CCDV-F practice › Security and Safety · Question 25 of 92

Security and Safety

An autonomous agent runs with the full API credentials of the engineer who launched it, including production database write access it never actually needs. What's the finding here?

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Answer: B — A least-privilege violation — the agent should hold only the scoped access its task requires

An agent inheriting its launcher's full credentials is a standard least-privilege violation regardless of internal-vs-external use — a manipulated agent can exercise access its task never called for.