S-07Memory Poisoning

/security/memory-poisoning

An attacker plants content that gets written to long-term memory — and every future session inherits it as fact.

Key insight

Memory is an injection that persists. Provenance is the antidote: a “fact” that remembers it came from an untrusted webpage can be treated accordingly, forever.

Failure mode

Provenance-free stores: once written, attacker text and user truth are indistinguishable.

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