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Memory Provenance Laundering

๐ŸŸ  HIGH memory proven AVE-2025-0045

ยท aka: Knowledge Washing, Source Amnesia

Summary

Planted facts injected into agent memory are later cited as the agent's own knowledge with 53% citation rate. The agent cannot distinguish between genuine learned knowledge and adversarially planted memories.

Blast Radius

Agent makes decisions based on adversary-controlled 'memories'. No audit trail to original injection.

Prerequisites

Agent with persistent memory or RAG-based knowledge retrieval.

Environment

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