o4 Mini profile
o4 Mini — security & risk dashboard
Known weaknesses, safety and security advisories, and documented real-world incidents for o4 Mini — collected automatically and re-checked every few hours, so teams building on it can see what to design around.
Last checked 25 Oct 2026
Known flaws
5
Security risks
4
Real-world incidents
0
Advisories logged
0
Security, safety & abuse risks
- Malicious instructions embedded in untrusted content can redirect tool-connected workflows.
- Residual jailbreak and harmful-assistance risks remain despite safety training.
- Confident factual errors can mislead users making consequential decisions.
- Tool access can turn mistaken reasoning into external actions unless permissions and approval gates constrain execution.
Known flaws & limitations
- Can produce confident factual errors; the system card reports higher hallucination rates than o3-mini on evaluated factuality tasks.
- Does not support native audio or video input.
- Produces text rather than native image or audio output.
- Reasoning tokens consume the output budget, incur output-token charges and can increase latency.
- Published benchmark results depend on reasoning effort, tool access and evaluation configuration.
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
- Unsupervised medical, legal or financial decisions requiring reliably accurate facts.
- Native audio, video or image-generation workloads.
- Strict low-latency workloads that cannot accommodate variable reasoning time.
- Autonomous workflows with unrestricted access to sensitive data or irreversible actions.
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.