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    Tag: Privilege Escalation

    Sep 23
    9 min read
    Simulated Privilege Escalation Testing: Automated Red-Teaming for Agent Tool Boundaries

    In traditional enterprise software engineering and cloud infrastructure security, vulnerability management is heavily proactive. Before a software release or cloud migration goes live, security teams deploy automated penetration testing tools, dynamic application security testing (DAST) scanners, and dedicated red teams. These adversarial testers systematically probe web applications, API gateways, and IAM permission masks to uncover […]

    Sep 23
    10 min read
    Mitigating Indirect Privilege Escalation via Chain-of-Thought Manipulation

    In traditional software security, privilege escalation is typically divided into vertical and horizontal vectors. A user or process with limited rights exploits a software bug, unpatched vulnerability, or misconfigured permission mask to gain administrative control (vertical) or access peer accounts (horizontal). Traditional access control lists (ACLs) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) frameworks are engineered to […]