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arxiv: 2605.01449 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-02 · 💻 cs.CR · cs.AI

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VisInject: Disruption != Injection -- A Dual-Dimension Evaluation of Universal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Models

Pang Liu, Yingjie Lao

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keywords universal adversarial attacksvision-language modelsprompt injectionadversarial evaluationmultimodal securityinfluence versus injectionattack success metricsdual-axis evaluation
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The pith

Universal adversarial attacks on vision-language models disrupt outputs far more often than they inject specific target concepts.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper argues that reported success rates for universal adversarial attacks on aligned VLMs conflate two separate outcomes: any change to the model's response and the actual emission of an attacker-chosen target idea. Using a dual evaluation across thousands of trials on four open models, the work finds output disruption in roughly two-thirds of cases but any non-trivial injection in under one percent. This separation matters because it shows that the visual channel is not yet a reliable route for precise prompt injection despite high single-metric numbers in prior reports. The authors supply an open dataset and exact cache so others can verify the counts directly.

Core claim

The central claim is that influence and precise injection are distinct dimensions whose rates diverge sharply: across 6615 pairs, programmatic output drift appears in 66.4 percent of cases while LLM-judged injection reaches only 0.756 percent at any non-none tier and 0.030 percent verbatim. The evaluation combines a deterministic Ratcliff-Obershelp string-similarity score for influence with a four-tier ordinal judge (none/weak/partial/confirmed) for injection, calibrated to substantial agreement with a second model. Injections that occur cluster on screenshot-style carriers whose content already invites transcription, while one tested model shows no drift at all under the chosen perturbation

What carries the argument

Dual-axis evaluation that measures Influence via deterministic string drift and Precise Injection via a calibrated four-tier LLM ordinal judgment on whether the attacker's chosen target concept appears in the output.

Load-bearing premise

The four-tier LLM judge correctly determines whether the attacker's specific target concept was emitted by the target vision-language model.

What would settle it

Manual review of the 50 pairs the judge labeled non-none to check whether the target concept is actually present in the generated text, or re-judging the same pairs with a different high-performance model.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.01449 by Pang Liu, Yingjie Lao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The three-stage VisInject pipeline. Stage 1 runs the Universal Adversarial Attack (UAA) of Rahmatullaev et al. (24) to obtain a single universal adversarial image against N white-box VLMs; Stage 2 uses the pretrained AnyAttack encoder-decoder of Zhang et al. (29) to transport that signal onto an arbitrary clean photo under an L∞ budget; Stage 3 evaluates each (clean, adversarial) response pair along two in… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: All seven test images at the same scale. Three are natural photos (dog, cat, kpop); four are screenshots with embedded text (bill, webpage, code, chat). The same images are reused across all 21 Stage-1 runs. 5.4 VLMs and ensembles (the 4 models, 3 configurations) We use four open multimodal models. Three are transformer-style VLMs of small-to-mid size (Qwen2.5-VL-3B (3), Qwen2-VL-2B (28), DeepSeek-VL-1.3B … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Mean Output-Affected score (programmatic baseline) by target VLM. The architecture matters far more than size: BLIP-2’s Q-Former bottleneck is what filters the perturbation, not its parameter count. Target VLM Disruption (prog) Disruption (LLM) Strict inj. Broad inj. Pairs Qwen2.5-VL-3B 100.0% 79.2% 0.091% 0.907% 2,205 Qwen2-VL-2B 100.0% 56.2% 0.000% 0.952% 735 DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 98.6% 63.0% 0.000% 1.565% 1,… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Case A. The adversarial image is perceptually indistinguishable from the clean one, but the per-pixel difference (right, amplified) reveals a structured noise pattern. Clean response (excerpt). The screenshot shows a code editor with a Python script open ... import os import sys import time import socket import struct ... Adversarial response (excerpt). The image appears to be a screenshot of a computer sc… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Case B. The clean response identifies a Shipping Bill with vendor / customer / amount fields. The adversarial response describes the same image as a bill payment receipt and hallucinates account-number and bank fields. Clean response (excerpt). The image is a screenshot of a document, specifically a "Shipping Bill" from Zertron Corporation ... Adversarial response (excerpt). The image displays a bill payme… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: HuggingFace dataset download counter (screenshot taken April 2026, ∼ 300 downloads in the first month after release). 9 Conclusion We composed two existing universal-attack methods — the Universal Adversarial Attack of Rah￾matullaev et al. (24) and the AnyAttack encoder–decoder of Zhang et al. (29) — with a dual-axis LLM-judged evaluation that scores Influence (drift) and Precise Injection (payload deliver… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Universal adversarial attacks on aligned multimodal large language models are increasingly reported with attack success rates in the 60-80% range, suggesting the visual modality is highly vulnerable to imperceptible perturbations as a prompt-injection channel. We argue that this number conflates two distinct events: (i) the model's output was perturbed (Influence), and (ii) the attacker's chosen target concept was actually emitted (Precise Injection). We compose two existing techniques -- Universal Adversarial Attack and AnyAttack -- under an $L_{inf}$ budget of 16/255, and we add a dual-axis evaluation: a deterministic Ratcliff-Obershelp drift score for Influence (programmatic baseline) plus a 4-tier ordinal categorical none/weak/partial/confirmed for Precise Injection. The judge is DeepSeek-V4-Pro in thinking mode, calibrated against Claude Opus 4.7 with Cohen's $\kappa$ = 0.77 on the injection axis (substantial agreement); the entire 4475-entry SHA-256 input cache ships with the dataset so reviewers can re-derive paper numbers bit-exact without an API key. Across 6615 pairs over four open VLMs, seven attack prompts, and seven test images, the two axes diverge by roughly 90$\times$: 66.4% of pairs are programmatically disturbed (LLM-judged 46.6% at the substantial-or-complete tier), but only 0.756% (50/6615) reach any non-none injection tier and only 0.030% (2/6615) verbatim. The few injections that do land cluster on screenshot- or document-style carriers whose semantics already invite text transcription. BLIP-2 shows \emph{zero detectable drift} at $L_{inf}$ = 16/255 across all 2205 pairs even when used as a Stage-1 surrogate. We release the full dataset -- 21 universal images, 147 adversarial photos, 6,615 response pairs, the v3 dual-axis judge results, and the cache at huggingface.co/datasets/jeffliulab/visinject.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that reported high success rates (60-80%) for universal adversarial attacks on vision-language models conflate two distinct phenomena: output perturbation (Influence, measured via Ratcliff-Obershelp drift) versus actual emission of the attacker's chosen target concept (Precise Injection, measured via 4-tier LLM judgment). Across 6615 pairs from four open VLMs, seven attack prompts, and seven test images under L_inf=16/255, it reports 66.4% influence (46.6% at substantial tier) but only 0.756% (50/6615) non-none injection and 0.030% verbatim, with successful cases clustering on document-style carriers; BLIP-2 shows zero drift. The work releases the full dataset, 21 universal images, 147 adversarial photos, response pairs, judge results, and SHA-256 cache for bit-exact reproduction.

Significance. If the central divergence holds, the result is significant because it reframes the vulnerability of the visual modality in VLMs as a prompt-injection channel, showing that most 'success' is mere disturbance rather than precise control. The empirical scale (6615 pairs), inter-judge calibration (Cohen's κ=0.77), and especially the release of the complete dataset plus SHA-256 cache for reproduction are clear strengths that enable direct verification and falsification.

major comments (1)
  1. [Dual-axis evaluation] Dual-axis evaluation (abstract and methodology): The 4-tier Precise Injection rubric (none/weak/partial/confirmed) applied by DeepSeek-V4-Pro in thinking mode, even with reported κ=0.77 against Claude Opus 4.7, requires the judge to determine whether the attacker's specific target concept was emitted. Systematic under-detection of paraphrases or contextually embedded targets would directly inflate the 90× divergence (66.4% influence vs. 0.756% non-none injection). The released cache allows re-running the judge but does not address whether the rubric itself misses valid injections; additional borderline-case examples or a small human-validated subset would be needed to confirm the low injection rate is not an artifact of the classifier.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The text references 'the entire 4475-entry SHA-256 input cache' alongside results over 6615 pairs; explicitly state the relationship (e.g., how many responses per cached input) to avoid reader confusion.
  2. [Results] Results discussion: The observation that successful injections cluster on screenshot- or document-style carriers is interesting but would benefit from a short quantitative breakdown (e.g., fraction of test images that are document-style and their contribution to the 50 non-none cases).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful and constructive review. The concern about potential under-detection in the Precise Injection judge is well-taken, and we address it directly below.

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  1. Referee: Dual-axis evaluation (abstract and methodology): The 4-tier Precise Injection rubric (none/weak/partial/confirmed) applied by DeepSeek-V4-Pro in thinking mode, even with reported κ=0.77 against Claude Opus 4.7, requires the judge to determine whether the attacker's specific target concept was emitted. Systematic under-detection of paraphrases or contextually embedded targets would directly inflate the 90× divergence (66.4% influence vs. 0.756% non-none injection). The released cache allows re-running the judge but does not address whether the rubric itself misses valid injections; additional borderline-case examples or a small human-validated subset would be needed to confirm the low injection rate is not an artifact of the classifier.

    Authors: We agree that validating the judge against paraphrases and embedded targets is necessary to rule out systematic under-detection. The rubric explicitly defines 'partial' for contextually embedded or paraphrased emissions of the target concept, and the thinking-mode prompt requires the judge to perform semantic reasoning rather than surface matching. The κ=0.77 reflects substantial agreement with a second strong model, but we recognize this leaves room for edge-case disagreement. In the revision we will add an appendix subsection containing 12-15 annotated borderline examples (both correctly and incorrectly classified paraphrases and embeddings) with the judge's full chain-of-thought. We will also report a human validation on a random subset of 150 response pairs, where two authors independently apply the identical 4-tier rubric; we will report per-tier agreement with the LLM judge and any systematic discrepancies. These additions will be included in the revised manuscript and supplementary material. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical counts with released data

full rationale

The paper reports experimental results from applying composed universal attacks to four VLMs across 6615 pairs and measuring two axes (programmatic drift for influence; 4-tier LLM judge for precise injection). No equations, derivations, or predictions are presented that reduce to inputs by construction. The judge is an external model (DeepSeek-V4-Pro) calibrated against Claude with reported κ=0.77; full SHA-256 cache and dataset are released for bit-exact re-derivation. No self-citations, ansatzes, or fitted parameters are load-bearing in any claimed chain. This is a standard empirical evaluation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The evaluation depends on the chosen perturbation budget, the string similarity metric for influence, and the assumption that the LLM judge faithfully measures injection success.

free parameters (2)
  • L_inf perturbation budget
    Set to 16/255 as the imperceptible limit for the composed attacks.
  • Injection tier definitions
    The four ordinal categories (none/weak/partial/confirmed) are defined by the authors for the LLM judge.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption DeepSeek-V4-Pro in thinking mode, calibrated at Cohen's kappa=0.77 against Claude Opus 4.7, reliably assigns the 4-tier injection labels
    The paper relies on this judge for the precise injection axis without additional human validation reported in the abstract.

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