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Large Language Model (LLM)-based Code Completion Tools (LCCTs), such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q, are vulnerable to jailbreaking and training data extraction attacks due to their unique workflows and reliance on proprietary code datasets. Jailbreaking attacks exploit the LLM's ability to generate harmful content by embedding malicious prompts within various code components (filenames, comments, variable names, function calls). Training data extraction attacks leverage the LLM's tendency to…

Security Attacks on LLM-based Code Completion Tools
Affects: GPT 3.5-turbo-0125, GPT-4 Turbo-2024-04-09, GPT-4o-2024-05-13

Source: arXiv

Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to a novel black-box jailbreaking attack, ECLIPSE, which leverages the LLM's own capabilities as an optimizer to generate adversarial suffixes. ECLIPSE iteratively refines these suffixes based on a harmfulness score, bypassing the need for pre-defined affirmative phrases used in previous optimization-based attacks. This allows for effective jailbreaking even with limited interaction and without white-box access to the LLM's internal parameters.

Unlocking Adversarial Suffix Optimization Without Affirmative Phrases: Efficient Black-box Jailbreaking via LLM as Optimizer
Affects: Falcon 7B Instruct, GPT-3.5 Turbo, Llama 2 7B Chat +1 more

Source: arXiv

Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to a black-box query-response optimization attack (QROA). QROA iteratively refines a malicious prompt suffix using a surrogate model to maximize a reward function that measures the likelihood of eliciting harmful content from the LLM. This attack does not require access to the model's internal parameters or logits; it operates solely via standard query-response interactions.

QROA: A Black-Box Query-Response Optimization Attack on LLMs
Affects: Falcon 7B Instruct, Llama 2 7B Chat, Mistral 7B Instruct +1 more

Source: arXiv

GPT-4o exhibits vulnerability to jailbreak attacks via audio prompts, despite enhanced safety against text-based attacks. Successful jailbreaks can be achieved by converting text prompts, including those optimized for adversarial attacks against other LLMs (demonstrated using GCG, AutoDAN, PAP, and BAP methods), into audio using text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. This circumvention allows elicitation of unsafe responses from GPT-4o that would otherwise be prevented by its safety mechanisms. The…

Unveiling the safety of gpt-4o: An empirical study using jailbreak attacks
Affects: GPT-4o, GPT-4V, Llama 2 7B Chat

Source: arXiv

Updated 12/29/2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks that can bypass their internal copyright compliance mechanisms, causing them to generate verbatim copyrighted text. The vulnerability stems from insufficient robustness against prompt engineering techniques that manipulate the model into ignoring or circumventing its safety filters designed for copyright protection.

SHIELD: Evaluation and Defense Strategies for Copyright Compliance in LLM Text Generation
Affects: Claude 3 Haiku, Gemini 1.5 Pro, Gemini Pro +5 more

Source: arXiv

Updated 12/29/2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to a novel attack leveraging subconscious exploitation and echopraxia. Attackers craft prompts that subtly guide the LLM to echo malicious content it has implicitly learned during pre-training but is programmed to suppress. This bypasses safety mechanisms designed to prevent the generation of harmful content. The technique involves extracting malicious knowledge from the LLM's conditional probability distribution (representing its "subconscious") and…

Rapid Optimization for Jailbreaking LLMs via Subconscious Exploitation and Echopraxia
Affects: Alpaca 7B, Baichuan 2 7B Chat, Claude 2 +6 more

Source: arXiv

Updated 12/28/2024

A prompt injection vulnerability in OpenAI's custom GPT models allows attackers to extract the system prompt and potentially leak user-uploaded files. Attackers craft malicious prompts that manipulate the LLM into revealing sensitive information, even when defensive prompts are in place. The vulnerability is exacerbated when the model includes a code interpreter.

Assessing prompt injection risks in 200+ custom gpts

Source: arXiv

A system prompt leakage vulnerability in GPT-4V allows extraction of internal system prompts through carefully crafted, incomplete conversations combined with image input. Extracted prompts can be used as highly effective jailbreak prompts, bypassing safety restrictions and leading to undesirable outputs, including revealing personally identifiable information from images.

Jailbreaking gpt-4v via self-adversarial attacks with system prompts
Affects: GPT-4, GPT-4V, LLaVA 1.5

Source: arXiv

Large Language Model (LLM)-integrated web applications using Langchain (and potentially similar middleware) are vulnerable to Prompt-to-SQL (P2SQL) injection attacks. Unsanitized user prompts can be crafted to cause the LLM to generate malicious SQL queries, leading to unauthorized database access (read and write operations). This vulnerability bypasses attempts to restrict the LLM through prompt engineering alone.

From prompt injections to sql injection attacks: How protected is your llm-integrated web application?
Affects: GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4, PaLM 2 +1 more

Source: arXiv

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.