Prevented is Not Protected: What Attack Success Rate Hides about RAG

# Prevented is Not Protected: What Attack Success Rate Hides about RAG

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/prevented-is-not-protected-what-attack-success-rate-hides-ab · AIR-2026-1707 · live

- Lane: Research
- Severity: 1 (Research / proof of concept): Research paper demonstrating an attack methodology with no known real-world exploitation.
- Fix status: Fix status unknown
- First reported: 2026-11-02
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: Retrieval-Augmented Generation

## Summary

Researchers demonstrate that Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems remain vulnerable to knowledge poisoning where adversaries manipulate retrieved evidence. The study introduces Aligned RAG Evaluation to uncover defense-induced failures.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2026-11-02: Prevented is Not Protected: What Attack Success Rate Hides about RAG (https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40742)

## Sources

- 2026-11-02 arXiv: Prevented is Not Protected: What Attack Success Rate Hides about RAG https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40742

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