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AST03: Over-Privileged Skills and the DROP TABLE Problem

AST03 of the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10: the risk where nothing is malicious and the damage still lands. Permission checks fire at tool-call level, not intent - so a SELECT-permitted skill can DROP TABLE. With Meta's inbox-deletion incident, LPCI and LAAF research, and the per-skill credential controls that close the gap.

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The Pipeline Is the Attack: AST02 Skill Supply Chain Compromise, Explained

AST02 of the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 maps attacks on the skill distribution layer: registry flooding, dependency confusion, config files that execute on clone (CVE-2025-59536, CVE-2026-21852), and maintainer takeover. With Trail of Bits' evidence that every marketplace scanner can be bypassed.

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Agent Skills Are the New npm: OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 Explained

The OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 maps the 10 risks of the AI-agent skill ecosystem - malicious skills, supply chain compromise, over-privileged manifests, metadata attacks, weak isolation, update drift, scanning gaps, governance failures and cross-platform reuse - with real 2026 evidence.

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