Malicious or compromised agents inject harmful data into agent-to-agent channels, contaminate shared resources, impersonate higher-privilege agents, inherit privileges through interaction, or propagate cascade failures across dependent agents.
AI/ML / Multi Agent Refarch / Threats / DEV
Multi-agent collaboration compromise
CCC.MARefArc.TH31
Related Capabilities
| ID | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CCC.MARefArc.CP06 | Agent collaboration and orchestration patterns | Supports supervisor/worker decomposition, skills-based routing, and agent-as-a-tool handoff for decomposing and executing complex tasks across multiple agents. |
| CCC.MARefArc.CP03 | Agent registry and lifecycle management | Catalog of available agents with their capabilities, metadata, and configuration, supporting versioning, lifecycle management, and controlled onboarding of new agents. |
Related Controls
| ID | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CCC.MARefArc.CN14 | Multi-Agent Isolation and Segmentation | Isolate agents and their memory and state so that compromise or failure of one agent cannot propagate to others, and enforce segmentation of agent-to-agent communication. |
External Mappings
| Framework | ID | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| air-vec | AIR-OP-028-01 | |
| air-vec | AIR-OP-028-02 | |
| air-vec | AIR-OP-028-03 | |
| air-vec | AIR-OP-028-04 | |
| air-vec | AIR-OP-028-05 |