Real-Time Message Cache Inconsistency During Large Redis Cluster Migration
Migrating message caches between Redis clusters caused race conditions and state drift between cache and Cassandra persistence layer.
Illustrative scenario, not a real incident
What happened
Contributing factors stated by the source
- Migrating message caches between Redis clusters caused race conditions and state drift bet...
The failure pattern
Watch the pattern: Indirect prompt injection changes agent behavior
Related standards
CollectSEA's mapping through this incident's failure pattern; not an official determination by the standards bodies.
- ASI01 Agent Goal Hijack
- ASI02 Tool Misuse and Exploitation
- ASI06 Memory and Context Poisoning
- LLM01 Prompt Injection
- LLM02 Sensitive Information Disclosure
- AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
- SC-24 Fail in Known State
- SI-10 Information Input Validation
- MAP 5.1 Estimate impacts from past uses and public incident reports
- Goal 3 Reducing entire classes of vulnerability
- CWE-1427 Improper Neutralization of Input Used for LLM Prompting
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