Factuality guardrail missing on public surface
ID |
factuality-guardrail-missing-public-surface |
Severity |
low |
Remediation Complexity |
trivial |
Remediation Risk |
low |
Remediation Effort |
medium |
OWASP LLM |
LLM09:2025 — Misinformation |
OWASP ASI |
ASI09:2026 |
Family |
LLM09 — Misinformation |
Red-team vectors |
(none — LLM09 carries no red-team vector) |
Tags |
ai_security |
Description
A public / external-facing agent has no output guardrail carrying a factuality_check or citation_required capability. Nothing checks the factual grounding of what a public agent asserts to end users — the trust-exploitation surface OWASP calls ASI09.
Low severity: this is an absent-safeguard fact, not a content-quality judgement. Scoped to public / external surfaces — an internal / unknown surface, or an agent wired to a factuality or citation guardrail, produces no finding.