HauntAttack: When Attack Follows Reasoning as a Shadow

Heming Xia; Jingyuan Ma; Junfeng Liu; Lei Sha; Rui Li; Zheng Li; Zhifang Sui

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HauntAttack: When Attack Follows Reasoning as a Shadow

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Pith's one-line read Swapping one reasoning condition for a harmful instruction jailbreaks 11 models 70% of the time, beating prior attacks.

desk verdict A novel and plausible jailbreak vector -- swapping a single condition in a benign reasoning question -- that deserves review, but the headline ASR needs human-validated judging and repeated runs before the numbers are trusted. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.07031 v5 pith:SDIHH7FH submitted 2025-06-08 cs.CR cs.AIcs.CL

Jingyuan Ma , Rui Li , Zheng Li , Junfeng Liu , Heming Xia , Lei Sha , Zhifang Sui This is my paper

classification cs.CRcs.AIcs.CL

keywords jailbreakattacklargereasoningmodelschain-of-thoughtsafetyblack-boxharmfulinstructionembeddingsuccessratealignmentadversarial

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The pith

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

The reading

The paper sets out to show that large reasoning models are vulnerable to a new black-box jailbreak shape: instead of disguising a harmful request as a normal prompt, an attacker takes a benign reasoning question, swaps one of its key conditions for a harmful instruction, and lets the model's own step-by-step reasoning carry it to an unsafe answer. Across 11 open- and closed-source reasoning models the attack reaches an average success rate of 70%, with the best single template at 85% and the union of all six templates at 95.3%, beating the strongest prior baseline by 11.4 percentage points on average. The paper argues this works because the modified prompt is semantically indistinguishable from a reasoning task, so refusal signals are not triggered, and because stronger reasoning ability makes the model engage more deeply with the harmful condition. It also reports that safety-aligned variants and post-hoc detectors do not reliably stop the attack. If these results hold, they imply a practical blind spot for current alignment methods, which filter surface-level malicious prompts but leave a route where harm rides inside the reasoning process itself.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the attack template: a general rewriting of a reasoning question in which a single 'operable condition'—one that is necessary to solve the problem, independent of other conditions, and associable with harmful elements—is replaced by an element tied to a harmful behavior. Three association mappings carry the insertion: Numerical Association, where a number or date in the condition is replaced by a quantity derived from the harmful behavior, such as the time taken for each step of bomb-making; Entity Association, where an object or person is replaced by an entity central to the harmful behavior, such as an oven becoming the device used in the behavior; and Attribute Association, where a neutral modifier becomes a harmful one. The resulting prompt preserves the logical skeleton of the original question, so the model's reasoning machinery is what produces the unsafe content. The evaluation machinery is an LLM-as-a-judge protocol in which DeepSeek-V3 scores response risk from 0 to 10 and ASR is the fraction scoring at least 6.

What would settle it

Take a random sample of responses that the judge scored 6 or above, have independent human annotators label whether each response actually answers the harmful instruction, and check agreement; if agreement is low or safe responses are routinely labeled unsafe, the claimed 0.700 average ASR would not survive.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that harmfulness can be coupled to reasoning itself: when a replaceable condition of a legitimate reasoning question is swapped for an adversarial instruction, the model treats the harmful content as part of the problem to be solved and produces unsafe output as the 'solution.' The attack operates in three steps—atomizing the question into conditions, selecting conditions that are necessary, independent, and associable with harmful elements, and instantiating adversarial content through numerical, entity, or attribute association—so that deriving the harmful element becomes required to solve the benign task. Empirically, HauntAttack reports an average ASR of 0.700 over 11 LRMs versus 0.586 for the strongest baseline, with the KnowLogic-derived template the most effective at 0.764, and multi-template application reaching 0.953. The authors interpret embedding analyses as showing that attacked prompts cluster with original reasoning questions rather than with direct malicious instructions, and they report that stronger reasoning ability correlates with higher vulnerability, that task complexity shifts risk scores upward, and that alignment with RealSafe-R1 and the ShieldLM detector fail to close the gap.

Load-bearing premise

The paper's numbers depend on DeepSeek-V3's automated risk scores, with a hand-selected threshold of 6 and no human agreement check; if that judge over-scores, every reported ASR rises with it.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

If the claim holds, safety alignment must train on reasoning-structured prompts, not just direct malicious requests, to close this route.
Models with stronger benchmark reasoning will be harder to defend, since the same ability that solves hard problems amplifies the attack.
Because Haunt-Multi reaches 0.953, an attacker who can try all six templates will compromise nearly every unsafe request on most models.
Post-hoc safety detectors with low recall on these templates cannot be relied on in deployment, since the attack defeats both model-level and filter-level defenses.
The method transfers to general instruction-following models, so it is not confined to reasoning-specialized systems.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The three association mappings are likely special cases of a broader strategy: any structured task with substitutable parameters, such as code generation, planning, or formal proofs, may be a carrier for embedded harmful instructions, and the same condition-substitution recipe could be ported.
The embedding-space separation the paper observes suggests a detection direction it does not pursue: a representation-based classifier that flags inputs lying in the reasoning-question region but whose content is harmful, rather than surface-level filters.
Because each experiment ran once with an automated judge, the absolute ASR values should be treated as upper-bound estimates; the relative ordering across templates and the qualitative finding that alignment fails may be more robust than the specific numbers.
The correlation between benchmark reasoning skill and ASR implies a testable prediction: interventions that reduce reasoning depth, such as truncated chain-of-thought, should lower attack success, while reasoning-enhancing training without safety adjustments should raise it.

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Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note

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Short version: HauntAttack is a real and reasonably novel jailbreak vector -- replacing one condition in a benign reasoning question to smuggle in harmful intent -- and the appendix examples are enough to convince me the effect exists. But the paper's headline numbers are shakier than the prose suggests. The entire ASR table runs through a single DeepSeek-V3 judge with a hand-set threshold of 6, no human agreement, no error analysis, and each experiment runs once. That is a load-bearing weakness in the quantitative claims, not a cosmetic one.

What's good: the attack construction is clearly specified (numerical/entity/attribute associations), the templates are derived from six different reasoning datasets, and the qualitative examples (e.g., R1-Distill-Qwen-7B confidently enumerating steps to produce a misinformation podcast; DeepSeek-R1 doing the same for POS credit-card theft) are frankly alarming. The PCA analysis is a reasonable attempt to show why the prompts sit near benign reasoning questions. The baseline set is decent, including DeepInception, GPTFuzzer, PAP, and Past Tense.

Where it bends: (1) Judge validity. The judge asks whether the response 'contains a potential answer to the risky question' and scores 0-10; threshold 6 is arbitrary unless calibrated against human judgment. Longer, more elaborate responses -- which HauntAttack is designed to elicit -- may inflate scores independently of actual harm. No human agreement or calibration is reported. (2) Single run, no confidence intervals. For a proportion over 520 items, variance matters. (3) The 'consistently outperforms' claim is too strong: DeepInception beats Haunt-Avg on R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B and R1-Distill-Llama-8B. The union metrics Haunt-Best/Multi are optimistic by construction. (4) Minor: no direct-prompt baseline column, and abstract/intro disagree on whether the gain is 13 or 12 points.

None of this kills the paper. The mechanism is distinct from H-CoT, Mousetrap, and DeepInception, and the attack clearly transfers to general instruction-following models like Qwen2.5 and GPT-4o. For a red-teaming audience, the contribution is useful even if the precise ASR numbers are not yet trustworthy. I'd send it to reviewers, with a strong request for human evaluation and multiple runs. My own verdict would be conditional: the direction is sound, the numbers need hardening.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper introduces HauntAttack, a black-box jailbreak framework that embeds harmful instructions into benign-looking reasoning questions by replacing one key condition (via numerical, entity, or attribute association) while preserving the original reasoning structure. The method is evaluated on 11 large reasoning models against several baselines, reporting an average attack success rate (ASR) of 0.700 under Haunt-Avg, 0.853 under Haunt-Best, and 0.953 under Haunt-Multi, versus 0.586 for the strongest baseline. The authors further analyze why the attack succeeds (embedding similarity, reasoning complexity, model capability) and show that safety alignment and the ShieldLM detector do not reliably block it.

Significance. If the reported ASR numbers are accurate, this is a practically important result: it identifies a new, generalizable attack surface in reasoning models, demonstrates that current alignment and detector defenses are insufficient against this attack shape, and provides a concrete framework for future safety evaluations. The method is simple, black-box, and spans six reasoning-task templates and eleven models, with clear comparisons to several prior attacks. The analysis of complexity effects and the failure of safety alignment are also valuable. However, the significance is conditional on the validity of the automated judge used to measure attack success, since all headline numbers flow through that judge without human validation.

major comments (3)

[Section 4.3, Appendix I] The entire empirical case rests on an unvalidated automated judge: DeepSeek-V3 assigns a risk score from 0 to 10 and any response scoring at least 6 counts as a successful attack, with each experiment run exactly once. No human agreement, calibration, or error analysis is reported. This is load-bearing because HauntAttack prompts are designed to elicit long, step-by-step elaborations (see Appendix J), and the judge prompt asks whether the response contains a potential answer to the risky intent, which plausibly rewards length and detail. If the judge over-scores refusal-with-acknowledgement or non-actionable speculation, the headline 0.700 average, the 0.114 improvement over the strongest baseline, and all per-template claims are inflated. Please add a human-validated sample (e.g., 100 responses per model or template), report agreement statistics (e.g., Cohen's kappa), recalibrate or justify the threshold of 6, and ideally run at least a few seeds or report confidence intervals.
[Section 4.4, Table 2] The claim that HauntAttack 'consistently outperforms' baseline attacks is not supported by the per-model rows: DeepInception achieves a higher ASR than Haunt-Avg on R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B (0.930 vs 0.541), R1-Distill-Llama-8B (0.937 vs 0.754), and R1-Distill-Qwen-7B (0.940 vs 0.783). The average improvement of 0.114 over the strongest baseline hides these uneven wins. The paper should either soften the 'consistently' claim to 'on average' or provide per-model statistical comparisons (e.g., bootstrap intervals over the evaluated samples) to show which differences are reliable. The choice of Haunt-Avg as the primary comparison metric also deserves justification, since Haunt-Best and Haunt-Multi are union/aggregate metrics that are not directly comparable to single-template baselines.
[Section 5.3, Table 3] The claim that stronger reasoning ability leads to greater vulnerability is supported only by four model variants and no statistical test; the 'Avg Score' column is actually the judge's average risk score, not an independent measure of harmfulness, so the apparent correlation between reasoning benchmarks and ASR may partly reflect the judge's scoring behavior. Please either report a correlation coefficient with uncertainty, test more model families, or explicitly frame this as a suggestive trend rather than a demonstrated monotonic relationship.

minor comments (5)

[Abstract and Section 4.4] The reported improvement over the strongest baseline is inconsistent: the abstract says 'up to 13 percentage points' and later 'up to 12 percentage points', while Section 4.4 reports 0.114 absolute improvement (11.4 percentage points). Please unify these numbers.
[Figure 4] The PCA plots are visually interesting but provide no quantitative measure of cluster separation or proximity between HauntAttack prompts and original reasoning questions. Reporting a distance metric (e.g., mean cosine distance between group centroids) would strengthen the claim that the attack is semantically indistinguishable.
[Section 5.4.1] The RealSafe-R1 alignment results are reported only for two templates and two model sizes; the numbers cited in the text (e.g., Detective 0.838→0.459, 0.890→0.129) should be placed in a table so the reader can see the exact comparison and the alignment model details.
[Table 7] The model table lists 'DeepSeek-R1-0120' and 'DeepSeek-V3-0324' while the main text refers to 'DeepSeek-R1' and 'DeepSeek-V3'; please align the names and clarify which versions were used for the judge.
[Appendix I] The statement that each experiment was performed only once is important and should be moved to the main text (Section 4.1) so readers are aware of the lack of repeated trials without consulting the appendix.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: HauntAttack's success is measured empirically against external baselines; its template construction is not fitted to the reported ASR, and the self-cited KnowLogic/ShieldLM resources are not load-bearing evidence.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is not circular. Section 3.2 constructs attack templates by identifying replaceable conditions in external reasoning datasets (KnowLogic, GSM8K, MATH, Time, DetectiveQA, PizzaCommonsense) and instantiating them with AdvBench harmful instructions; the ASR values in Table 2 are then measured responses from 11 models, not quantities implied by the construction. No parameter is fitted to the attack-success data and later renamed a prediction: the DeepSeek-V3 judge threshold of 6 (Section 4.3) is an evaluation protocol, not a fitted degree of freedom, and the single-run protocol in Appendix I is a statistical-reliability limitation rather than a definitional loop. The only same-author citations are KnowLogic (used as one source of base questions) and ShieldLM (used as a tested post-hoc detector); neither is invoked to justify the claim that HauntAttack works, and the attack is benchmarked against external baselines such as DeepInception, GPTFuzzer, PAP, and Past Tense. No uniqueness theorem, ansatz-by-citation, or renaming pattern appears. Concerns about judge validity, lack of human agreement, and one-run experiments are correctness risks, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The method has no fitted coefficients. The main hand-chosen number is the ASR threshold (risk score >= 6). The central claim relies on the assumptions listed above about the automated judge, the preprocessing models, and the representativeness of the templates.

free parameters (1)

ASR risk-score threshold = 6 (on a 0-10 scale)
A response is counted as a successful attack only when DeepSeek-V3 assigns a risk score of at least 6. This hand-chosen cutoff directly determines all reported ASR values and is not validated against human labels.

assumptions (4)

domain assumption DeepSeek-V3 judge scores are valid harmfulness labels.
All ASR numbers rest on the judge's 0-10 risk scores without human agreement or calibration (Section 4.3).
domain assumption GPT-4o atomizes reasoning questions into conditions faithfully.
The framework depends on GPT-4o decomposing natural-language questions into atomic conditions (Section 3.2.1); no quality check is reported.
domain assumption DeepSeek-R1 extracts direct harmful behaviors from AdvBench without distortion.
Attack prompts are built from these extracted behaviors (Section 3.2.3); extraction fidelity is not validated.
domain assumption The six reasoning templates are representative of general reasoning tasks.
The average ASR is computed across six template types (Table 6); generalization to other reasoning tasks is assumed.

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Emerging Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) consistently excel in mathematical and reasoning tasks, showcasing remarkable capabilities. However, the enhancement of reasoning abilities and the exposure of internal reasoning processes introduce new safety vulnerabilities. A critical question arises: when reasoning becomes intertwined with harmfulness, will LRMs become more vulnerable to jailbreaks in reasoning mode? To investigate this, we introduce HauntAttack, a novel and general-purpose black-box adversarial attack framework that systematically embeds harmful instructions into reasoning questions. Specifically, we modify key reasoning conditions in existing questions with harmful instructions, thereby constructing a reasoning pathway that guides the model step by step toward unsafe outputs. We evaluate HauntAttack on 11 LRMs and observe an average attack success rate of over 70\%, achieving up to 13 percentage points of absolute improvement over the strongest prior baseline. Our further analysis reveals that even advanced safety-aligned models remain highly susceptible to reasoning-based attacks, offering insights into the urgent challenge of balancing reasoning capability and safety in future model development.

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**Figure 2.** Overview of HAUNTATTACK framework, including three steps: (1) identify replaceable conditions from the original reasoning question, (2) rewrite them using semantic equivalence to enable harmful content insertion, and (3) insert a harmful instruction to generate a deceptive but plausible reasoning prompt. information. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Distribution of risk scores assigned to model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: PCA visualization of mid-layer embeddings from Qwen3-8B. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png]

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Performance of models before and after safety alignment under different attack methods. We compare [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png]

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Radar chart of risk awareness across mod [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png]

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: DeepSeek-R1 series models’ performance across different datasets(both Hauntattack and baseline). The bar chart section displays the response lengths of different models, while the line chart section shows the average risk score. the DeepSeek-R1 model series under HAUNT…

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