Guardrail evasion

https://taxonomy.eticas.ai/risk/evasion-attacks

Maturity: established

Inputs crafted so that a deployed system acts on a request its safeguards should have blocked. For LLM deployments, the robustness of the guardrail or filter layer to input transformations that keep the request readable to the model while defeating the guardrail; for classifier-based systems, adversarial perturbations that force misclassification at inference time. Poisoning of training or fine-tuning data is data-poisoning.

Also known as: Evasion attacks · Guardrail robustness · Adversarial evasion

System type: ADM and LLM systems
Lifecycle stages: In Processing, Post Processing

Mappings to external frameworks

Standards & frameworks

Framework Reference
AIUC-1 — AI Underwriting Company Standard Detect adversarial input

Taxonomies & vocabularies

Framework Reference
W3C Data Privacy Vocabulary — AI Extension Adversarial Attack
MIT AI Risk Repository AI system security vulnerabilities and attacks
IBM AI Risk Atlas Inference → Robustness → Adversarial robustness