What Does This Mean?
A security problem where a trusted agent, which legitimately holds more permission than an untrusted party, gets tricked by that party into misusing its own authority on their behalf — the agent isn't compromised, it's just doing exactly what it was fooled into thinking was a valid request.
EXPLAINER
CyberSecurityTV · original source ↗
EXPLAINER
Z. Cliffe Schreuders · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The support agent wasn't hacked, it was a confused deputy — it just believed the customer's crafted message really was from an admin."
LORE & ORIGIN
A classical computer-security concept predating LLMs by decades, newly urgent now that autonomous agents routinely hold exactly this kind of delegated authority.
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