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botM to netsecEnglish · 1 month ago

Loopjacking Hijacking Human-in-the-Loop Approval

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Loopjacking: Hijacking Human-in-the-Loop Approval
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Human approval is often treated as the last security boundary before an agent executes a consequential operation. That boundary is only meaningful if the operation presented for review is the operation later authorized or released. We call failures of this binding Loopjacking: a human approves what they understand as operation A, while the implementation uses that decision for a materially different operation B. We distinguish two variants. In a representation-based attack, B is already encoded but omitted or misrepresented at approval time; in a post-approval state-substitution attack, the human sees the correct A and mutable workflow state later replaces it with B. We evaluate a purposive set of released agent products. We reproduce post-approval substitution in seven tested Agno AgentOS releases ending at 3.0.9 and in 12 tested versions of a conditional in-memory LangGraph Agent Server composition ending at 0.14.0. We reproduce representation mismatch in OpenClaw 2026.2.23 and its rejection in 2026.2.24. OpenAI Agents SDK 0.22.0 and 0.22.2 provide a negative control: serialized continuation preserves exact per-call binding and rejects mutated B. These results do not estimate ecosystem prevalence. They show that complete canonical approval rendering and exact use-time comparison, or preventing unauthorized pending-state mutation, block the tested attacks while preserving legitimate execution. We separate this contribution from established work on misleading dialogs, session smuggling, action binding, and authorization continuity.
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