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Yansong Gao

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Review Sep 2026

Shifting from Injection to Interaction: Rethinking Web Security in the Age of LLMs and Beyond

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming integral to web applications and browser agents, transforming online interactions while introducing new attack vectors and reshaping longstanding web vulnerabilities. Classical threats such as cross-site scripting (XSS) can be amplified through LLM-mediated interactions, while LLM-specific vulnerabilities can propagate across web applications, introducing attacks such as prompt injection. Securing modern web systems therefore requires understanding interactions between traditional and LLM-specific threats across the system lifecycle. Unlike prior surveys treating web and LLM security separately, this survey provides a unified analysis of how LLMs amplify web vulnerabilities across client-side, server-side, and pipeline layers while evaluating defenses and their limitations. The analysis examines extending NIST and ISO/IEC AI security frameworks to the security needs of LLM-enabled web environments. Three unresolved challenges are identified: adversarial natural-language instructions, autonomous agent security, and post-deployment security through continuous monitoring and adaptation. An LLM-aware monitoring and control framework is proposed, integrating semantic input validation, prompt integrity protection, output isolation, agent governance, and runtime monitoring. This unified perspective characterizes the evolving threat landscape and outlines future directions for secure AI-enabled web systems.

Nivedita Singh, Alsharif Abuadbba, Yansong Gao et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

JITterFlip: Uncovering Fault Attack Surfaces in JIT-Compiled LLM Serving

LLMs are widely deployed through cloud-hosted inference services, where Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation is used to reduce recurring framework and GPU-launch overhead. JIT serving introduces a host-side control plane that selects compiled artifacts and orchestrates their execution on the GPU. Meanwhile, the shared cloud setting has motivated a growing body of bit-flip attacks (BFAs) against LLM/DNN inference. Most existing BFAs target model parameters or weights and require model-specific knowledge. A smaller body of work reduces this dependency by faulting executable code, yet still corrupts code that directly implements model computation, limiting their attack effect to inference depletion. We present JITterFlip, the first BFA targeting the host-side JIT serving control plane of GPU-based LLM inference. By faulting CPU-resident serving decisions rather than model computation, JITterFlip enables both gibberish output generation and a correct-output sponge attack. To identify exploitable targets in a large JIT compiler stack, JITterFlip develops a decision-guided fault-vulnerable code analysis. Across four text and multimodal LLM workloads, the identified vulnerable code faults exhibit cross-model transferability, produce gibberish outputs with PPL ratios of $15.45\times$ to $2.48{\times}10^{6}\times$, and demonstrate correct-output sponge attacks with latency amplification of $2.03\times$ to $181.90\times$. JITterFlip also bypasses recent BFA defenses for LLMs while retaining both attack effects. Last, we demonstrate end-to-end Rowhammer attacks across four LLMs: a single bit flip in CPU-resident branch code propagates across the CPU-GPU boundary to disrupt GPU-executed inference without direct access to GPU memory, reaching up to $7.23{\times}10^{6}\times$ PPL amplification or $124.97\times$ latency amplification while preserving the exact generated output.

Tai-Rui Wang, Zhi Zhang, Yansong Gao et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

From Multiplicity to Vulnerability: Privacy Amplification Risk from One-Dataset-Multiple-Model Exposure

This work establishes a theoretical framework that proves that privacy leakage accumulates as more ODMM models are exposed, and proposes PRIME (Privacy Amplification RIsk from One-Dataset-Multiple-Model Exposure) to systematically assess this risk and quantify the resulting leakage using membership inference attacks (MIAs).

Qirui Huang, Na Li, Hong-Sheng Hu et al. · 0 citations

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