The paper proposes an option channel attack: changing one option label can make an agent guardrail allow a prohibited operation
Proposing an option channel attack that renames option labels so that agent guardrails allow prohibited operations
- arXiv
- 2610.12292
- Published
- Layer
- Application layer
- Setting
- LLM applications
- Attacker
- Black-box
- Evaluated models
- LAYA-TD, LAYA-EN, LAYA-ML and others5
- AttacksDetection evasion
- ComponentGuardrails and judges
AbstractThe authors' evaluation indicates that typed models should not serve as final safety arbiters; they are susceptible to off-policy text and option name manipulation, and confidence filtering cannot resist attacks.