The Fragility of Jailbreak Robustness Across Operational States
Jailbreak robustness scores measured in default LLM configurations may be misleading — this study shows defences degrade substantially under real-world operational states like tool use and multi-turn interactions.
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arXiv:2608.30748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing jailbreak evaluations typically characterize robustness using a single attack success rate (ASR) measured in a default configuration (the vanilla state). However, user-LLM interactions can induce diverse operational states beyond the vanilla state. In this work, we find that jailbreak robustness is highly fragile to operational-state variation: even when the attack remains fixed, changing only an ordinary system prompt not designed to aff
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises deploying LLMs with tool access or complex prompting chains may have a false sense of safety if robustness was only tested in vanilla configurations.
Re-evaluate your LLM safety testing to include operational states that mirror actual production configurations.
LLM safety guardrails tested under lab conditions may not hold in real-world deployments.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
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