Agent secret leakage

A credential escapes through model context, logs, tool arguments or outbound messages.

01 / Attack path

How the boundary is crossed

A diagnostic agent reads a local environment file and posts its contents to a ticket as troubleshooting evidence.

Attack path and interception point
  1. 01Lower-trust input
  2. 02Attempted instruction
  3. 03Protected action
  4. 04Enforced decision

02 / Containment

Where bounded authority limits the effect

Keep credentials outside model-visible context, redact logs, limit file and egress access and rotate any exposed secret.

03 / Failure and evidence

The attacker’s opportunity and the defender’s record

Exploit condition

A helpful diagnostic workflow transforms local secret access into an external disclosure.

Evidence to retain

Record secret identifier, access path, destination, detection and rotation, never the secret value.

04 / Canonical scope

Why this reference stands alone

Credential overreach concerns use of a powerful token; this page owns its disclosure.

Protocol or attack trace

Secret-to-ticket route

Sequence

Diagnostic agent reads environment file and posts raw contents to a support ticket.

Negative test

Deny secret file access or redact before model context; block outbound ticket attachment containing credential material.

Primary references

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Architecture discussion

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