Aurora Innovation — agentic threat model
Aurora Innovation's Aurora Driver represents an extreme-risk agentic profile due to its high autonomy and direct control over physical actuators (vehicles) in public spaces, where any security compromise or perception failure carries immediate life-safety consequences.
OWASP AIVSS score rationale
| Autonomy of Action | 1.00 | |
| Goal-Driven Planning | 0.90 | |
| Self-Modification | 0.10 | |
| Dynamic Tool Use | 0.90 | |
| Persistent Memory | 0.50 | |
| Contextual Awareness | 1.00 | |
| Dynamic Identity | 0.10 | |
| Multi-Agent Interactions | 0.40 | |
| Non-Determinism | 0.60 | |
| Opacity & Reflexivity | 0.80 |
Scored with the canonical OWASP AIVSS formula (AIVSS calculator reference); agentic risk factors estimated from the agent’s described capabilities.
MAESTRO 7-layer threat model
Per-layer threats for this agent. Layers tagged “not certain from listing” are general, caveated commentary where the public description didn’t pin that layer.
Not certain from the listing — The specific deep learning models and foundation architectures used for perception and decision-making are proprietary, but they are highly vulnerable to physical adversarial attacks (e.g., adversarial stickers on road signs) and model evasion techniques.
Not certain from the listing — The data pipelines for continuous learning, mapping, and sensor fusion are not detailed, presenting risks of training data poisoning, sensor spoofing, and localization data corruption.
Not certain from the listing — The proprietary orchestration and planning framework of the Aurora Driver is not described, but threats include planning logic bypasses, unsafe tool/actuator command execution, and failure to handle edge-case scenarios safely.
Not certain from the listing — The on-vehicle hardware, real-time operating systems, and over-the-air (OTA) update mechanisms are not detailed, leaving potential vulnerabilities to physical tampering, CAN bus exploitation, and firmware interception.
Not certain from the listing — Specific simulation, testing, and real-time safety-driver override monitoring systems are not detailed, creating risks of simulation-to-reality gaps and silent failures of safety-critical monitors.
Not certain from the listing — While safety is a stated goal, the listing does not specify compliance with automotive cybersecurity standards such as ISO/SAE 21434 or ISO 26262, leaving potential regulatory and audit gaps.
Not certain from the listing — Fleet-wide coordination and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication ecosystems are not detailed, but threats include rogue vehicle-to-vehicle communications and cascading fleet-wide routing failures.
MAESTRO — the 7-layer agentic threat-modeling framework (Cloud Security Alliance / Ken Huang).