ASI03: Privilege Compromise
Agent escalates privileges via chained tool calls or impersonation of another principal.
Last reviewed July 2026
The gap ASI03 closes
In OWASP Agentic Top 10, Privilege Compromise addresses authorization. Agent escalates privileges via chained tool calls or impersonation of another principal. Penaxtra records this control at critical severity and establishes its state by exercising it against the running system, so the result reflects observed behavior rather than a documented assertion.
How Penaxtra delivers ASI03
Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target privilege compromise directly. Each probe runs against the live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges and a meta-judge before it is recorded as a finding under the ASI03 identifier. The OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI03 identifier is attached when the finding is created, so it appears in the exported evidence pack already mapped to the control. Where the same weakness maps to another framework, the finding carries those control identifiers as well.
ASI03 capabilities
Findings tagged with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI03 identifier
Penaxtra severity for this control (critical)
Cross-framework identifiers attached to the same finding where controls overlap
PDF and JSON evidence export with the control identifier attached
ASI03 compliance mapping
Findings for ASI03 carry the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI03 identifier along with the corresponding control identifiers in the other frameworks Penaxtra maps, so one result is reflected across each mapped framework.
Frequently asked
What is ASI03 (Privilege Compromise)?
Agent escalates privileges via chained tool calls or impersonation of another principal. It is a OWASP Agentic Top 10 control; Penaxtra assesses it at critical severity.
How does Penaxtra test for ASI03?
Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target privilege compromise directly. Each probe runs against the live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges and a meta-judge before it is recorded as a finding under the ASI03 identifier.
Does a finding for ASI03 help with an audit?
Each finding is tagged with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI03 identifier and exported in the PDF and JSON evidence pack, so it appears on the auditor control list with the identifier already attached.