arXiv AI

Automated Vulnerability Injection in Smart Contracts Using Large Language Models

The paper presents a method that employs Large Language Models to automatically inject known vulnerabilities into Solidity smart contracts. Using a multi-step validation pipeline, the authors generate nearly 1,000 candidate contracts from real-world sources, ultimately confirming 32 vulnerable variants across 25 vulnerability types. These validated contracts are then used to evaluate the coverage of three static analysis tools, highlighting both complementary strengths and gaps in current detection approaches.

arXiv AI
Jul 2

Knowdit: Agentic Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with Auditing Knowledge Summarization

arXiv:2603. 26270v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Smart contracts govern billions of dollars in decentralized finance (DeFi), yet automated vulnerability detection remains challenging because many vulnerabilities are tightly coupled with project-specific business logic.

By Ziqiao Kong, Wanxu Xia, Chong Wang, Yue Xue, Yi Lu, Pan Li, Shaohua Li, Zong Cao, Yang Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Detecting Data Poisoning in Code Generation LLMs via Black-Box, Vulnerability-Oriented Scanning

The paper introduces CodeScan, a black-box, vulnerability-oriented scanning framework designed to detect data poisoning and backdoor attacks in code generation large language models (LLMs). CodeScan operates by analyzing structural similarities across multiple code generations, normalizing them with abstract syntax tree (AST) techniques, and then applying LLM-based vulnerability analysis to identify recurring insecure patterns. Evaluations on 117 models across three architectures and multiple sizes show over 97% detection accuracy with fewer false positives compared to prior methods.

By Shenao Yan, Shan Jin, Shimaa Ahmed, Sunpreet Singh Arora, Yiwei Cai, Yizhen Wang, Yuan Hong
arXiv AI
Aug 25

On Predicting Vulnerability Severity Using In-Context Learning: An Industrial Case Study

arXiv:2608.22089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern software systems require earlier and more scalable vulnerability severity assessment to reduce exposure to high-impact security flaws. Securit...

By Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas, David Nader Palacio, Anna Schmedding, Yiyang Lu, Aadil Mallick, Bill Hudson, Chris Gourley, Michael Roytman, Chris Shenefiel, Evgenia Smirni, Denys Poshyvanyk
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

OpenAnt: LLM-Powered Vulnerability Discovery Through Code Decomposition, Adversarial Verification, and Dynamic Testing

arXiv:2606. 19149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated vulnerability discovery in large codebases remains challenging: traditional static analysis produces high false-positive rates, while dynamic approaches such as fuzzing require substantial infrastructure and often target narrow classes of bugs.

By Nahum Korda, Gadi Evron
arXiv AI
Jun 17

ARVO: Atlas of Reproducible Vulnerabilities for Open-Source Software

arXiv:2606. 17283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving reproducibility, quantity, and diversity in vulnerability datasets has long been viewed as an inherent three-way trade-off, where improving one dimension often comes at the cost of the others.

By Xiang Mei, Jordi Del Castillo, Pulkit Singh Singaria, Haoran Xi, Abdelouahab Benchikh, Tiffany Bao, Ruoyu Wang, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doup\'e, Hammond Pearce, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt