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CAISI x Gray Swan x UK AISI indirect-prompt-injection competition: all 13 frontier models broken
AIR-2026-0071 AIR record · 2026-03-caisi-grayswan-ukaisi-ipi-competition
From the supporting source
CAISI partnered with Gray Swan, the UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI), and several frontier AI labsarxiv.org
The record
Disclosed
2026-03-16
Vendor
Gray Swan AI; NIST CAISI; UK AI Security Institute; frontier AI labs
Product
Gray Swan Arena (13 frontier models in tool-use, coding and computer-use agent settings)
Risk domain
Agent behaviour › Unsafe actuation
Also touches
Data exfiltration channels, Confused deputy
System type
Generative model
Who acted
Agent acted (contested) — all 13 agents took tool, retrieval and code-execution actions under injection
Attack surface
Other
Autonomy level
Semi-autonomous
Initial vector
Indirect prompt injection
Impact type
Policy violation, Data exfiltration, Unauthorized action
Confidence
High
Submitted by
EAI Internal
Crosswalk
- OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026)
- ASI01 – Agent Goal Hijack
- MITRE ATLAS
- AML.T0048 – External Harms
- NIST AI RMF
- MEASURE 2.6; MANAGE 1.3
- EU AI Act
- Annex III §1(c)
- ISO/IEC
- TR 24028; 24029-1; 23894
- AIUC-1
- C. Safety
- Scope
- agent misuse
- Mitigation
- Require confirmation for destructive actions; Implement dry-run modes; Use layered safety controls.
- Taxonomy
- Enkrypt AI agent risk taxonomy · Black-Box Red Teaming of Agentic AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Automated Risk Discovery
Blast radius
13 frontier models, 41 scenarios, three agent settings
Capability abused
Defense & remediation
Recorded defense
vendor-native agent safety training and injection defenses
Guardrail kinds
Abuse detection
Guardrail outcome
Silent
Taxonomy & references
Curator notes
Paper: 'How Vulnerable Are AI Agents to Indirect Prompt Injections? Insights from a Large-Scale Public Competition' (Dziemian, Lin, Fu, Nowak, Zou, Ahmad, Chaudhuri, Davies, Rando, Qi, Fredrikson, Kolter et al., 16 Mar 2026). NIST CAISI blog of 23 Mar 2026 reports 'more than 250,000 attack attempts from over 400 participants'; the paper reports 272,000 attempts from 464 participants and 8,648 successful attacks across 41 scenarios, with per-model success from 0.5% (Claude Opus 4.5) to 8.5% (Gemini 2.5 Pro). Also listed in the user's init.md reading list, but retained here because it is a named-frontier-agent result, not just literature.
Supporting sources
Cite as
Enkrypt AI. "CAISI x Gray Swan x UK AISI indirect-prompt-injection competition: all 13 frontier models broken". AIR, AIR-2026-0071. https://agentincident.vercel.app/i/AIR-2026-0071/ (accessed 2026-10-19).