AgentLAB: Benchmarking LLM Agents against Long-Horizon Attacks
Tanqiu Jiang, Yuhui Wang, Jiacheng Liang, Ting Wang
Abstract
LLM agents are increasingly deployed in longhorizon, complex environments to solve challenging problems, but this expansion exposes them to long-horizon attacks that exploit multi-turn user-agent-environment interactions to achieve objectives infeasible in single-turn settings. To measure agent vulnerabilities to such risks, we present AgentLAB, the first benchmark dedicated to evaluating LLM agent susceptibility to adaptive, long-horizon attacks. Currently, AgentLAB supports five novel attack types including intent hijacking, tool chaining, task injection, objective drifting, and memory poisoning, spanning 28 realistic agentic environments, and 644 security test cases. Leveraging Agent-LAB, we evaluate representative LLM agents and find that they remain highly susceptible to longhorizon attacks; moreover, defenses designed for single-turn interactions fail to reliably mitigate long-horizon threats. We anticipate that AgentLAB will serve as a valuable benchmark for tracking progress on securing LLM agents in practical settings. The benchmark is publicly available at https://tanqiujiang. github.io/AgentLAB_main .
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