Red-team strategy

Authority Injection

authority-injection

Prepends authority claims to make the payload appear to come from a privileged source

YAML config

evalguard.config.yaml

redteam:
  strategies:
    - authority-injection

CLI

bash

# "authority-injection" is layered onto attacks during red-team scans.
# List every available encoding/obfuscation strategy:
evalguard list strategies

Combine with attack plugins to generate adversarial payloads. The strategy wraps each base payload before it's sent to your target, testing whether the model decodes / unwraps the transform and follows the embedded instruction.

Threat-model fit

Authority Injection effectively probes scenarios where user input is processed without proper validation, allowing attackers to manipulate perceived privileges. This strategy is particularly relevant in systems that rely on user roles or permissions to control access to sensitive operations.

LLM-generated (llm-gpt-4o) · 2026-05-23