AI Model Inference API Access
Description
Adversaries may gain access to a model via legitimate access to the inference API. Inference API access can be a source of information to the adversary (Discover AI Model Ontology, Discover AI Model Family), a means of staging the attack (Verify Attack, Craft Adversarial Data), or for introducing data to the target system for Impact (Evade AI Model, Erode AI Model Integrity). Many systems rely on the same models provided via an inference API, which means they share the same vulnerabilities. This is especially true of foundation models which are prohibitively resource intensive to train. Adversaries may use their access to model APIs to identify vulnerabilities such as jailbreaks or hallucinations and then target applications that use the same models.
Honesty-tier rationale
An access precondition, not an attack. There is no model behavior to enact — delivered as concept explainer.