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20 Blocks, 4 Breakouts: The Mechanics of Bypassing Agentic Sandboxes
A deep dive into execution-layer isolation for autonomous agents.
Ran 24 complex agentic attack vectors — from multi-step tool-chaining
exfiltration to living-off-the-land binary abuse — against a
deterministic sandbox. 83.3% block rate at the OS boundary.
The 4 breakouts that survived are transparently mapped:
blind DNS exfiltration, TOCTOU symlink races, trusted-binary abuse
via git config weaponization, and IPC-based credential laundering
through named pipes.
Research by Mohd. Tabrez Mukadam, Founder at Keter Labs.
BENCHMARK 24 agentic attack vectors
BLOCKED 20 at OS boundary
BREAKOUTS 4 execution-layer bypasses
ISOLATION 83.3%
BYPASS 01 Blind DNS exfiltration
BYPASS 02 TOCTOU symlink race
BYPASS 03 Tool-chaining reflection (git)
BYPASS 04 Env var smuggling via IPC
FORMAT Full article · 8 sections
AUTHOR M. T. Mukadam // Keter Labs
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