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Memory Laundering

🟠 HIGH memory proven AVE-2025-0022

· aka: Provenance Laundering, Self-Citation Trust Escalation

Summary

Agent stores untrusted information, then retrieves it from its own memory. Because it's now 'self-generated', the trust score is elevated. 53% citation laundering rate.

Blast Radius

Trust model completely undermined. Poisoned facts become 'verified'.

Prerequisites

Agent with persistent memory and self-referential retrieval.

Environment

  • Frameworks: LangGraph
  • Models tested: [Available in NAIL SDK]
  • Multi-agent: Yes
  • Tools required: No
  • Memory required: Yes

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