Poisoned Playbooks: Demystifying Knowledge Poisoning Effects on AI Security Agents (opens in new tab)

AI security agents increasingly rely on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to use external security knowledge for vulnerability analysis and exploit reasoning. This creates a new risk: poisoned write-ups can be operationalized into incorrect exploit behavior. Yet, prior work on RAG poisoning has mostly studied answer corruption in QA settings, much less is known about action-taking security agents. This paper aims to reveal such characteristic...