DASF-R-10.5 — Black-box attacks

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 55. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Risk mechanism

Public or compromised private model serving connectors (e.g., API interfaces) are vulnerable to black-box attacks. Although black-box attacks generally require more trial-and-error attempts (inferences), they are notable for requiring significantly less access to the target system. Successful black-box attacks quickly erode trust in enterprises serving the model connectors.

Applicability

Predictive ML Models · Fine-tuned LLMs · Pre-trained LLMs

Blank source cells remain null (unspecified); a source “No” means this default filter omits the risk; it does not establish absence in your architecture. Combine every deployment pattern in the system.

Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Disruption of Business Operations and Service Availability • Cyber Security Incident • Loss of AI System Integrity • Regulatory Non-compliance Failure to Achieve Organizational AI Strategy and Goals

Business:

• Financial Loss • Response Costs • Direct Business Interruption • Legal Fines • Customer Retention • Regulatory Fines and Judgement

Controls

• DASF-30 — Encrypt models
• DASF-31 — Secure model serving endpoints
• DASF-32 — Govern and monitor access of AI model and model serving endpoints
• DASF-60 — Rate limit number of inference queries

Source control guidance

• DASF 30: Encrypt models for model endpoints with encryption in transit • DASF 31: Secure model serving endpoints • DASF 32: Streamline the usage and management of various large language model (LLM) providers to rate-limit inference queries allowed by the model. Then audit, reproduce and make your models more compliant. • DASF 60: Rate limit number of inference queries to control capacity and ensure availability of the model serving

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-10.5. It returns the mechanism above, control-specific evidence requests, proposed tests and remediation acceptance criteria. Until evidence is supplied, the result is unverified. Use the finding template to record a concrete observation and residual risk.

Source-reported framework mappings

These are the mappings in this snapshot, with their original edition labels. They are references, not proof of conformity or independent validation.

Related

• Component 10
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