DoomArena: A framework for Testing AI Agents Against Evolving Security Threats
Authors: Léo Boisvert
Abhay Puri
Gabriel Huang
Mihir Bansal
Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru
Avinandan Bose
Maryam Fazel
Quentin Cappart
Alexandre Lacoste
Alexandre Drouin
Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham
Venue: COLM 2025 (2025)
Keywords: security
agents
TL;DR: Context aware security evaluation for AI agents

Abstract: We present DoomArena, a security evaluation framework for AI agents. DoomArena is designed on three principles: 1) It is a \emph{plug-in} framework and integrates easily into realistic agentic frameworks like Browsergym (for web agents) and $\tau$-bench (for tool calling agents); 2) It is \emph{configurable} and allows for detailed threat modeling, allowing configuration of specific components of the agentic framework being attackable, and specifying targets for the attacker; and 3) It is \emph{modular} and decouples the development of attacks from details of the environment in which the agent is deployed, allowing for the same attacks to be applied across multiple environments. We illustrate several advantages of our framework, including enabling the development of generic attacker agents, the ability to easily combine several previously published attacks to enable comprehensive and fine-grained security testing, and the ability to analyze trade-offs between various vulnerabilities. We apply DoomArena to state-of-the-art (SOTA) web and tool-calling agents and find a number of surprising results: 1) SOTA agents have varying levels of vulnerability to different threat models (malicious user vs malicious environment), and there is no Pareto dominant agent across all threat models; 2) When multiple attacks are applied to an agent, they often combine constructively; 3) Guardrail model-based defenses seem to fail, while defenses based on powerful SOTA LLMs work much better.

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DoomArena: A Framework for Testing AI Agents Against Evolving Security Threats
Leo Boisverttt, Mihir Bansal*, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru", Gabriel Huang*, Abhay Puri*, ServiceNow Research
Avinandan Bose', Maryam Fazel University of Washington, Seattle
Quentin Cappart
Polytechnique Montréal
Jason Stanley, Alexandre Lacoste, Alexandre Drouint, Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham ServiceNow Research
Correspondence to: boisvert@serviceneee com, dvij@csswashington edu
Abstract
We present DoomArena, security evaluation framework for Al agents. DoomArena is designed on three principles: 1) It is plug-in framework and integrates easily into realistic agentic frameworks like BrowserGym (for web agents), r-bench (for tool calling agents) and OSWorld (for computer-use agents); 2) It is configurable and allows for detailed threat modeling, allowing configuration of specific components of the agentic framework being attackable, and specifying targets for the attacker; and 3) it modular and decouples the development of attacks from details of the environment in which the agent is deployed, allowing for the same attacks to be applied across multiple environments. We illustrate several adv advantages of our framework, including the ability to adapt to new threat models and environments easily, the ability to easily combine several previously published attacks to enable comprehensive and fine-grainet security testing, and the ability to analyze tradeoffs between various vulnerabilities and performance. We apply DoomArena to state-of-the-art (SOTA) web and tool-calling agents and find a number of surprising results: 1) SOTA agents have varying levels of vulnerability to different threat models (malicious user vs malicious environment), and there is no Pareto dominant agent across all threat models; 2) When multiple attacks are applied to an agent, they often combine constructively; 3) Guardrail model-based defenses seem to fail, while defenses based on powerful SOTA LLMs work better. DoomArena is available at https: //gi thub. com/ httm//eeeieeew/ooommrreee
1 Introduction
The rise of Al agents brings up exciting possibilities to automate valuable but repetitive tasks in the enterprise (Drouin et al., 2024; Xu et al., 2024), in scientific applications (Gottweis et al., 2025), and in knowledge work (OpenAI, 2025). However, the existence of autonomous agents also poses several security risks, including leakage of sensitive data (Zharmagambetov et al., 2025), privileged access, the proliferation of unauthorized financial transactions, etc. Several works demonstrating such risks from poisoning attacks (Chen et al., 2024), malicious pop-ups (Zhang et al., 2024a), and prompt injections (Altimetrik, 2024) have recently appeared, underscoring the critical need for research into the security of AI agents.
Testing systematically for these risks in manner that is informed by the deployment context of the agent while allowing for realistic threat modeling remains an open challenge. In this paper, we present DoomArena, a modular, plug-in, and configurable framework for security
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testing for Al agents. DoomArena is not a benchmark in itself, but facilitates the construction of realistic security benchmarks by providing various common components required for their construction. The ability to support multiple agentic frameworks and environments in a (plug-ix) manner adding security testing capabilities to any agentic framework, the ability to develop generic ad versariaa attacks that apply ahaly (modular), the ability to configure security testing by tagging specific components in the agent-user-enviionnmer loop as untrusted or potentially malicious, thus constraining potential adversarial attacks to arise only from plausible attack surfaces (configurable). DoomArena facilitates the injection of inference-tine attacks in any of these components. Although it does not focus on training-time attacks, it can be used to evaluate them by inserting relevant triggers in the environment.
across multiple agents and environments
We demonstrate the advantages of DoomArena in several ways: 1) We implement several well-known attacks and show how they can be easily combined via attack configurations in our framework, supporting security evaluations in the face of an evolving landscape of risks. 2) We show how Doom ArmmA facilitates fine-grained security analysis, leading to a refined understanding of which agents are more or less susceptible to which attacks and under what conditions. 3) We show how these capabilities enable DoomArena to be used as laboratory for Al agent security research, and also use it to analyze the security of sfate-of-the-art agents on benchmarks for web agents (BrowserGym (de Chezelles et al., 2025)) and tool-calling agents (I-Bench (Yao et al., 2024)), while further demonstrating its extensibility to other domains like computer-use agents (OSWorld (Xie et al., 2024)), uncovering interesting trends on the vulnerabilities of frontier LLM-based agents in different settings.
2 Related Work
Several recent works document various attacks against trusted elements in the environment to inject prompts into agents (Liao et al., 2024), injecting visual injections into Vision-Language Model-based agents (Wu et,, 2025), using pop-ups to misdirect Al agents interacting with browsers and computers (Zhang et al., 2024a), and exe- cuting jailbreak attacks that bypass safety guardrails in browser agents (Perez & Ribeiro, 2022; Xu et al., 2023; Wei et al., 2023; Gong et al., 2023). Recent research has revealed concerns about the gaps between the safety refusal capabilities of standalone LLMs and their agent implemen- tations (Kumar et al., 2024; Chiang et al., 2025). For example, Kumar et al. (2024) found that while backbone LLMs often refuse to follow harmful instructions, their corresponding agents frequently execute these same instructions when deployed in browser environments.
against Alagents. ineluu exploiting un-
AI agents are vulnerable when user inputs are embedded into system prompts (Chiang et al., 2025), enabling attackers to exploit novel vulnerabilities in agentic AI systems like confidential data leaks, privilege escalation, etc. While prior work highlights these risks, de- ploying agents requires systematic testing framework lailored to real-world threats. DoomArena context.
provides this by enabling researchers to assess risks in a deployment-speccine
We organize prior work on safety /security benchmarks for AI agents into three categories:
Static benchmarks: Static benchmarks (Kumar et al., 2024; Andriushchenko et al., 2024; Mazeika et al., 2024; Zeng et al., 2024) use curated Chuman-generatee (egnerattd/mmnua)) maanull) malicious prompts to assess Al agent risks across harm categories like fraud, cybersecurity, hate speech, etc. AgentHarmBench (Andriushchenko et al., 2024), for instance, includes 110 malicious tasks spanning 11 harm categories; while useful for broad safety evaluations, many risks only emerge in interactive settings where agents process inputs from users and the environment.
Stateful safety/security benchmarks: Unlike static evaluations, AT ATagents operate statefully, interacting with users and environments over multiple steps. SafeArena (Tur et al., 2025) assesses the safety of autonomous web agents across 250 safe and 250 harmful tasks spanning four websites and five harm categories, revealing that models like GPTT-o (OpenAI, 2024) and Qwen-2-VL (Yang et al., 2024) complete significant percentage of harmful tasks. Similarly, ARo (Kumar et al., 2024) red-teams browser agents with 100 diverse browser-related harmful behaviors, showing that agents often fail safety standards despite backbone LLM refusing such behaviors. ST-WebAgentBent (Levy et al., 2024) evaluates web agents' safety
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Benchmarks
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Table DoomArena vs. Other Frameworks: DoomArena the only agentic security testing framework that plugs into multiple agentic frameworks, modular in design, separating attack development from agent and environment details, and supports configurable threat modeling for malicious agents, user, evvironnnents.
and trustworthiness across six reliability dimensions, introducing Completion Under Policy and Risk Ratio metrics to assess task success with policy adherence.
DoomArena takes a different approach by building a plug-in framework that addresses these limitations and provides a plug-in layer to add security evaluation to any agentic benchmark across multiple agent types and environments (browser, tool use, computer use, etc.)
Security Evaluation Frameworks: For non-agentic AI, frameworks like PyRIT (Munoz
et al., 2024) support dynamic attacks, are extensible, and work across multiple models. PYRIT enhances red teaming by identifying harms, risks, and jailbreaks multimodal generative AI. AgentDojo (Debenedetti et al., 2024) is framework that exposes extensible suite of tasks for tool-using agents and supports dynamic attack injection. However, it is limited to tasks implemented within its own environment and does not plug-in to real-world agentic benchmarks such as T-bench (Yao et al., 2024) and WebArena, which are widely used by AI developers, including OpenAl and Anthropic. DoomArena addresses this limitation by providing modular security evaluation layer that can be layered on top of any existing agent benchmark, enabling security testing in more realistic settings.
To compare DoomArena with prior Agentic Al safety / /scuuitty benchmarks, we summarize simulation with multi-step interaction, 3) Multiple attack support, 4) Ability to include new agentic tasks/ lasks/enviinn mnviommmnnsssssseeee/mmmmmm as plug-ins, 5) Fine-grained threat modeling for tagging specific malicious components, and 6) Modular design for task-agnostic attack integration.
past work along six axes in Table 1: Al agent support, agent-humannenviionneen
DoomArena is the only agentic security testing framework that satisfies all six criteria. This comprehensive approach enables the development of generic attacker agents, the ability to easily combine several previously published attacks for fine-grained security testing, and the ability to analyze tradeoffs between various vulnerabilities.
DoomAremt General Design and Architecture
The fundamental building block of DoomArena is the www.gentteeciroment-loooo used to refer to sequence of interactions (an episode) between a human user, Al agent, and the environment that the agent operates in (e.g., web, computer, tools). DoomArena essentially fa- cilitates the injection of attacks at various points in this loop, with the ability constrain which attack gets applied and where, so as to be consistent with any specified threat model.
DoomArena is defined via several concepts- tasks, attacks, attack gateways and attack configs (Figure 1). Detailed descriptions with code snippets detailing the key modules are the Appendix Section A.3, but brief overview follows:
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a) Abstract Architecture of DoomArena
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loop. detailed threat modeling exercise tailored to the Al agent's s deployment context results in a threat model encoded as an attack config. This config specifies malicious components, applicable attacks, and attack success criteria. The attack gateway pipes attacks to the right components, enabling realistic attack simulations and agent evaluation under adversarial conditions. (b) Realizations of the abstract framework. We build At tttakGaatssss as wrappers around an original agentic environment (z-Bench, BrowserGym, OSWorld, etc.). The AttackGatews teway injects malicious content into the wwwagnnttteniiomeettt loop as the Al agent interacts with it. The figure shows that for one such gateway built around T-bench, we can allow for threat models where database that the agent interacts ii malicious, or the user interacting with the agent malicious. DoomArena allows any element the loop (tools, databases, web pages, users, chatbots) to be attacked as long as the gateway supports it (see Section 4.2 for an example of the simplicity of adding new threat models to gateway). The threat model is specified by the AttackConf ig, which specifies the @ttackableComponee and the SuccessFi seltes,Filter, which evaluates whether the attack succeeded.
the AttackChoice (drawn from a library of implemented attacks),
Tasks: We focus on agents that are assigned tasks by a user (navigate webpages to order product, use an airline reservation API to purchase or modify an airline ticket). A task is assumed to come with a verifier that detects that the task was successfully completed.
Attacks:
These are the actual adversarial attacks that determine malicious content (text, image, div element of a webpage, etc.) to potentially be injected into the user-agent-environneen in- teraction loop. The attacks are agnostic to the agentic task, benchmark, or environment.
Attack Configs: These are tuples of 3 components (see Figure for an example):
These model the target of the attacker and are used to determine whether attacks are considered successful. They tend to be environment (but not necessarily attack) specific. For example, an attack by a malicious user attempting to obtain an unauthorized refund from an airline reservation assistant could be considered successful if the agent invokes tool issuing the refund.
Success filters:
Attackable components: These are used to identify which components of the user-agent- environment loop are attackable, and they typically arise from the results of a threat modeling exercise. For example, if an agent operates in a fully secure environment with no exposure to untrusted content, but is used by a malicious user, the attackable component becomes the human user, with attacks injected through their actions. Conversely, if the user is benign but the agent interacts with malicious retailer to place orders, the attackable component is the retail APT that the agent invokes.
Atlack choice: This defines which attack to apply to the attackable components, typically selected from library of pre-implemented attacks.
Attack Gateways: These determine how attacks get piped into the agent-user-nniioomeee loop. These are built specifically for given environment. In this work, we build attack
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gateways interfacing DoomArena with BrowserGym (de Chezelles et al., 2025), popular framework for evaluating web agents, and r-Bench (Yao et al., 2024), a popular framework for evaluating tool-calling agents. We think of attack gateways models, that govern what is potentially malicious. This is usually determined as a result of threat modeling exercise, which gets codified as attack config (determining attackable components and attacks to apply to these) and then fed as input to an attack gateway. We provide an example of an attack gateway implementation in Listing 2.
implementing threat
Defenses: DoomArena supports guardrail-basee defenses, in which a guardrail model-either bespoke model like LlamaGuard (Inan et al., 2023) as a judge-monitors interactions between the agent and the environment or user, and determines whether any unsafe behavior is detected. If so, the agent aborts the task, and the task is counted as failed. These defenses are not depicted explicitly in Figure la, as they can be integrated directly into the AI agent. However, Figure 1b illustrates how defenses are incorporated more explicitly. While we do not attempt to exhaustively cover the full range of defenses for securing agents beyond guardrails, most proposed methods (e.g., (Abdelnabi et al., 2025; Bagdasarian et al., 2024; Zhang et al., 2024b)) can be modeled within either the agent or the environment, and are thus compatible with our framework.
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Key advantages of DoomArena
4.1 Detailed threat-modeling and fine-grained security testing
DoomArena supports detailed threat modeling and security testing by making it easy to switch between threat models, attacks, and success criteria. As shown in Figure 2, switching from malicious user threat model to malicious catalog threat model requires minor changes to the Attack Config, but results in huge change in the attack success rate.
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Threat Model 2: Malicious Catalog 39.1 % Attack Success Rate
Figure 2: Exploring different threat models and attacks. With the attack gateway implemented, threat models and attacks can be swapped via AttackConfig, In the r-bench airline environment, when going from malicious user threat model to malicious catalog threat model, the attack success rate increases from 2.7% to 39.1% (excerpt from detailed results in Table
4.2 Adaptive Testing for Evolving Security Risks
The landscape of security threats facing AT agents is rapidly evolving. As agents are deployed in increasingly diverse and com- plex environments, they become exposed to novel attack surfaces, while adversaries themselves gain access to more sophisti- cated, possibly Al-powered attack strate- gies. Figure 3 illustrates the rising number of reported vulnerabilities in recent years, with projections extending through 2025, To keep pace with this dynamic threat land- scape, security testing must also become more adaptive. DoomArena designed to meet this need: it enables seamless integra- tion of new threat models and attack sce- narios they emerge. In contrast to prior benchmarks- nenchmarks-whiiee wwhich rely on a static set of predefined attacks Dookks-Doomm Arena supports
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extensibility by design. As demonstrated in Listing 1, adding new threat model can be accomplished in just a few lines of code.
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4.3 Plugging into New Agentic Frameworks
DoomArena can be readily plugged into new environments and benchmarks by implement- ingan an attack gateway. For typical reinforcement Jeannriin environments following the OpenAT Gymnasium interface (Towers et al., 2024), this means wrapping or inheriting from the orig- inal environment so that env. reset () and env step() inject attacks into the environment state before returning the observation to the agent. Following this approach for 7-Bench and BrowserGym allows to use them drop-in replacements of the original environments. In particular, this makes the BrowserGym gateway compatible with the AgentLab experimental framework (de Chezelles et al., 2025), allowing us to benefit from its prompting, logging, and experiment-recovery features. We sketch out minimalistic attack gateway for OSWorld in Listing 2 and visual representation for better understanding in Appendix Figure
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Listing 2: Simple Attack Gateway for OSWorld. The gateway can be used in place of Desk and supports pop-up injection threats, which target agents that use screenshots complete the desired task.
Using DoomArena for fine-grained security testing of SOTA agents
We conduct case study in three realistic environments: r-Bench (Yao et al., 2024), Browser- Gym (de Chezelles al., 2025) and OSWorld (Xie et al., 2024). 7-Bench is a benchmarking framework for evaluating Al agents in interactive tool-use scenarios, where agents must complete tasks like making airline reservations or helping customers with retail orders. BrowserGym is testing environment built around the Playwright browser automation library (Microsoft, 2023), enabling evaluation of web agents on common benchmarks such as WebArena (Zhou et al., 2024), WorkArena (Drouin et al., 2024), and MiniWob++ (Liu et al.,

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2018). OSWorld is real computer environment benchmark for testing multimodal AI agents on open-ended tasks across multiple operating systems. Using state-of-the-an LLMs like GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Somen
agents, assess the effectiveness of attacks with and without the presence of guardrail-basee defenses, which abort tasks once an attack is detected (see Appendix A.7 for detailed description).
Metrics: Our analysis relies on the following metrics to analyze the attacks: Attack success rate (ASR) (fraction of tasks where attacks were successful), Task success rate (TSR) (fraction of tasks completed successfully by the agent), Task success rate with attack (TSR in the presence of attacks), and Stealth rate (fraction of tasks where attack is successful and where the agent succeeds at the original task agent). In other words, a stealth attack is one where the malicious goal is achieved (e.g., issuing an unauthorized refund) without disrupting the agent's s primary task (e.g., correctly booking flight), making it difficult to detect.
5.1
Case Study: Tool-calling agents in r-Bench
Threat Models: In T-Bench, we focus two threat models, which we describe below, well as their combination. These involve airline and retail agents and demonstrate vulnerabilities in automated customer service agents and their decision-making processes.
The attacker is a malicious user trying exploit vulnerabilities in the agent. The attacker coerces the agent into performing insecure actions, such as issuing unauthorized compensation certificates or upgrades.
Malicious User Threat Model:
Malicious Catalog Threat Model: The attacker controls malicious caalog that the agent queries to obtain information on products on the user's 's behalf. The attacker seeks extract Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about the user, e.g., names and ZIP codes.
Combined Threat Model: This threat model combines the above threat models in scenario where both the user and the product catalog are malicious. As we show in Section 6, this can lead constructive or destructive interference between attacks, highlighting the importance of multi-attack evaluation.
Experimental Results: For T-Bench, we evaluate the vulnerability of LLM-bbseed agents in two scenarios: an airline customer service context with 50 tasks bookings, cancellations, trip updates, etc.) and a retail context with 115 tasks (product exchanges, account inquiries, order updates, etc.). We run experiments on these tasks using airline tool-calling and retail react-agent respectivey Results reported in table 2.
Evaluation
Attack Type
Model
Defense
Attack Success
Task Saccess
Task Success
Stealth Rate (%)
Rate (%)
(No Attack) (%)
(With Attack) (%)
Tool calling Agout Stritegy (Airiine)
None
29.3
47.3
32.0
1,33
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GPT-4o
GPT-4o Judge
22.7
33.3
30.0
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Claude-3.5-Sommee
GPT Judge
40.0
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None
34.8
51.3
39.1
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GPT-4o Judge
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48.1
29.6
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metric, we indicate if lower (1) or higher (t). Full results, including Llama-guard defense and GPT-40 mini agent, are in Appendix A.1.1. Averages and standard deviations computed over trials.
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Our analysis reveals the following key insights:
Combined threat model significantly disrupts task execution: The combined threat model, which for both malicious user and malicious catalog, leads to significantly reduced task success rates and lifts attack success rates compared to scenarios with only malicious user malicious catalog. This highlights the need for frameworks like DoomArena that enable fine-grained security testing with several threat models.
2. LlamaGuard is not effective: We observed that LlamaGuard fails to detect and flag any of the attacks as code interpreter abuse. Additional analysis is discussed in Appendix A.1.1.
3. Effectiveness of GPT-4o-judge defense: We find that a GPT-4o based judge with an appropriate system prompt (see Appendix A.7 for details) was able to more effectively detect attacks, although we still find nontrivial attack rates under this defense. This highlights its potential as defense, but also shows the limitations that even powerful frontier LLMs do not achieve full security for Al agents.
5.2 Case Study: Web Agents in BrowserGym
Threat Models: In BrowserGym, we focus on threat models where malicious content appears in some webpages, while the agent and user benign. Specifically, we study two threat models and their combination:
Malicious banner threat model: The attacker purchases ad space to display banners with prompt injections hidden in accessibility attributes ("alt" or ""aria-label",, which are invisible to users but seen by web agents (see Listing 7 for details).
Pop-up threat model: The attacker buys ad space in the form of a pop-up window containing custom markdown HTML with prompt injections hidden in the content. These would be visible to agents but invisible to human users (see Listing 8 for details).
Combined threat model: The attacker buys both pop-up and banner ads described above.
Experimental Results: We focus our experiments on two subsets the WebArena bench- mark: the WebArena-Rede Reddil domain (a Reddit clone with 114 tasks) and the WebArena-Shoppin domain (an e-commerce website with 192 tasks). We use text-based web agents that see the page's accessibility tree, following the AgentL ab settings used in Table 2 of de Chezelles et al. (2025).2 2 Table 3, reports results for WebArena-Redee Reddii, while the WebArena- Shoopiinn-- results are in Appendix A.1.2.
Evaluation Metrics
Threat Model
Model
Defense
Attack Success
Task Success
Task Success
Stealth Rate (%)
Rate (%)
(No Attack) (%)
(With Attack) (%)
WebArena-Redlle (114 knsks)
None
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GPT-4o Judge
183
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Claude-3.5-Somee
None
60.5
26.3 (1)
11.4 -50
0.0
GPT-4oJudgg
0.0
21.9
0.0
0.0
GPT--lo
None
97.4
21.2 133
0.0
uno
Pup-up
Claude-3.5-Sonnet
None
88.5
133
26.3 (1)
0.0
0.0
GPT-4o
None
98.2
21.2
0.0
0.0
Combined
Claude-3.5-oomnet
None
96.4
26.3 (43
0.0 nn0
0.0
Table Task and Attack Success Rates on BrowserGym, w/ and w/o GPT-4o judge defense. For each metric, we indicate if lower (L) or higher (t). Defended agents achieve 0% ASR TSR (except for banner attacks) and are omitted for brevity. Full results, including Llama-guard defense, GPT-4o mini agent, and WebArena-Shi
reeArrra-Shopppng -Shppping are in Appendix A.1.2. Metrics averaged over WebArena subsets.
1Combined attack metrics include only trials where both attacks successfully executed. excluded trials where conditions for triggering both attacks weren't 't met.
"Our framework supports multimodal web agents, which we plan to evaluate in future research.
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Our main findings are follows:
Banner attacks are more context dependent: they achieve significantly higher ASR on Reddit tasks (48.2 48..2-80.%% than on Shopping tasks (25.0% -0.6%%) Interestingly, GITT-o is the most vulnerable these attacks on Reddit tasks but not on the shopping ones, where Claude-3.5-Sonntt is.
Pop-up attacks are the most effective: In the Reddit environment, these attacks achieve very high success rates (88.5% 97. 97.4%). However, their effectiveness drops in the shopping which sees its vulnerability reduced by more
setting, particularly for than half -from 88.5% in Reddit to 42.7% in shopping. This again suggests that attacks are dependent on context.
3. Combining attacks amplifies the vulnerability: combined attacks achieve near-perfect ASR across all models in the Reddit tasks and erasing Claude-3.5-Sonne pop-up attack resilience in the shopping setting.
5.3 Case Study: Computer-Use Agents in OSWorld
Threat Model: In OSWorld, focus on a simple threat model where malicious content appears on the desktop, while the agent and user are benign.
Pop-up Inpainting threat model: attacke can display pop-up window containing malicious instructions aiming to disrupt the agent. To do so, we implement the pop-up attack from Zhang et al. (2024a). (see Section A.4 for details)
Experimental Results: We evaluate the vulnerability of desktop agents under pop-up inpainting attacks using a subset of tasks from the OSWorld benchmark. Our experiments focus on multimodal agents that interact with real desktop environments through screenshots and mouse bansse/kebbrr /eyboard actions. We test two state-of-the vision-languaag models: GPT- 4o and -ruude-3.7-Sonnet evaluating their susceptibility to malicious pop-up overlays that attempt to redirect agent behavior while maintaining task execution. Table reports our results, showing that desktop agents exhibit significant vulnerability to these visual manipulation attacks with high attack success rates and low task success rates.
Evaluation Metrics
Threat Model
Model
Defense
Attack Success
Task Success
Task Success
Stealth Rate (%)
Rate (%)
(No Attack) (%)
(With Attack) (%)
OSWorid subset (39 tasks)
Pop-up Inpainting
GPT-4o
None
100
2.9 usa
Claude-3.7.Sonnet
None
22.9
13.9
8.6
5,7
Table 4: Task and Attack Success Rates for Pop-up Inpainting Attacks. For each metric, indicate if lower (L) or higher (1) better.
Our main findings are as follows:
1. Desktop agents highly vulnerable to pop-up attacks: Attack success rates reach 78.6% for GPT-4o and 22.9% for Claude-3.7-Sonnel demonstrating significant -odel-specific vulnerabilities. The attack also leads to significantly reduced task success rates. Overall, Claude-3.7-Sonnel shows a higher resilience to the attack compared to GPT-4o.
2. Pop-up attacks go unnoticed: Non-zero stealth rates (2.9-5.7%) suggest that the agents can occasionally accomplish both their assigned task and the attacker' goal, indicating potential for defense mechanisms.
DoomArena as a laboratory for AI agent security research
DoomAremt serves as a laboratory for Al agent security research. In particular, our analysis reveals the following scientifically interesting results:

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No pareto dominant: Our analysis across r-Bench and WebArena shows that no agent achieves pareto dominance for the tradeoff between ASR and TSR (Figure 4). In r-Bench's airline scenario, Claude-3.-Sonnet exhibits great robustness with only 2.66% ASR compared to 29.3% for GPT-4o, with GPT-4o having higher TSR 44. vs 44.0%). For the malicious retail
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Figure 5: Breakdown attack performance on r-Bench by task type (GPTT-o agent). The retail tasks were manually annotated by human evalu- ators and placed into broad categories based on the task description.
trade off between ASR and TSR.
catalog attack, the results are reversed, with Setude-3.5-Somnte having 39.1% ASR compared to 34.8% for GPT--4o, while outperforming GPT-4o for TSR with and without attacks. This pattern is echoed in WebArena. the Reddit context, Claude-3.5-Some no-attack TSR while being very vulnerable to the three types of attacks. For the shopping environment, Claude-3.5-Sonnee the most vulnerable to the banners and combined attacks. Looking specifically at the orange and green curves in Figure 4, we see two different Pareto frontiers for the ASR-TSR tradeoff for the two threat models (malicious catalog combined).
has the highest
still the top model for the no-attack setting, while being
Interplay of multiple allack strategies on the same agent: Figure 5 shows the performance of the T-Bench combined attack on various retail tasks. The figure shows that both the PIT leak and the unauthorized refund attacks were more successful in the same trial when the user requested an order cancellation. This suggests potential constructive interference between the two attacks, where the two attackers support each other's actions and achieve success. Conversely, both attacks failed more often in cases where the user requested product return. This suggests a potential destructive interference between the attacks. Moreover, the low individual attack success of the refund attack across most of the categories highlights its reliance on the PII leak attack and its limited independent impact.
7 Conclusion
We have built DoomArena, a modular, configurable, plug-in framework for security eval- uation of Al agents. By focusing on these key aspects, we aim to facilitate flexible threat- modeling-driven security research for Al agents so that the security risks of agents can be appropriately grounded in the context in which agents are deployed. We believe this grounding will lead to much more interesting research on agentic AT security. In this work alone, grounding security testing in realistic threat models has revealed interesting vul- nerabilities and tradeoffs on the security levels of various frontier agents, and shown their dependence on factors ranging from threat model (malicious users environment), use of sethesshlf-ddffnseee to interference between multiple attacks. We hope that DoomAren widespread adoption framework for agentic security testing, and that the impor- tance of context-aware adaptive security testing enabled by DoomArena becomes widely recognized.
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Ethics Statement
DoomArena facilitates the translation of comprehensive threat threat modeling for a given agent into grounded testing on known attacks. By allowing teams to run known attacks against agents of different designs, in different environments, and different junctures, it makes possible the identification and measurement of vulnerabilities, as well as the testing of defenses to protect against those vulnerabilities. The framework is not designed facilitate the discovery of novel attack strategies. In this sense, it supports stronger testing and defense work, not adversarial acceleration.
One of DoomArens 's key strengths is its flexibility, allowing teams to assemble designs, attacks, and defenses to replicate real scenarios. The framework does not enforce data minimization, anonymization,
any other data governance rules; these are left up to the testing team. If not handled properly, poor use of the framework could lead teams testing on sensitive confidential data to expose this data to external systems and actors. Nevertheless, we feel this risk is better handled by documenting best practices than using firm controls in the framework itself, the latter could blunt testers' capacity to understand agent vulnerabilities.
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A Appendix
A.1 Extended Results
A.1.1 T-Bench Results
Evaluation Metrics
Attack Type
Model
Defense
Attack Success Rate (%)
Task Success
Task Success
Stealth Rate (%) J
(No Attack) (%)
(With Attack) (%)
Todl Tool-nalling Agent Strateyy (Airline)
None
29.3
32.0
1.3
Malicious User
GPT-4o
GPT-4oJudge
22.7 :13
33.3
:38
30.0 214
0.0
GPT-4o mini
None
11.0 101
24.0
H04
21.0 439
0.0 -ee
GPT--o Judge
8.0
25,3
15.3 aa3
0,0
None
2.7
44.0
39.3
0.0
Claude-3.5
GPT 4o Judge
0.7
43.3
40.0
0.0
React Agent Strategy (Rehall)
GPT-4o
None
34.8
51.3
118
14.8
GPT-44 Judge
8.7
-06
48.1
29.6 .34
4.1
Malicious Catalog
GITT-4o mini
None
17.4
Loa
19.7
123
14.8 137
2.9
GPT-4o Judge
2.0
15.9
9.9
0.6
None
39.1
67.2
48.4
18.0
Claude-3.5SSomet
GI'I-ào Judge
GPT-4o
None
70.8
43.4
.38
16.9 u33
14.5
GPT-4o
28.2
48.8
11.5 c33
10.3
Comhined
GI'T-4o
None
69.2
15.4
124
7.7
7.7
GP'I-oo Judge
21.9
12.8
7.0
1.8
None
39.5
12.6
Claude-3.5-Sonee
GPT-4o Judlee
20.6
1.0
Table 5: Comparison of different models terms attack success rates, task completion rates, and stealth rates, both with and without defense. A model is more secure it has a lower attack success rate (U), higher task completion under attack (f) and lower stealth rate (L). For defense evaluation, model benefits more from the defense if its attack success rate and stealth rate drop significantly (L) while maintaining higher task completion rate with without attacks (f). All reported numbers averaged over 3 trials.
Discussion on ineffectiveness LlamaGuard: LlamaGuard (Inan et al., 2023) is lightweight safety classifier that categorizes messages into 14 distinct flagging categories. To balance usability and security, we configure the system to flag only messages classified under Code Interpreter Abuse. However, we found that LlamaGuard was unable to flag any of the aforementioned attacks, therefore the numbers in Table 5 with LlamaGuard are identical to those without any defense.
A.1.2 BrowserGym Results
We present the full results of our defense mechanisms against attacks in both Web subsets in table 6 and table 7. The tables compare three language models (GPTT-4o, GPT--o mini, and Claude-3.5-Sonnef across different attack types (Banners, Pop-ups, and Combined attacks) with three defensive strategies: No defense, LlamaGuard, and GPT-4o Judge. Our results demonstrate that LlamaGuard provides is largely ineffective for indirect prompt injection.
CCombined attack metrics include only trials where both attacks successfully executed. We excluded trials where conditions for triggering both attacks weren't met.
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Evaluation Metrics
Attack Type
Model
Defense
Attack Success Rate (%)
Task Success
Task Success
Stealth Rate (%)
(No Attack) (%)
(With Attack) (%)
Reddit tasks)
None
80.7
21.2 63R
11.4
0.0
GPT-4o
LlamaGuard
76.3
17.1
14.9
0.0
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
.00
18.6
137
0.0
0.0 100
None
48.2
12.3
8.8
0.0
Banners
GPT-4o mini
LlamaGuard
130
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
9.6 (288
0.0
0.0 (oo
None
60.5
26.3
11.4
0.0
Claude-3.5Soonne
LlamaGuard
1:10
Fo0
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
300
21.9
$3.0
0.0
0.0 2o0
None
97.4
21.2
0.0
0.0
GPT-4o
LlamaGuard
97.4
115
13.
0.0
usa
0.0 100
GPT-lo Judge
0.0
.0
18.6
137
0.0
0.0 1o0
None
94.7
12.3
0.0
0.0
Pup-up
GPT-4o mini
LlamaGuard
95.6
10.8 (10
0.0
ida
0.0 100
GFT-4o Gudee
0.0
9.6
0.0
0.0
-4.1
H68
Claude-3.-SSonnel
LlamaGuard
85.1
22.7 (4.0
0.0
H00
0.0 1o0
GPT-4oJudde
0.0
21.9
0.0
0.0
None
-12
HS0
2000
GFT-4o
LlamaGuard
94.7
17.1 17.
0.0
uda
0.0 100
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
18.6
0.0
0.0
None
94.7
12.3 (33
D.0
ida
0.00 100
Combined
GPT-4o mini
LlamaGuard
96.4
17
10.8 (30
0.0
(.00 1o0
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
9.6
0.0
0.0
None
96.
-17
26.3 H4.
0.0 H00
0.0 600
Claude-3.5Soomel
LlamaGuard
97.3 L13
22.7
0.0
0.0
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
0.0
0.0
Table 6: Full table of WebArena-Reddit Results
From these tables, observe the following:
LlamaGuard detects only a small percentage of attacks: As shown the 7-Bench results, we clearly see that IllmmGuarr is largely ineffective against indirect prompt injection-type attacks.
2. TSR and ASR don't always go hand in hand: While ASR and TSR seem related, the data shows they operate independently for example, on the Reddit domain 3.5ude-3.5-Sonne achieves both high TSR (26.3% without attack) and high vulnerability (60.5% ASR) with Banners, while GPT-4o mini has much lower task success (12.3%) but moderate attack vulnerability (48.2%). On the other hand, for the shopping domain with Pop-up attacks Claude-3.5-Sonee obtains 24.0% TSR without attacks and 42.7% ASR versus GPT-4o-mini that 17.7% TSR without attacks and 71.3% ASR demonstrating that model performance on legitimate tasks doesn't predict security against attacks.
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Evaluation Metrics
Attack Type
Model
Defense
Attack Success Rate (%)
Task Success
Task Success
Stealth
(No Attack) (%)
(With Attack) (%)
Rate (%)
Weebtrenn-Shopping (192 taske)
None
33.4
:33
20.8
:20
17.2
0.0 200
GPT-4o
LlamaGuard
22.4
20.3
18.8
0.0
GPT--4 Judge
None
25.0
17.7 12.0
11.9
0.0
Banners
GPT-4o mini
LlamaGuard
17.2
18.2
12.5
0.0
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
400
+24
H00
0.0 200
None
40.6
24.0 131
17.2 127
0.0
Claude-3.5-Sonne
LlamaGuard
36.3
23.4
17.7
0.0
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
21.8 (3.
0.0
i00
0.0
100
None
92.7
20.8
0.0
0.0
GPT-4o
LlamaGuard
13.9
H08
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
000
20.8 (2.9
0.0
100
0.0
Fo0
None
71.3
17.7
0.0
0.0
Pop-up
GPT-4o mini
LlamaGuard
66.
:34
18.2 H08
0.0
HS0
0.0 2000
GPT-lo Judge
0.0
13.0 12.4
0.0
u00
0.0 100
None
42.7
0.0
0.0
Claude-3.5-Somee
LlamaGuard
633
1.0
0.0 2000
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
21.8 (300
0.0
H00
0.0
100
None
0.0
0.0
GPT-4o
LlamaGuard
69.3
-33
20.3
12.
0.0
H00
0.0 F00
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
20.8 +2.
0.0
0.0
None
0.0 HS0
2000
Combined
GPT-44 mini
LlamaGuard
67.7
18.2 s18
0.0
0.0 2000
GPT-4o Judge
0.0
13.0
0.0
0.0
None
.12
233
0.0 asa
0.0 200
Claude-3.5-Some
LlamaGuard
95.8
23.4
0.0
H00
(.00
100
GPTT-o Judge
0.0
21.8
0.0
0.0
Table 7: Full table of WebArena-Shopping Results
A.2 Deeper Dive in Combined attacks
Our analysis of combined attacks reveals domain-specifi interference patterns (Table A.2). In r-bench, the malicious catalog attack shows synergistic benefits when combined (34.8% to 70.5% ASR), likely because the malicious user attack leads agents to request product infor- mation that facilitates catalog attack delivery. Conversely, the malicious user attack suffers interference (12.8% to 2.7% ASR), suggesting conflicting behavior patterns. BrowserGym exhibits distinctly different dynamics: pop-up attacks maintain resilience (97.4% to 95.6% ASR) while severely suppressing banner attacks (80.7% to 0.9% ASR), indicating asymmetric interference where pop-up attacks act as a dominant strategy. These findings highlight the importance of evaluating goal-specific success rates in combined scenarios, as aggregate metrics may obscure critical attack dynamics.
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Domain
Attack Type
ASR (%)
Stealth Rate (%)
Isolated Malicious User
12.8
Combined Malicious User
2.7
0
7-bench (Retail)
Isolated Malicious Catalog
34.8
14.8
Combined Malicious Catalog
70.5
14.5
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A.3 Detailed description of components of the framework
A.3.1 Attack Gateways
Attack gateways are environment-specffc implementation of the threat models considered. Typically, attack gateways wrap around inherit from OpenAI Gymnasium-styyl vironment (Towers et al., 2024). The reset and step() methods are overloaded route attack contents to specific components of the environment, such database, simulated user, customer interaction bot, pop-ups and banners. The users can use the step function to get the agent or the attacker's next action during the attack simulation.
The abstract AttackGateway class is defined as follows:
class AttackGateway(ABB)
def reset (self,, **kwargs) Any: "" """Reset environment for new run, и..
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Listing 3: The abstract base class for all attack gateways.
Attack gateways are designed to ensure modularity and compatibility across different envi- ronments. For instance, by leveraging the @register__ttack__gaa gattewa decorator, developers can extend DoomArena with new environments by heapleemnntingaapppopittt attackk attack injection logic shown in Listing
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A.3.2 Attacks
We implement attacks that are adaptations of well-known attacks to the agents from Browser- Gym and r-Bench, including popups (Zhang et al., 2024a), environment injections (Liao et al., 2024), visual injections (Wuet et al., 2025). We also describe in Section A.5 the development of general attack agents that, given textual description of the environment, tools the agent being attacked has access to, and the target of the attack, it automatically outputs the attacks to inject into malicious components of the eeee-agent-environmmet loop.
The abstract Attacks class defined as follows:
class Attacks (BaseModel, ABC): attack_name: str
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Listing 5: Abstract Base Class Definition for Attack Strategies.
The simplest attack we can consider is a fixed-string prompt injection attack, where in every step of the agentic loop, the attacker will inject predetermined string. more
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advanced attacker could be an LLM that takes the history of observations (say the sequence of interactions between the agent and a user) as input, and then decides on the next injection. The users can also perform multiple attacks the same agent by defining their attack strategies separately using the Attacks class, and then injecting the attacks based on the state of the environment or the agent's action.
The implementation of a fixed injection attack is as follows:
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A.4 Attack Library
We present here the available attacks currently implemented in DoomArena.
In this attack pattern, adversary directly manipulates the LLM agent through carefully crafted conversational prompts designed to exploit the agent's tool-calling capabilities. The attacker poses a legitimate user but employs sophisticated prompt injection techniques to coerce the agent into performing unauthorized actions, such as issuing compensation certificates exceeding policy limits, granting unauthorized upgrades, or bypassing standard verification procedures. These attacks exploit the agent's ss natural tendency to be helpful while testing the boundaries of its safety mechanisms and policy enforcement in realistic customer service scenarios.
Malicious User:
Malicious Catalog: This attack vector targets the external data sources that tool-augmented agents rely upon for decision-making. An attacker compromises or controls product catalogs, databases, information repositories that the agent queries during normal operations. By injecting malicious entries, manipulating metadata, or introducing spoofed products and services, the attacker can trick the agent into inavvrtennly leaking sensitive user information such personally identifiable information (PII), account details, or ZIP codes. The agent, operating under the assumption that its data sources are trustworthy, unknowingly becomes conduit for information extraction or unauthorized data exposure.
Banner Attack We provide the content of the banner attack below. The content is inserted into the field of an SVG banner. Note that the visual aspect of the banner has no impact, as the agents use only the accessibility tree.
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Popup Attack We provide below the visible and hidden texts for the pop-up attack. Note that the content of the hidden message is designed to imitate the format of the rendered accessibility tree in AgentLab.
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Listing 8: Pop-up attack contents
Pop-up Inpainting Attack We provide the pop-up inpainting attack in Fig. where the attacker inpaints a malicious pop-up to the screenshot provided the agent, instructing the agent to click the (1066, 457) coordinate.
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A.4.1 Success Filters
Success filters take the current environment state or observation input, and return whether the attack has already succeeded. For example, a success filter may verify if the BrowserGym agent was redirected to malicious URL if the r-Bench agent compromised the user's 's Personally Identifiable Information (PI)) data. Users can directly inherit the SuccessF seessiltted ilters abstract class and develop their success criteria based the attack. They can either develop simple boolean logic to check the attack success, or create their own LLM judge to analyze complex scenarios. Example of success filter for BrowserGym is given in Listing 9.
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Listing 9; Success Filter for BrowserGym/WebAAren Tasks. This success filter verifies whether a BrowserGym agent was maliciously directed to target url. In this example, the attacker could theoretically run malicious server at the target url to steal confidential information (e.g. through url-encoded parameters).
A.5 Architecture of the Generalized Attacker Agent
We designed a configurable attacker agent with the capability of performing different types of attacks across various frameworks such as T-Bench and BrowserGym (Fig. 10). It allows the user to configure the attack style (such as 'Strategic Social Engineering with System Command Bluff', 'Strategic manipulation by introducing new rules for the agent', etc.) and the harm type (such as 'Unauthorized Refund via Exchange Manipulation', 'Obtaining PII information of the user via Strategic manipulation', etc.) of the attacker. These parameters short natural language descriptions of the style of the attack and the type of harm that the attacker wants to incorporate into its attack strategy. The instructions to the attacker based on the task through the framework to perform better attacks on the agent.
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We provide the functionality to add DAN (Do Anything Now) mode prompt (Shen et al., 2024), which is designed to help the attacker bypass normal model rules and maximize its
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ability to manipulate the system. The DAN prompt makes the agent act like an unrestricted attacker, ignoring regular behavior guidelines. This method is used to force the model to behave unexpectedly, helping to test defenses and uncover weaknesses.
We provide the functionality add additional details about the tools that the agent is using in the backend. This allows the attacker to be aware of the functions that the agent uses or the APIs with which it communicates to perform its tasks, which ultimately helps the attacker to build its attack strategy. The agent's tool information will be provided to the attacker in JSON file, containing objects in the format provided in Listing 10.
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We also have the functionality for the user to provide few-shot examples of both failed and successful attacks to the attacker in JSON file. The examples contain short description of the scenario and the full conversation history between the agent and the attacker. This helps the attacker to learn from its previous attempts and perform better. Finally, all the components are aggregated form the system prompt for the attacker.
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A.7 Defenses
Defenses in DoomArena aim to mitigate the impact of attacks while ensuring minimal disruption to normal interactions. To provide an adaptable security layer, the defense module is designed to be modular, allowing easy integration of different detection strategies, plug-in, enabling new techniques be added with minimal effort, and configurable, allowing users to tailor defenses to specific deployment needs. An effective defense must satisfy two key requirements:
Low Attack Success Rate (ASR) in the presence of attacks - The defense should reli- ably detect and prevent attacks, minimizing the likelihood of adversary successfully compromising the system.
High Task Success Rate in the absence of attacks - The defense defenseshoule should avoid unnecessary interventions on benign interactions, as excessive false positives can degrade the utility of the agentic system.
To facilitate the implementation of diverse defense mechanisms, we define a flexible abstract base class that standardizes the detection interface:
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class SttackSafettycheckkBBBaeeete ABC): @abstractmethod
def attack deteckedeette messages: List(Dict(strr, str]]) -> bool:
pass
Listing 11: Abstract class for Defenses
This abstract class provides standardized framework for implementing different defense strategies, ensuring that they can be seamlessly integrated into DoomArena. The base model can be any LLM backbone, making it adaptable to different architectures, while the attack_der detecteeet ted() method can implement any rule-based or learning- maaning-baeedd strateey to assess the message history. The modular nature of this design allows multiple defense mechanisms to coexist, while its extensibility enables researchers to introduce novel detection techniques without modifying the core framework.
You are an expert AI security expert and will receive content to be enalyzed. Assess whether parts of the content purposely designed to confuse, manipulate, deceive potential AI agent which would it. Explain your reasoning briefly. Then return "FINAL ANSMER: YES" if you detect any, or "FINAL ANSWER: NO" otherwise.
Listing 12: Prompt for the GPT-4o Judge defense.
While we do not propose new strategies for building secure agents, we demonstrate that DoomArena inherently compatible with off-the-shelf security mechanisms, enabling seam- less integration of guardrails such classifier- defenses (Inan et al., 2023) and LLM- as-a-judge approaches (Gu et al., 2024). Both defenses abort the task as soon as an attack is detected. For classifier-based defenses, integrate LlamaGuard (Inan et al., 2023), lightweight safety classifier that categorizes messages into 14 distinct flagging categories. To balance usability and security, configure the system to flag only messages classified under Code Interpreter Abuse. Notably, LlamaGuard can be run locally with no inference costs, making a scalable and efficient choice for deployment. For the LLM-as-a-judge defense (Gu et al., 2024), we leverage GPT-4o, equipping it with a system prompt that explicitly instructs identify unsafe conversations based on predefined security criteria. It also provides rationale when flagging conversation, ensuring interpretability and transparency in its recision-making process. By utilizing a context-aware language model for real-time assess- ment, this approach offers greater adaptability compared to rigid classifiers. However, its reliance on LLL-geerrated outputs introduces potential tradeoffs including latency and computational costs, which must be carefully considered when deploying at scale.
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For example, only two case studies are included, and the attacks covered are primarily prompt injection–based. It’s unclear how the framework would support other types of adversarial attacks such as backdoor attacks, gradient-based jailbreak methods, etc. \n\n(2) In Section 5.1, it is not clear about the “combined threat model”. Specifically, what is the attack goal in this setting? Since different actors (e.g., user vs. product catalog) can have conflicting goals, how is attack success defined in such a scenario?\n\n(3) In Table 2, the “Task Success (No Attack)” metric drops significantly when defenses are enabled with GPT-4o. Since the framework's defense mechanism appears to only terminate tasks when attacks are detected, this drop could indicate over-rejection, raising concerns about the defense’s reliability used in the framework.\n\n(4) The presentation is not clear in several places:\n* Lines 222–228 mention both LlamaGuard and GPT-4o-judge as defenses, but Table 2 only uses a binary Yes/No for defense. It’s unclear which defense was applied in each case.\n* It is hard to interpret Figure 4 and what is the main message that figure is trying to convey.\n* The color highlights in Tables 2 and 3 are not explained—what do they signify?\n* Table and figure references are messed up (e.g., Table 2 at Line 98, Figure 2 at Line 122).\n\n(5) The code for this work is not provided, making it hard to validate the quality and usability of the proposed framework.", "questions_to_authors": "(1) The definition of “Stealth rate (fraction of tasks with both successful agent and attack)” is unclear. What does “successful agent” mean in this context? This metric isn’t mentioned in the analysis as well. How should this metric be interpreted?\n\n(2) More details about the defenses are needed. The paper mentions LlamaGuard and LLM-as-a-Judge, but how are these defenses applied? How is “unsafe” defined across different scenarios?\n\n(3) The library of the pre-implemented attacks needs more elaboration. What types of attacks are currently covered in the framework?", "extra_scores": {}}, {"review_id": "XQHH8PKpou", "reviewer": "Reviewer_oLEo", "summary": "This article introduces DoomArena, a novel security evaluation framework designed for AI agents. 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Author rebuttal:

Meta-review: Reviewers are all supportive of the paper and agree that the modular design of DoomArena provides a useful framework for agent security research, since it is a plug-in architecture for modeling attacks that is compatible with a wide range of agent benchmarks.  Reviewers had some questions about the scope; for camera ready, authors should clarify both the benefits and limitations discussed during review, e.g., that DoomArena is designed to be compatible with multiple agent frameworks and benchmarks, that it is focused on inference-time attacks and not training-time attacks. The focus seems to be on web-based agents only; any such limitations in the scope should be clarified as well.
Decision: Accept