DASF-R-13.1 — Memory Poisoning

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 65. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 3.0.

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Risk mechanism

Memory Poisoning involves exploiting an AI's memory systems, both short and long-term, to introduce malicious or false data and exploit the agent’s context. This can lead to altered decision-making and unauthorized operations.

Applicability

Agentic AI

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Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Unauthorised Alteration of AI System Outputs • Unauthorised Access to Private Information • Unintended Model Outputs • Reduced Organisation Trust in Model Effectiveness and Performance • Regulatory Non-compliance • Failure to Achieve Organizational AI Strategy and Goals

Business:

• Financial Loss • Regulatory Fines and Judgement • Legal Fines • Customer Retention

Controls

• DASF-1 — SSO with IdP and MFA
• DASF-2 — Sync users and groups
• DASF-3 — Restrict access using IP access lists
• DASF-4 — Restrict access using private link
• DASF-5 — Control access to data and other objects
• DASF-24 — Control access to models and model assets
• DASF-31 — Secure model serving endpoints
• DASF-34 — Run models in multiple layers of isolation
• DASF-37 — Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging models
• DASF-46 — Store and retrieve embeddings securely
• DASF-54 — Implement AI guardrails
• DASF-55 — Monitor audit logs
• DASF-64 — Limit access from AI models and agents
• DASF-65 — Implement end-to-end AI traceability
• DASF-67 — Federate authentication
• DASF-71 — Log and register AI agents
• DASF-72 — Securely store and reuse agent state

Source control guidance

• DASF 1: SSO with IdP and MFA to limit who can access your data and AI platform • DASF 2: Sync users and groups to inherit your organizational roles to access data • DASF 3: Restrict access using IP access lists that can authenticate to your data and AI platform • DASF 4: Restrict access using private link as strong controls that limit the source for inbound requests • DASF 5: Control access to data and other objects for permissions model across all data assets to protect data and sources • DASF 24: Control access to models and model assets, AI agents • DASF 31: Secure model serving endpoints • DASF 34: Run models and agents in multiple layers of isolation with unprivileged VMs and network segregation. Protects back-end internal systems. Implement memory content validation, session isolation, robust authentication mechanisms for memory access, anomaly detection systems, and regular memory sanitization routines. • DASF 37: Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging prompts • DASF 46: Store and retrieve embeddings securely to protect vector store memory — a primary long-term memory store for agents — from unauthorized access and injection • DASF 54: Implement LLM guardrails to prevent unwanted and unsafe data in requests and responses • DASF 55: Monitor audit logs to detect unauthorized reads and writes to agent memory stores • DASF 64: Limit access from AI models and agents, applying least privilege to what agents can read from and write to memory, limiting the blast radius of a poisoning attempt • DASF 65: Implement end-to-end AI traceability • DASF 67: Federate authentication • DASF 71: Log and register AI agents to provide traceability on which agent modified memory, enabling attribution and forensics • DASF 72: Securely store and reuse agent state to protect short-term agent memory (conversation history, decision logs, temporary tasks) within a governed perimeter rather than insecure external stores

Additional controls to consider: Please see the companion compendium document for a collection of third-party tools.

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-13.1. 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

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