Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other

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<p>During the <a href="https://monthofaibugs.com">Month of AI Bugs</a>, 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.</p> <p>This allows the agent to break out of its sandbox and escape by executing arbitrary code.</p> <p>My research with <