Security · 1h ago
AI Agent Policy Engine Fails Open on Empty Inputs
A policy engine for an AI agent called claude-code-slack-channel had five bugs where missing data caused deny rules to be bypassed. For example, a Bash call to /etc/shadow was allowed because the engine received empty arguments. The fix requires failing closed when checks have no data to evaluate.
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The bugs show that even well-designed AI safety systems can be undermined by simple edge cases like empty inputs.
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