{"data":{"id":"5a5697a3-add7-44e2-ba5e-ff376d93a2bb","title":"When Approval Becomes Execution: Authorization-Grounded Workflow Attacks on Tool-Using Agents","summary":"This paper studies an authorization-grounded workflow attack on tool-using language-model agents in the OpenClaw Agent Security Attack Competition. The attack walks the agent through a denied document request, a normal approval token request to the local approval service, and supplying that token to the document service via authorized_by, succeeding on three Enterprise OA document targets. In 23 controlled local validation experiments, the original configuration reached the approval-token transition in 9/9 reruns and completed the exact target operation in 8/9 reruns.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["security","research"],"sourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23077v1","publishedAt":"2026-10-16T07:47:57.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":["other"],"issueType":"research","affectedPackages":null,"affectedPackageNames":null,"affectedPackageRefs":null,"affectedVendors":[],"affectedVendorsRaw":["OpenClaw"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-5-5","classifierPromptVersion":"v4","summaryPromptVersion":"v2","headline":null,"headlinePromptVersion":null,"cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"epssCheckedAt":null,"kevDateAdded":null,"advisoryAliases":null,"affectedPackagesSource":null,"affectedPackagesCheckedAt":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-10-16T07:47:57.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"moderate","impactType":["confidentiality","integrity"],"aiComponentTargeted":"agent","llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.93,"researchCategory":"preprint","atlasIds":null}}