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Last analyzed Sep 9, 2026

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Inaudible Ultrasonic LLM Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

Speech-driven Large Language Models (LLMs) and end-to-end Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) are vulnerable to inaudible near-ultrasonic prompt injections, a framework dubbed Sirens' Whisper (SWhisper). By exploiting the non-linear response of commodity microphones, attackers can encode structured, phonetically optimized adversarial prompts into the 17–22 kHz near-ultrasonic band. Using regularized channel-inversion pre-compensation, the attacker shapes the waveform to account for microphone…

Sirens' Whisper: Inaudible Near-Ultrasonic Jailbreaks of Speech-Driven LLMs
Evaluated models: GLM-4 Voice, Qwen Omni Turbo, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct+5 more
  • GLM-4 Voice
  • Qwen Omni Turbo
  • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
  • Gemma 3 4B
  • Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
  • Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
  • GLM-4 Air 250414
  • Grok 4

Autonomous Agent Tool RCE

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

The OpenClaw autonomous agent framework lacks execution sandboxing, running agents directly on the host machine with the disk and system privileges of the host user. This architecture allows attackers to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) and arbitrary data exfiltration via Indirect Prompt Injection. By embedding malicious instructions within external data sources (e.g., scraped web pages or uploaded documents), an attacker can hijack the agent's planning capabilities to sequentially chain…

Uncovering Security Threats and Architecting Defenses in Autonomous Agents: A Case Study of OpenClaw
Evaluated models: Not reported

Agent Document Instruction Injection

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

High-privilege LLM agents with filesystem and network access are vulnerable to documentation-embedded instruction injection, an issue termed the "Trusted Executor Dilemma." When autonomously processing external workflow documents (e.g., README.md files or setup guides) during software installation workflows, agents implicitly trust and execute embedded text instructions without verifying their underlying intent. Attackers can embed syntactically valid, malicious directives (such as data…

You Told Me to Do It: Measuring Instructional Text-induced Private Data Leakage in LLM Agents
Evaluated models: GPT-4o, o3, o3-mini+5 more
  • GPT-4o
  • o3
  • o3-mini
  • GPT-oss 20B
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet
  • Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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

Content-Level Ethics Bypass

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

An "in-content harm" vulnerability exists in safety-aligned Large Language Models (LLMs) where task-level alignment mechanisms fail to evaluate the safety of user-provided external data. Attackers can bypass safety guardrails by embedding policy-violating text (e.g., violence, self-harm, explicit content) within the payload of a seemingly benign, policy-compliant task (e.g., translation, summarization, grammar polishing). Because the primary instruction is harmless, the LLM's safety filters…

Understanding LLM Behavior When Encountering User-Supplied Harmful Content in Harmless Tasks
Evaluated models: GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-5.2+6 more
  • GPT-3.5 Turbo
  • GPT-4 Turbo
  • GPT-5.2
  • Gemini 3 Pro
  • Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B Instruct
  • Vicuna 7B v1.5
  • Gemma 7B IT
  • Llama 2 7B Chat
  • Llama 3 8B Instruct

Arbitrary Agent Topology Breach

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A vulnerability in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS) allows an attacker who controls a single arbitrary agent to map and extract the system's entire confidential communication topology. Unlike prior attacks that rely on direct identity queries and administrative privileges, this attack infers topology stealthily purely from contextual and linguistic signals (stylometry, role-specific syntax), bypassing standard keyword-based and identity-filtering defenses. The exploit relies on a…

WebWeaver: Breaking Topology Confidentiality in LLM Multi-Agent Systems with Stealthy Context-Based Inference
Evaluated models: Llama 3 70B, Llama 3.1 8B, Mistral Large 12B+3 more
  • Llama 3 70B
  • Llama 3.1 8B
  • Mistral Large 12B
  • Qwen 2.5 7B
  • Gemma 2 9B
  • Phi-3

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

Prompt Length Exponential Jailbreak

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A vulnerability in safety-aligned Large Language Models (LLMs) allows attackers to achieve an exponentially scaling Attack Success Rate (ASR) for jailbreaks by combining adversarial prompt injection with repeated inference-time sampling. While ASR against un-injected prompts scales polynomially with the number of generated samples ($k$), introducing a long adversarial suffix acts as a strong "misalignment field." This shifts the model's generation distribution into a replica-symmetric ordered…

Jailbreak Scaling Laws for Large Language Models: Polynomial-Exponential Crossover
Evaluated models: Claude Sonnet 4.5 20250929, Claude 3.5 Haiku 20241022, GPT 3.5-turbo-0125+7 more
  • Claude Sonnet 4.5 20250929
  • Claude 3.5 Haiku 20241022
  • GPT 3.5-turbo-0125
  • GPT-4 0613
  • GPT-4.5 Preview
  • Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
  • Llama 3 8B Instruct
  • Llama 3 70B Instruct
  • OLMo 2 0325 32B Instruct
  • OLMo 3.1 32B Instruct

Multi-Stream Thinking Collapse

Published Analyzed Source: arXiv

A vulnerability in Large Language Models (LLMs) equipped with built-in "thinking" or step-by-step reasoning modes allows attackers to bypass safety alignments, trigger reasoning collapse, and cause resource exhaustion. The vulnerability is exploited via a Multi-Stream Perturbation Attack, which fragments the sequential integrity of a harmful prompt by word-by-word interleaving it with benign auxiliary tasks (e.g., "Explain the water cycle"). By wrapping the benign text streams in specific…

Multi-Stream Perturbation Attack: Breaking Safety Alignment of Thinking LLMs Through Concurrent Task Interference
Evaluated models: Qwen 3 1.7B, Qwen 3 4B, Qwen 3 8B+2 more
  • Qwen 3 1.7B
  • Qwen 3 4B
  • Qwen 3 8B
  • Qwen 3 Max
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash

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

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.