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Last analyzed Sep 9, 2026

Language Model Security Database

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Indirect Environmental Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents utilizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for perception and planning are vulnerable to Indirect Environmental Jailbreak (IEJ). The vulnerability arises from the system's failure to distinguish between user-issued instructions and text embedded in the physical environment (e.g., writing on walls, sticky notes, or projections). The VLM processes visual text detected in the camera feed as authoritative context or direct commands, allowing a black-box…

The Shawshank Redemption of Embodied AI: Understanding and Benchmarking Indirect Environmental Jailbreaks
Evaluated models: GPT-4o, Qwen3-VL Plus, Gemini 2.0 Flash+3 more
  • GPT-4o
  • Qwen3-VL Plus
  • Gemini 2.0 Flash
  • GLM 4.5
  • DeepSeek-VL2
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet

ITS Typography Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) are vulnerable to a jailbreaking attack that combines image typography manipulation with multi-turn prompting. The vulnerability exploits the model's visual encoder and instruction-following capabilities by embedding a harmful textual query directly into a benign image as a visible caption (using specific fonts and blending techniques). An attacker then engages the model in a three-turn conversation: first asking a benign question about the visual object…

Jailbreaking Large Vision Language Models in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Evaluated models: GPT-4o, Qwen 2 7B, LLaVA 7B

Weak-OOD Jailbreak Boost

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are vulnerable to a jailbreak attack vector termed "weak-OOD" (weak Out-of-Distribution), specifically instantiated via the JOCR (Jailbreak via OCR-Aware Embedded Text Perturbation) method. The vulnerability arises from an asymmetry between the model's pre-training phase (which establishes robust OCR capabilities and intent perception) and the safety alignment phase (which lacks generalization to visual anomalies). Attackers can embed malicious text instructions…

Why does weak-OOD help? A Further Step Towards Understanding Jailbreaking VLMs
Evaluated models: GPT-4o, GPT-4o Mini, GPT-4.1+3 more
  • GPT-4o
  • GPT-4o Mini
  • GPT-4.1
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro
  • Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct
  • InternVL2.5 8B

Multi-Agent Multimodal Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

The JPRO (Automated Multimodal Jailbreaking via Multi-Agent Collaboration) framework exploits a vulnerability in Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) related to insufficient cross-modal safety alignment and lack of maliciousness sustainability in multi-turn dialogues. The attack leverages a multi-agent system (Planner, Attacker, Modifier, Verifier) to automate the generation of adversarial image-text pairs. By employing hybrid tactics—such as combining role-playing with malicious content…

JPRO: Automated Multimodal Jailbreaking via Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework
Evaluated models: GPT-4o, GPT-4o Mini, GPT-4.1+3 more
  • GPT-4o
  • GPT-4o Mini
  • GPT-4.1
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro
  • Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct
  • InternVL2.5 8B

Latent Space Discontinuity Exploitation

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A vulnerability exists in certain Large Language Models and diffusion models due to discontinuities in their latent space, which arise from data sparsity during training. An attacker can craft inputs containing lexically rare or semantically ambiguous constructs to guide the model's inference process toward these unstable, poorly-conditioned regions. This technique, termed "Alignment Degradation Induction," can degrade or bypass safety alignment mechanisms. Through iterative, multi-turn…

Exploiting Latent Space Discontinuities for Building Universal LLM Jailbreaks and Data Extraction Attacks
Evaluated models: Not reported

PolyJailbreak Cross-Modal Safety Asymmetry

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

The paper describes a reproducible black-box evaluation and attack framework, PolyJailbreak, for multimodal LLMs. It reports that uneven text-versus-vision safety alignment allows jointly optimized text and image inputs to bypass refusal behavior without model internals. The authors attribute this to visual alignment weakening textual refusal representations and to cross-modal fusion making harmful intent harder to separate from benign intent. These are paper-reported findings, not…

Multimodal Safety Is Asymmetric: Cross-Modal Exploits Unlock Black-Box MLLMs Jailbreaks
Evaluated models: LLaVA 1.5 7B, LLaVA 1.6 7B, Qwen-2.5-VL (7B)+5 more
  • LLaVA 1.5 7B
  • LLaVA 1.6 7B
  • Qwen-2.5-VL (7B)
  • Llama 3.2 11B Vision
  • GPT-4o
  • GPT-4.1
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Black-Box Confidence Exploit

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A vulnerability exists in the self-reflection and introspection capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-LLMs that allows attackers to perform black-box adversarial optimization using only textual model responses. This technique, termed "Asking for Directions" (AfD), bypasses the need for access to gradients, logits, or continuous confidence scores. The attacker employs a hill-climbing optimization strategy where they present the target model with two candidate inputs (an…

Black-box Optimization of LLM Outputs by Asking for Directions
Evaluated models: Qwen 2.5 VL 3B Instruct, Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct, Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct+8 more
  • Qwen 2.5 VL 3B Instruct
  • Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct
  • Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct
  • Llama 3.2 11B Vision
  • Llama 3.2 90B Vision
  • Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
  • GPT-4o
  • GPT-4o Mini
  • GPT-5 Mini
  • Claude 3.5 Haiku
  • Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Touch-Guided Mobile Agent Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) driven mobile agents, such as Mobile-Agent-E, are vulnerable to a touch-guided visual prompt injection attack. This vulnerability allows an attacker to hijack the agent's execution flow via a malicious Android application interface without requiring system-level privileges. The attack leverages "Non-privileged Perception Compromise," where a visual payload is embedded in the application UI and conditionally rendered only during agent-specific interaction…

Practical and Stealthy Touch-Guided Jailbreak Attacks on Deployed Mobile Vision-Language Agents
Evaluated models: GPT-4o, Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp 0205, Claude 3.5 Sonnet+3 more
  • GPT-4o
  • Gemini 2.0 Pro Exp 0205
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet
  • Qwen VL Max
  • DeepSeek-VL2
  • LLaVA-OneVision

LLM Self-Evolving Safety Decline

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Large Language Models (LLMs), including proprietary and open-weight state-of-the-art systems, are vulnerable to automated, self-evolving adversarial attacks orchestrated by multi-agent frameworks. The vulnerability exists because current safety alignment strategies (RLHF, static safety filters) fail to generalize against the "SafeEvalAgent" attack vector. In this vector, an "Analyst" agent analyzes model refusals to iteratively refine attack strategies, while a "Specialist" agent grounds these…

SafeEvalAgent: Toward Agentic and Self-Evolving Safety Evaluation of LLMs
Evaluated models: GPT-5, GPT-5 Chat Latest, Gemini 2.5 Pro+7 more
  • GPT-5
  • GPT-5 Chat Latest
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • Grok 4
  • Qwen 3 8B
  • Qwen 3 32B
  • Llama 4 Scout
  • Llama 4 Maverick
  • DeepSeek V3.1

VLM Imperceptible Image Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A vulnerability exists in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) that allows for the bypass of safety alignment mechanisms through loss-guided adversarial image perturbations. This attack, known as JaiLIP, operates entirely in the image space, requiring no textual prompt manipulation. The vulnerability is exploited by optimizing an adversarial image using a joint objective function that minimizes the Mean Squared Error (MSE) between the clean and perturbed image while maximizing the model's loss for…

JaiLIP: Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models via Loss Guided Image Perturbation
Evaluated models: GPT-4, InstructBLIP, Vicuna 13B

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.