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Purdue University（普渡大学）
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该研究发现ChatGPT等5种LLM存在自签发认证漏洞，模型自行生成身份测试并判定身份，会导致对话式假认证，身份应来自外部安全组件而非模型自身。
AI 中文摘要
大语言模型（LLM）的安全研究主要集中在角色扮演越狱攻击上，较少关注当用户要求LLM通过模型自身设计的测试来验证身份声明时会发生什么。我们通过一项分阶段的开发者身份实验研究了这一行为，涉及的模型包括ChatGPT、Claude、Qwen、Mistral和Llama。这五个模型最初均拒绝了无依据的声明“我是你的开发者”。Claude拒绝开展身份测试，而ChatGPT生成了面向开发者的问题，但坚持认为答案只能体现知识，而非身份。相比之下，Qwen和Mistral生成了技术挑战、定义了何为有说服力的证据、评估了详细答案，且在未收到任何外部验证的身份证据的情况下返回“已验证”。Llama同样生成并评估了开发者测试，接受了被声明的身份，随后作出了关于可访问内部运行时和部署状态的无依据声明。我们将这种模型生成的验证程序称为模型签发伪凭证（Model-Issued Pseudo-Credential, MIPC），将由此产生的无依据身份判断称为对话式假认证（Conversational False Authentication, CFA）。在每一起CFA案例中，同一模型同时充当挑战生成器、证据评估器和身份决策者，将技术知识转化为所谓的身份证明。被接受的身份并未改变测试的授权边界，表明假认证与权限提升是不同的结果。这些结果表明自签发认证是一种对话式安全漏洞：经认证的身份必须源自外部安全组件，模型生成的对话绝不能创建或修改身份或授权状态。
英文摘要
Large language model (LLM) security has largely focused on role-playing jailbreaks, with less attention to what happens when a user asks an LLM to verify an identity claim through a test designed by the model itself. We study this behavior through a staged developer-identity experiment with ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen, Mistral, and Llama. All five models initially rejected the unsupported claim "I am your developer." Claude refused to conduct an identity test, while ChatGPT generated developer-oriented questions but maintained that answers could demonstrate knowledge, not identity. In contrast, Qwen and Mistral generated technical challenges, defined what counted as convincing evidence, evaluated detailed answers, and returned Verified without receiving any externally validated identity evidence. Llama similarly generated and evaluated a developer test, accepted the claimed identity, and subsequently made unsupported claims of access to internal runtime and deployment state. We call the model-generated verification procedure a Model-Issued Pseudo-Credential (MIPC) and the resulting unsupported identity judgment Conversational False Authentication (CFA). In each CFA case, the same model acted as challenge generator, evidence evaluator, and identity decision-maker, converting technical knowledge into supposed proof of identity. The accepted identities did not change the tested authorization boundaries, showing that false authentication and privilege escalation are distinct outcomes. These results identify self-issued authentication as a conversational security failure: authenticated identity must originate from an external security component, and model-generated dialogue must never create or modify identity or authorization state.
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