{
 "public_id": "AIR-2024-0047",
 "incident_id": "2024-11-freysa-agent-fund-transfer",
 "date_disclosed": "2024-11-29",
 "date_occurred": "2024-11-29",
 "title": "Freysa crypto AI agent talked into releasing its $47,000 prize pool after 481 failed attempts",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "direct_prompt_injection_user_input",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "fund_transfer_function",
  "onchain_transaction"
 ],
 "target_product": "Freysa.ai autonomous agent",
 "target_vendor": "Freysa",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "financial_loss"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "the agent's 13.19 ETH prize pool (~$47,000)",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI01",
   "ASI02"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "excessive_agency",
   "tool_semantics_redefinition",
   "fake_admin_context",
   "crypto_agent"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "system prompt explicitly forbidding outgoing transfers",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "game concluded by design",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://the-decoder.com/hacker-wins-47000-by-tricking-ai-chatbot-with-smart-prompting/"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "They then redefined the \"approveTransfer\" function, making the bot think it handled incoming rather than outgoing payments.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Surfaced via AIAAIC ('Freysa crypto AI agent manipulated to reduce prize money pool'). Adversarial game rather than an unwitting victim, but a real agent with real fund-moving authority was subverted through tool-semantics redefinition. Money was paid out as designed by the game's rules.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Prompt Injection",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Unauthorized financial commitment"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the agent executed the on-chain transfer of the prize pool",
 "vector_family": "direct_prompt_injection",
 "vector_detail": "direct_prompt_injection_user_input",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "prompt_instruction"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI01",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "impact rule: unsafe_actuation",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI01"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI01 | added ASI02 (eai_category=unsafe_actuation)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}