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incidents/AIR-2025-0054

AI Model Tampering Risk via Exposed Container Registries

Attack on AI1 Research / proof of conceptSupply chainInfrastructure vulnerability

Security researchers identified thousands of misconfigured private container registries exposing unauthenticated AI model files. This exposure left sensitive models vulnerable to unauthorized inspection and malicious modification.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Supply chainprimary
    Malicious or backdoored models, poisoned packages, unsafe deserialization and other compromised AI dependencies.
  • Infrastructure vulnerability
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
1 · Research / proof of concept
Demonstrated by researchers; no known real-world exploitation.
targets
Open-weight model
products
private container registries
incident date
26 Sep 2023
first reported
22 Apr 2025
origin
MITRE ATLAS
Derived from MITRE ATLAS (Apache 2.0, © MITRE).
classifier confidence
0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
supply-chain · misconfiguration · container-registry
record
created 2026-10-18 06:55Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:55Z · json

Sources · 5

  1. 2025-04-22
    AI Model Tampering via Supply Chain Attack
    MITRE ATLAS · atlas.mitre.org/studies/AML.CS0028
  2. 2025-04-22
    Silent Sabotage: Weaponizing AI Models in Exposed Containers
    Trend Micro · trendmicro.com/vinfo/br/security/news/cyber-attacks/silent-sabotage-weaponizing-
  3. 2025-04-22
    Exposed Container Registries: A Potential Vector for Supply-Chain Attacks
    Trend Micro · trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/virtualization-and-cloud/exposed-container
  4. 2025-04-22
    Mining Through Mountains of Information and Risk: Containers and Exposed Container Registries
    Trend Micro · trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/virtualization-and-cloud/mining-through-mo
  5. 2025-04-22
    The Growing Threat of Unprotected Container Registries: An Urgent Call to Action
    dreher.in · dreher.in/blog/unprotected-container-registries

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