Specification-based Security Evaluation of Real-World Agents Tool-Calling under Long-Horizon Context Tasks
Yuchuan Fu, Minghe Wang, Xiaohan Yuan, Chenlin Zou, Kaitong Jia, Jinfeng Li, Dongxia Wang
原文摘要
As large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in long-horizon unattended scenarios, security evaluation of them before deployment becomes increasingly essential and challenging. Existing evaluation methods mainly follow the paradigms of LLM-as-a-Judge or Agent-as-a-Judge. However, such judges are themselves often vulnerable to hallucination and can even be affected by perturbations. Furthermore, because capturing full environment states at every step is often prohibitively expensive in open-ended environments, existing evaluations typically rely on textual logs and the final environment state. As a result, they may miss transient violations that are overwritten before the trajectory ends or never reflected in textual logs. We present RAS-Eval, a specification-based security evaluation framework for LLM agents. RAS-Eval uniformly expresses utility and security objectives as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications over tool-call trajectories and dynamic environment observations, and verifies them with an off-the-shelf model checker. This design addresses both limitations above. First, unlike LLM-as-a-Judge and Agent-as-a-Judge, RAS-Eval derives deterministic verdicts from formally defined properties, eliminating evaluator-side uncertainty and remaining reliable even for long-horizon trajectories. Second, RAS-Eval observes exactly the states on which the verdict depends, making it affordable to monitor the environment throughout execution and detect transient violations that leave little trace in the logs or final environment state. Moreover, we design a multi-agent-based dataset construction pipeline. Using it, we construct a benchmark (https://github.com/lanzer-tree/RAS-Eval) of 200 normal tasks and 800 attack tasks spanning four attack surfaces: indirect prompt injection, tool poisoning, skill code injection, and tool code injection.
cs.CR · cs.AI