o3 profile
o3 — security & risk dashboard
Known weaknesses, safety and security advisories, and documented real-world incidents for o3 — collected automatically and re-checked every few hours, so teams building on it can see what to design around.
Last checked 15 Oct 2026
Known flaws
4
Security risks
4
Real-world incidents
0
Advisories logged
0
Security, safety & abuse risks
- Confident factual errors can mislead users in consequential decisions without independent validation.
- Untrusted documents and tool results can introduce prompt-injection risks in connected applications.
- Advanced coding and scientific capabilities create dual-use risks despite safety training and safeguards.
- Connecting sensitive data or privileged tools can increase the consequences of incorrect or manipulated actions.
Known flaws & limitations
- Can produce confident factual errors; OpenAI reported higher hallucination rates than o1 on some factuality evaluations.
- Extended reasoning can increase response latency and consume substantial output tokens.
- Its documented knowledge cutoff is June 2024, so newer facts require external information.
- Supports text and image inputs, but not native audio or video inputs.
Security advisories & risk updates
No risk advisories logged since this profile started being tracked. New ones appear here automatically.
What this means if you are building on it
- High-stakes factual decisions without expert review or source verification.
- Strictly latency-sensitive tasks that do not require extended reasoning.
- Native real-time audio or video processing.
- Unsupervised actions involving sensitive data, payments, or privileged systems.
Everything here comes from published documentation, advisories and reporting, with links to the original sources. It is not a complete vulnerability database — always check the provider's own security notices before shipping.