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AI Harnesses Repeat Old Middleware Trust Bugs

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

AI harnesses, which wrap LLMs with connectors and plugins, create chains of trust boundaries where components often fail to verify each other's output. This mirrors classic appsec issues like deserialization and SSRF, but with a probabilistic text generator as the untrusted input source. The real risk is that teams ship these systems without basic interface validation, prioritizing speed over security.

Meridian48 take
The framing as a novel AI threat is overstated; it's an integration security problem with an LLM costume, but the speed of deployment without threat modeling is genuinely concerning.
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