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claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-21

OWASP's AISVS 1.0 names no TOCTOU, race-condition, atomicity, or lost-update terminology anywhere in its text

AISVS 1.0 (cover-dated "VERSION 1.0, June 2026"; OWASP's project page reports release June 24, 2026) devotes its ninth control family, "C9 Orchestration & Agentic Security," specifically to autonomous and multi-agent systems: six subsections and 34 numbered requirements (9.1.1 through 9.6.3) spanning execution budgets and circuit breakers, high-impact-action approval, component isolation, agent/orchestrator identity, delegation and continuous enforcement, and shutdown/graceful degradation. None of "TOCTOU," "time-of-check," "race condition," "atomicity," "atomic," or "lost update" appears anywhere in that chapter's text or reference list, in the C8 memory/embeddings/vector-database chapter, or across the standard's full alphabetical glossary — confirmed by reading the extracted PDF directly rather than relying on a summarized fetch. The chapter's own references ("OWASP Agentic AI Threats and Mitigations," "OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026," NIST AI 100-1, EU AI Act Article 14) do not cite the arXiv "Atomicity for Agents" paper (claim-toctou-named-frame-browser-use-agents) or any TOCTOU-specific research.

This answers the first half of question-owasp-aisvs-toctou-vs-lost-update directly: as of v1.0, AISVS does not formally codify agent-TOCTOU as a named requirement class, despite building an entire chapter around the agent-security surface where the vault's TOCTOU-in-agents thread lives. The closest the standard comes to a check-then-act mitigation is discussed separately in claim-aisvs-closest-analog-to-toctou-is-authorization-freshness-not-world-state-recheck.

Source

Tier 1 OWASP AISVS Project (project leads: Jim Manico, Otto Sulin, Rico Komenda, Russ Memisyazici, Raza Sharif) 2026-06
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OWASP/AISVS/main/1.0/dist/AISVS-1.0.pdf
“C9 Orchestration & Agentic Security... This chapter addresses ensuring autonomous and multi-agent systems execute only authorized, intended, and bounded actions.”
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