{"data":{"id":"6d21e1f4-2c05-47d0-935e-174f246d2623","title":"I Think, Therefore I Attack: Evaluating Thought Injection Attacks on Reasoning Agents","summary":"Researchers studied thought injection, where untrusted text styled as a model's own reasoning is fed back to Large Reasoning Models (LRMs). Testing production open-weight models (GLM-5.3, MiniMax-M2.5, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next) in a containerized agentic cyber range, they achieved attack success rates up to 50% on objectives such as reverse-shell exfiltration and repository backdooring. The same objectives in standard user-voice prompt injection never succeeded, and thinking tags suppressed the agent's disclosure of the injection.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["security","research"],"sourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08811v1","publishedAt":"2026-11-06T00:06:13.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":["prompt_injection"],"issueType":"research","affectedPackages":null,"affectedPackageNames":null,"affectedPackageRefs":null,"affectedVendors":[],"affectedVendorsRaw":["GLM-5.3","MiniMax-M2.5","Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-5-5","classifierPromptVersion":"v4","summaryPromptVersion":"v2","headline":null,"headlinePromptVersion":null,"cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"epssCheckedAt":null,"kevDateAdded":null,"advisoryAliases":null,"affectedPackagesSource":null,"affectedPackagesCheckedAt":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-11-06T00:06:13.000Z","fixReleasedAt":null,"daysToFix":null,"fixCheckedAt":null,"capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"advanced","impactType":["integrity","confidentiality"],"aiComponentTargeted":"agent","llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.95,"researchCategory":"preprint","atlasIds":["AML.T0051"]}}