DASF-R-3.3 — Label flipping
Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 20. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.
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Risk mechanism
Label-flipping attacks are a distinctive type of data poisoning where the attacker manipulates the labels of a fraction of the training data. In these attacks, the attacker changes the labels of specific training points, which can mislead the ML model during training. Even with constrained capabilities, these attacks have been shown to significantly degrade the system’s performance, demonstrating their potential to compromise the accuracy and reliability of ML models.
Applicability
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:
• Degraded AI system Performance • Degraded AI System Reliability • Degraded AI System Accuracy • Regulatory non-compliance • Loss of data integrity
Business:
• Financial Loss • Customer Retention • Legal fines • Regulatory Fines and Judgement • Business Interruption Costs
Controls
- DASF-5 — Control access to data and other objects
- DASF-8 — Encrypt data at rest
- DASF-9 — Encrypt data in transit
Source control guidance
• DASF 5: Control access to data and other objects for metadata encryption across all data assets • DASF 8: Encrypt data at rest • DASF 9: Encrypt data in transit
Investigate and verify
Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-3.3. 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.
| Framework | Source mapping |
|---|---|
| MITRE ATLAS as of Q3 2024 | AML.TA0011: Impact, disrupt availability or compromise integrity by manipulating business and operational processes |
| MITRE ATTACK as of Q3 2024 | no mapping |
| OWASP LLM Top 10 2025 | no mapping |
| OWASP ML Top 10 v0.3 | ML02:2023 Data Poisoning Attack<br>ML03:2023 Model Inversion Attack<br>ML04:2023 Membership Inference Attack<br>ML05:2023 Model Theft<br>ML08:2023 Model Skewing<br>ML09:2023 Output Integrity Attack<br>ML10:2023 Model Poisoning |
| OWASP Agentic AI – Threats and Mitigations | no mapping |
| NIST - 800- 53 - Rev 5 | AC-3:Access Enforcement, <br>AC-6:Least Privilege, <br>AU-2:Event Logging, <br>AU-6:Audit Record Review, Analysis, and Reporting, <br>SI-4:System Monitoring,<br>SI-7:Software, Firmware, and Information Integrity, <br>CM-2:Baseline Configuration, <br>CM-6:Configuration Settings |
| NIST 800-53 Controls Mapping Rationale | Integrity control mechanisms to protect against manipulation of labels in datasets. |
| HITRUST | no mapping |
| ENISA’s Securing ML Algorithms | Control all data used by the ML model.<br>Ensure reliable sources are used.<br>Use methods to clean the training dataset from suspicious samples.<br>Integrate poisoning control after the "model evaluation" phase.<br>Apply a RBAC model, respecting the least privileged principle.<br>Integrate ML specificities to awareness strategy and ensure all ML stakeholders are receiving it. |
| ISO 42001:2023 Controls Objectives and Controls (Annex A) | no mapping |
| ISO 27001:2022 Information Security Control Reference (Annex A) | A.5.15 Access control<br>A.8.2 Privileged access rights<br>A.8.3 Information access restriction<br>A.8.4 Access to source code<br>A.8.24 Use of cryptography |
| EU AI Act | no mapping |
| CSA MCP Security | (blank in source) |
| OWASP MCP TOP 10 | (blank in source) |