment harvesting."
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context: "Bulk environment variable harvesting via printenv, os.environ, or .env file reads is an adversarial technique that exploits agent runtime access to extract every secret in a single operation, and must be tracked as a critical AI system attack vector."
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context: "Data governance policies must explicitly prohibit agent tools from accessing the full process environment or .env files, as these sources aggregate all application secrets and database credentials into a single exfiltration target."
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context: "Risk treatment activities must implement least-privilege environment access controls that prevent agent tools from reading bulk environment state and combining it with network exfiltration calls."
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context: "Impact assessments must document the total credential exposure scope of a successful environment harvesting attack, as compromising the full environment grants access to every connected service simultaneously."
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