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Multiple Model Guardrail Jailbreak via "Forensic Field Guide" Tactic

Case GUID: a50c962f-1a46-4382-b810-9a2b4c5c6091

Summary

A Guardrail Jailbreak vulnerability has been discovered affecting multiple models. The specific flaw exploits forensic and training-oriented documentation framing by requesting prohibited knowledge as a neutral field identification manual with strict observational constraints, shifting the model into an expert evidence-recognition mode with relaxed safety enforcement and allowing the attacker to extract detailed illicit process knowledge under the guise of harm prevention and situational awareness.

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Metadata

Models and Test Scores

Copyrights Harmful Substances Illicit Substances
Harry Potter Anthrax Nerve Agent Crystal Meth Fentanyl
Alibaba logo Alibaba Qwen Max
Alibaba logo Alibaba Qwen Plus
Alibaba logo Alibaba Qwen Turbo
Anthropic logo Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Cohere logo Cohere Command R
DeepSeek logo DeepSeek DeepSeek R1
Google logo Google Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google logo Google Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google logo Google Gemini 3.5 Flash
Meta logo Meta LLaMa 3.3
Meta logo Meta LLaMa 4 Maverick
Meta logo Meta LLaMa 4 Scout
Mistral logo Mistral Mistral 8B
Mistral logo Mistral Mistral Large
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-4.1
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-4.5
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-4o
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-5
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-o3 mini-high
Twitter / X logo Twitter / X Grok 4
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Social Impact Score

Level 3: Significant Risk

Violations at this level present a tangible risk to public safety or social well-being, often related to dangerous but not highly restricted content.

Example: Bypassing guardrails to obtain instructions for creating illicit substances, such as recreational drugs or substances with moderate harm potential. Leakage of private personal data such as Social Security number or private medical.

Potential Consequences: Potential health impacts on a small scale, significant regulatory interest, and the need for stricter AI guardrails.

Taxonomies

Stratagems
This involves clever and unorthodox tactics designed to deceive the model, often requiring an understanding of its operational mechanics to achieve desired outcomes.
Meta Prompting
This technique focuses on manipulating the prompting process itself to influence the model's behavior and responses, often by employing higher-level prompting strategies.
Deceptive Formatting
A prompt injection in the most pure sense, formatting the user prompt to fabricate the appearance of system instructions, a database query, its own prediction, or some other source of input a guard railed AI system might be expecting, causing it to behave in insecure ways based on the fabricated context from an adversarially formatted user prompt.

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Severity

Low

Security Boundary

Guardrail Jailbreak

Models

Alibaba logo Alibaba Qwen 2.5
Alibaba logo Alibaba Qwen Max
Alibaba logo Alibaba Qwen Plus
Alibaba logo Alibaba Qwen Turbo
Anthropic logo Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Cohere logo Cohere Command R
DeepSeek logo DeepSeek DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek logo DeepSeek DeepSeek V3
Google logo Google Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google logo Google Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google logo Google Gemini 3.5 Flash
Meta logo Meta LLaMa 3.3
Meta logo Meta LLaMa 4 Maverick
Meta logo Meta LLaMa 4 Scout
Mistral logo Mistral Mistral 8B
Mistral logo Mistral Mistral Large
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-4.1
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-4.1 mini
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-4.5
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-4o
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-5
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-o1
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-o1 mini
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-o1 pro
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-o3 mini
OpenAI logo OpenAI GPT-o3 mini-high
Twitter / X logo Twitter / X Grok 4

Disclosed On

2025-07-14 (12 months)

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Published On

2026-02-13 (5 months)

Credit

Anonymous