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OWASP ASI03: Identity & Privilege Abuse in AI Agents
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Identity and privilege abuse in AI agents lets an attacker who steers an agent inherit legitimate authority and a clean audit trail, making least-privilege and scoped credentials essential defenses for anyone deploying autonomous agents with SaaS and credential access.
Adversa AI's guide to OWASP ASI03 (Identity & Privilege Abuse in AI Agents) explains why identity abuse sets the blast radius for other agentic risks, cataloguing five identity abuse vectors, an attack lifecycle, and detection/prevention guidance around task-scoped, time-bound credentials. The piece uses the Salesloft Drift breach as a case study of how agents borrowing broad privileges and inheriting operator identity widen the attack surface.