arXiv:2606. 10749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are rapidly moving from conversational interfaces to software components that plan, invoke tools, maintain memory, and act on external environments.
By Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen, Chunrong Fang
arXiv:2606. 26627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly query databases, search document collections, call external APIs, remember past interactions, and act on a user's behalf.
By Nada Lahjouji, Ashwin Gerard Colaco
PrivacyFlow introduces a new benchmark, PrivacyBench, and a defense system that separates privacy planning from task execution in autonomous LLM agents. The system traces data provenance, models recipient knowledge, and simulates inference attacks to weigh disclosure risk against task utility, allowing it to minimize or block data sharing. Experiments show that PrivacyFlow reduces privacy failures and increases completed task sequences by 22–55 percentage points, while revealing a tradeoff between privacy, utility, and user autonomy.
By Robin Staab, Tom Wollschl\"ager, Vahab Mirrokni, Reza Shokri
Autonomous LLM agents executing multi-step workflows over personal data often misalign with user privacy expectations and leak sensitive, out-of-context information. Although Contextual Integrity (CI)...
arXiv:2606. 09549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents face two distinct security failures: unauthorized external actions and exposure of sensitive plaintext inside the runtime before any final output check can intervene.
By Yuhan Ma, Stefan Schmid
arXiv:2607. 24625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous LLM agents processing mixed-confidentiality data face severe security risks from prompt injection attacks and reasoning errors.
By Arseny Kravchenko, Vadim Liventsev, Innokentii Konstantinov, Ildar Iskhakov, Matvey Kukuy
The paper "Log-To-Leak: Prompt Injection Attacks on Tool-Using LLM Agents via the Model Context Protocol" investigates how natural-language metadata in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) can be exploited to inject malicious post‑hoc logging calls into large language model agents. The authors introduce the Log-To-Leak attack, which adds an attacker‑controlled call after a legitimate tool invocation, targeting user queries, MCP server names, server responses, and agent responses. Experiments across five MCP servers and four LLM agents show high attack success rates (up to 100%) and significant logging accuracy, while existing defenses still leave substantial residual risk.
By Yuepeng Hu, Chongyu Fan, Sirat Samyoun, Jian Du
Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems can expose protected state through internal messages, tool arguments, logs, and persistent memory even when their public outputs appear innocuous. Existing privacy prompts, redaction methods, and source-level access controls restrict surface content or data access, but do not specify what a legitimately informed agent should disclose or how that disclosure may be reused downstream.
arXiv:2602. 20064v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as agents: they plan, call tools, read untrusted data, and act on the results.
By Zac Garby, Andrew D. Gordon, David Sands
ActGov is a runtime enforcement framework that validates each action proposed by a large language model (LLM) agent before it interacts with external tools, ensuring that actions stay within task‑scoped authorization boundaries and comply with dynamically constructed policies. It builds policies from tool specifications, benign tasks, and failure traces, verifying updates via SMT‑based counterexample checking. In evaluations on AgentDojo and AgentDyn benchmarks, ActGov consistently reduces indirect prompt‑injection attack success while maintaining task utility, outperforming existing defenses.
By Kaiyuan Zhang, Yuke Peng, Ke Jiang, Yinqian Zhang
arXiv:2606. 00152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents are rapidly advancing, autonomously invoking external tools to complete multi-step tasks for users.
By Mingxuan Zhang, Jiahui Han, Dadi Guo, Songze Li, Guanchu Wang, Na Zou, Dongrui Liu, Xia Hu
Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly execute long-horizon workflows through external tools, allowing untrusted outputs to influence subsequent actions and exceed user authorization. Existing...