让后门在模型微调后仍能存活,攻击者可长期潜伏
Inject Once Survive Later: Backdooring Vision-Language-Action Models to Persist Through Downstream Fine-tuning
- 识别微调时不变的稳定模块,将后门注入其中
- 微调后仍保持91%攻击成功率,远超现有方法
- 适合研究模型安全或对抗性攻击的人员
视觉-语言-动作(VLA)模型已成为现代具身智能系统的核心。尽管其重要性突出,但安全问题仍被忽视,尤其是后门攻击在真实场景中的威胁。现有方法注入的后门常在用户侧微调时被清除,因干净数据会大幅改变模型参数。为此,我们提出INFUSE框架,首次实现即使经过任意微调仍有效的后门攻击。通过分析不同微调场景下的参数敏感性,识别出微调不敏感的模块,并将后门注入这些稳定模块,同时冻结其余部分,确保恶意行为持续存在。多组实验表明,经过用户微调后,INFUSE在仿真环境中的平均攻击成功率达91.0%,真实机器人任务中为79.8%,显著优于BadVLA的38.8%和36.6%;同时保持与标准模型相当的正常任务性能。该结果揭示了:预先植入的后门可穿越微调环节,在部署时依然有效。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become foundational to modern embodied AI systems. By integrating visual perception, language understanding, and action planning, they enable general-purpose task execution across diverse environments. Despite their importance, the security of VLA models remains underexplored -- particularly in the context of backdoor attacks, which pose realistic threats in physical-world deployments. While recent methods attempt to inject backdoors into VLA models, these backdoors are easily erased during downstream adaptation, as user-side fine-tuning with clean data significantly alters model parameters, rendering them impractical for real-world applications. To address these challenges, we propose INFUSE (INjection into Fine-tUne-inSensitive modulEs), the first backdoor attack framework for VLA base models that remains effective even with arbitrary user fine-tuning. INFUSE begins by analyzing parameter sensitivity across diverse fine-tuning scenarios to identify modules that remain largely unchanged -- the fine-tune-insensitive modules. It then injects backdoors into these stable modules while freezing the rest, ensuring malicious behavior persists after extensive user fine-tuning. Comprehensive experiments across multiple VLA architectures demonstrate INFUSE's effectiveness. After user-side fine-tuning, INFUSE maintains mean attack success rates of 91.0% on simulation environments and 79.8% on real-world robot tasks, substantially surpassing BadVLA (38.8% and 36.6%, respectively), while preserving clean-task performance comparable to standard models. These results uncover a critical threat: backdoors implanted before distribution can persist through fine-tuning and remain effective at deployment.
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