How does EchelonGraph detect OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM07 violations?

EchelonGraph automatically detects OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM07 violations using scanner rule OWASP-LLM-007. The scanner checks cloud infrastructure configurations in real-time and flags non-compliant resources.

What audit questions are asked for OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM07?

Show me the system prompt for your top LLM application. Does it contain any secrets, API keys, or business-sensitive content? What is your secret rotation policy if a system prompt leaks? Have you tested system-prompt extraction recently?

🧠OWASP LLM Top 10 LLM07Rule: OWASP-LLM-007medium

System Prompt Leakage

Description

System prompts containing sensitive info (business logic, secrets, authorization rules) exposed through model output, jailbreaks, or prompt-injection.

⚠️ Risk Impact

System prompts are routinely treated as 'private' by developers — but they're trivially extractable by sufficiently motivated users. Any sensitive info in a system prompt is functionally public.

🔍 How EchelonGraph Detects This

OWASP-LLM-007Automated scanner rule

EchelonGraph's Tier 1 Cloud Scanner automatically checks for this condition across all connected cloud accounts. Violations are flagged as medium-severity findings with remediation guidance.

🔧 Remediation

Never store secrets in system prompts. Use external authorization checks instead of prompt-encoded rules. Treat system-prompt content as 'public knowledge that's just inconvenient to find'.

💀 Real-World Attack Scenario

A Discord-integrated coding-assist LLM had a system prompt that embedded an OpenAI API key for tool use. A user posted a system-prompt-extraction payload; the key leaked. Within hours an attacker had enumerated the API and incurred $87K in unbilled compute before AWS billing flagged the spike.

💰 Cost of Non-Compliance

System-prompt-leaked API keys: avg $50K-$200K direct compute cost per incident + reputational impact.

📋 Audit Questions

1.Show me the system prompt for your top LLM application.
2.Does it contain any secrets, API keys, or business-sensitive content?
3.What is your secret rotation policy if a system prompt leaks?
4.Have you tested system-prompt extraction recently?

🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Mapping

MITRE_ATLAS-AML.T0051 — LLM Prompt Injection

⚡ Common Pitfalls

⛔Embedding API keys, internal URLs, or pricing logic in system prompts
⛔Treating system prompts as inaccessible to users
⛔No rotation procedure if leak occurs

📈 Business Value

System-prompt hygiene prevents the most common LLM secret-leakage incident. Material for any LLM application that uses authenticated tool access.

⏱️ Effort Estimate

Manual

1-2 weeks for system-prompt audit + secret-extraction to env / KMS

With EchelonGraph

EchelonGraph scans system prompts for secret patterns; alerts on embedded credentials

🔗 Cross-Framework References

OWASP_LLM-LLM01OWASP_LLM-LLM02

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