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Last analyzed Sep 9, 2026

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Agent Lifecycle Compound Threats

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

OpenClaw is vulnerable to persistent memory poisoning, allowing an attacker to manipulate the agent's long-term memory store (MEMORY.md) via prompt injection. Because the autonomous agent continuously integrates this memory file as context for all subsequent reasoning and task planning, injected payloads act as durable behavioral constraints. This allows an attacker to persistently alter the agent's core policy, manipulate tool selection, and hijack future sessions without any further…

Taming openclaw: Security analysis and mitigation of autonomous llm agent threats
Evaluated models: Not reported

LLM Prefix Cache Reconstruction

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Automatic Prefix Caching (APC) in multi-tenant LLM serving systems introduces a timing side-channel vulnerability that permits cross-tenant data leakage. APC shares computed Key-Value (KV) tensors across different users when their requests share identical initial tokens. Because reusing cached tensors is significantly faster than recomputing them, a measurable difference in Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) exists between cache hits and misses. An attacker can exploit this shared cache by sending…

PrefixWall: Mitigating Prefix Caching Side Channels in Shared LLM Systems
Evaluated models: Gemma 3 4B IT, Llama 2 7B Chat, Llama 2 13B Chat+6 more
  • Gemma 3 4B IT
  • Llama 2 7B Chat
  • Llama 2 13B Chat
  • LLaVA OneVision Qwen2 0.5B
  • LLaVA OneVision Qwen2 7B Chat
  • Qwen2-VL 2B Instruct
  • Qwen2-VL 7B Instruct
  • Qwen 2.5 VL 3B Instruct
  • Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Multi-Turn Guardrail Degradation

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.2 are vulnerable to safety guardrail bypasses via authoritative and operational contextual framing. Attackers can evade safety classifiers by encapsulating restricted objectives (e.g., malicious code generation, misinformation, social engineering) within "legitimate" professional contexts, such as graduate-level academic research, network stress-testing, or corporate security awareness simulations. This vulnerability is exploitable both via zero-shot…

ADVERSA: Measuring Multi-Turn Guardrail Degradation and Judge Reliability in Large Language Models
Evaluated models: Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, GPT-5.2+1 more
  • Claude Opus 4.6
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro
  • GPT-5.2
  • Llama 3.1 70B

LLM Steganographic Covert Channel

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A malicious finetuning vulnerability exists in Large Language Models (LLMs) that process zero-width Unicode characters. An attacker can bypass training-data moderation filters and inference-time safety guardrails by finetuning the model to decode and encode invisible-character steganography. By injecting target malicious interactions encoded in a base-4 representation of zero-width characters alongside benign plaintext cover text during supervised finetuning (SFT), the model learns to process…

Invisible Safety Threat: Malicious Finetuning for LLM via Steganography
Evaluated models: GPT-4.1, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Phi-4+1 more
  • GPT-4.1
  • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
  • Phi-4
  • Mistral Small 24B Base 2501

Two-Frame Infilling Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A temporal trajectory infilling vulnerability in Text-to-Video (T2V) generative models allows attackers to bypass input and output safety filters to generate policy-violating content. The vulnerability is exploited using a fragmented prompting technique known as Two Frames Matter (TFM). An attacker submits a prompt that specifies only sparse boundary conditions (the start and end frames) using semantically suggestive but lexically benign alternatives, entirely omitting the intermediate action…

Two Frames Matter: A Temporal Attack for Text-to-Video Model Jailbreaking
Evaluated models: Not reported

Inter-Turn Modality Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to alignment bypass via Inter-Turn Modality Switching (ITMS). By systematically rotating the input modality (e.g., alternating between text, audio, and image) across successive turns in a multi-turn adversarial conversation, an attacker can destabilize the model's safety defenses. The cross-modal transition mechanism exploits alignment gaps between differing input processing pipelines, accelerating the erosion of safety guardrails and…

MUSE: A Run-Centric Platform for Multimodal Unified Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models
Evaluated models: Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, GPT-4o+1 more
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview
  • GPT-4o
  • Claude Sonnet 4

Adaptive Agent Tool Injection

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Agentic LLMs integrated with external data services (e.g., Model Context Protocol, MCP) are vulnerable to Adaptive Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks. When an agent queries external servers, attackers can inject malicious payloads into the retrieved content to hijack the agent's reasoning process and force the execution of high-authority tools. Unlike traditional static prompt injections, this vulnerability dynamically exploits the agent's internal logic audit. By using Markovian…

AdapTools: Adaptive Tool-based Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks on Agentic LLMs
Evaluated models: GPT-4.1, DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2.5 Flash+3 more
  • GPT-4.1
  • DeepSeek R1
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • Qwen 3 8B
  • Llama 3.1 8B
  • Mistral 8B

Long-Horizon Agent Attacks

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

LLM agents equipped with tool-use, persistent memory, and environmental interaction capabilities are vulnerable to long-horizon attacks. Attackers can bypass single-turn safety guardrails by exploiting the temporal dimension of multi-turn interactions to incrementally steer agent behavior. The vulnerability manifests because the agent's safety mechanisms perform localized, single-step evaluations but fail to maintain semantic safety across extended interaction trajectories. This enables…

AgentLAB: Benchmarking LLM Agents against Long-Horizon Attacks
Evaluated models: GPT-4o, GPT-5.1, Gemini 3 Flash+1 more
  • GPT-4o
  • GPT-5.1
  • Gemini 3 Flash
  • Claude Sonnet 4.5

Multi-Turn Proxy Evasion

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A logical vulnerability exists in LLM security proxies and guardrails that utilize weighted-average aggregation algorithms for multi-turn risk scoring. The scoring logic exhibits a mathematical "ceiling property" where the cumulative conversation-level risk score converges to the per-turn score regardless of the number of interaction turns ($n$). Consequently, the aggregated score is bounded by the maximum single-turn score ($cum \leq \max(s_i)$). This allows remote attackers to bypass…

Peak+ Accumulation: A Proxy-Level Scoring Formula for Multi-Turn LLM Attack Detection
Evaluated models: Not reported

Progressive Attention LVLM Attack

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are vulnerable to a Stage-wise Attention-Guided Attack (SAGA) that allows for the generation of highly transferable, imperceptible adversarial examples. The vulnerability stems from a positive correlation between regional cross-modal attention scores and adversarial loss sensitivity in LVLMs. An attacker can exploit this by extracting an attention map from a surrogate open-source model (e.g., Qwen3-VL) to identify high-attention "hotspots." SAGA utilizes a…

Stage-wise Attention-Guided Region Sequencing for Adversarial Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models
Evaluated models: Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, GPT-4.1+7 more
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • Gemini 3 Pro Preview
  • GPT-4.1
  • GPT-5 Mini
  • Grok 4 Fast
  • LLaVA 1.5 7B
  • Llama 4 Maverick
  • Gemma 3 4B IT
  • Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B Instruct
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct

Research methodology

Entries summarize publicly available primary-source security research. Model names reflect only systems explicitly evaluated by the cited paper, and measurements are research-reported unless independent verification is stated.

Discovery and publication are separate: new papers enter a candidate queue, then require human review and explicit approval before publication. Updates follow that review process, not a guaranteed daily publishing schedule. “Last analyzed” is the newest analysis date among published entries; it does not mean that all recent research has been covered.