Between Safe Boundaries: Exploiting Temporal Consistency for Jailbreaking Text-To-Video Generation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17279v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:52:31 GMT
• Title: Between Safe Boundaries: Exploiting Temporal Consistency for Jailbreaking Text-To-Video Generation Models
• Abstract summary: Existing jailbreak methods, mostly adapted from text-to-image attacks, suffer notable drawbacks when applied to T2V systems.<n>We propose BSB, a structured, query-efficient jailbreak framework for T2V models.<n>We conduct comprehensive experiments on mainstream commercial T2V models including Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Seedance and Kling v1.
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• Abstract: Recently, text-to-video (T2V) models have been widely deployed, sparking growing concerns over their robustness against jailbreak attacks. Existing jailbreak methods, mostly adapted from text-to-image attacks, suffer notable drawbacks when applied to T2V systems. They fail to fully leverage temporal consistency, an inherent characteristic of video generation. Besides, these methods demand heavy video query optimization, which is infeasible in practical black-box scenarios. Their adversarial prompt search is also driven by heuristic local signals, lacking principled structured exploration strategies. To tackle these limitations, we propose BSB, a structured, query-efficient jailbreak framework for T2V models. BSB harnesses temporal consistency by encoding harmful intent as the transition between two individually harmless boundary states. Under this paradigm, the attack targets boundary-state pairs whose interpolation tends to produce unsafe intermediate frames during video generation. Directly evaluating all candidate pairs within the video space incurs prohibitive computation cost. Instead, BSB conducts Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) in a cheaper textual proxy space and regularly calibrates search outcomes with sparse video-level evaluations. We conduct comprehensive experiments on mainstream commercial T2V models including Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Seedance and Kling v1. Results show BSB surpasses all existing jailbreak baselines, delivering an average 18.6% relative gain in attack success rate over the strongest competitor across evaluated models. Our findings identify temporal consistency as an understudied yet vital attack surface for T2V models and verify that structured search facilitates effective vulnerability discovery under constrained query budgets.

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