Unauthorized infrastructure changes by agents

An agent mutates live infrastructure outside its approved incident or maintenance window.

01 / Attack path

How the boundary is crossed

A remediation agent proposes restarting a production database because a telemetry note says it is unhealthy.

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

Require a current incident, exact resource and operation grant, change window and independent approval for high-impact targets before the cloud API call.

03 / Failure and evidence

The attacker’s opportunity and the defender’s record

Exploit condition

A broad operations role converts a model recommendation into a production restart.

Evidence to retain

Record incident, target, command, approver, enforcement result and independently observed service state.

04 / Canonical scope

Why this reference stands alone

Policy bypass concerns routing around the check; this threat owns the unauthorized change itself.

Protocol or attack trace

Production-change gate

Sequence

Telemetry text suggests restarting database D while incident grant only covers host H.

Negative test

Cloud API denies restart of D; high-impact change requires current maintenance context and approval.

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