ASLEval: Measuring Privacy Exposure Displacement in LLM Agent Sessions

arXiv:2609.18864 · cs.CR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-18

Comments: 8 pages, 3 figures

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

The gist: Privacy evaluations of tool-using LLM agents often inspect a designated action, final response, or attacker report.

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Abstract

Privacy evaluations of tool-using LLM agents often inspect a designated action, final response, or attacker report. These local proxies can miss unauthorized exposure elsewhere in a multi-step session and lack common ground truth across outlets, reports, and tool paths. We introduce privacy exposure displacement, the mismatch between a local evaluation proxy and target-grounded session exposure, and ASLEval, an authorization-aware framework that pre-registers a hidden target set, measures all declared visible exits, and reserves internal traces for diagnosis. Across multiple enterprise-style environments and independently implemented runtimes, we observe three recurring patterns. An expected-outlet-only view misses 46.9% of exposure recovered by the visible-exit union; attacker self-reports combine omissions with high false discovery; and schema-aligned internal evidence usually precedes visible exposure at the request/probe level. Reducing model-visible returns changes this path but can eliminate normal-task success. Independent human review supports the adjudication pipeline while identifying harder console and candidate cases. These findings motivate benchmarks that declare the complete visible boundary, ground claims in pre-specified targets and authorization, and report privacy together with task utility.

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