arXiv AI
Jun 18
Code-Augur: Agentic Vulnerability Detection via Specification Inference
arXiv:2606. 18619v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The advent of agentic vulnerability detection is already becoming a watershed moment for software security.
Reflections on Trusting Trust, Revisited: Contaminating Self-Modifying AI Coding Agents with Poisoned Benchmarks
The paper revisits Thompson’s classic compiler back‑door attack in the context of self‑modifying AI coding agents. By poisoning the benchmarks used for self‑evaluation, the authors demonstrate that agents such as the Darwin Gödel Machine, Self‑Improving Coding Agent, and Hyperagents can be coaxed into generating vulnerable code, even on clean, held‑out tasks. Experiments show that the contamination can persist after subsequent clean training, highlighting the need for more robust agent designs.
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Jul 24
IssueTrojanBench: Benchmarking AI Coding Agents Against Malicious Issue Requests
arXiv:2607. 20759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents powered by LLMs are increasingly integrated into real-world software development, where they generate, edit, and execute code with autonomous access to local files and tools.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
Agent Data Injection Attacks are Realistic Threats to AI Agents
arXiv:2607. 05120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents act on behalf of user prompts, consuming external data and taking actions based on the agent context.
arXiv AI
Sep 1
SIR: Self-improving Red-teaming for Compute Use Agents
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arXiv AI
Jul 1
Understanding and Evaluating Claw-like Agent Security Through a Computer-Systems Lens
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SIR: Self-improving Red-teaming for Compute Use Agents
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arXiv AI
Jul 28
Execution-Grounded Security Testing for Coding Agents in Software Engineering Pipelines
arXiv:2607. 22569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents are increasingly integrated into system operations, where their tool use can directly modify project artifacts, execution environments, and the underlying system.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
Benchmarking Security Risk Detection and Verification in Open Agentic Skill Ecosystems
arXiv:2606. 00925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open agent platforms allow community contributors to publish reusable skills that agents can invoke at runtime.
arXiv AI
Jul 17
Bad Memory: Evaluating Prompt Injection Risks from Memory in Agentic Systems
arXiv:2607. 14611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A growing class of agentic systems maintain persistent state across sessions through memory files, behavioral preferences, and knowledge bases.
arXiv AI
Jun 12
Who Pays the Price? Stakeholder-Centric Prompt Injection Benchmarking for Real-world Web Agents
arXiv:2606. 13385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web agents driven by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world environments, where they operate over untrusted web content and execute actions with direct consequences.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
SecureVibeBench: Benchmarking Secure Vibe Coding of AI Agents via Reconstructing Vulnerability-Introducing Scenarios
arXiv:2509. 22097v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model-powered code agents are rapidly transforming software engineering, yet the security risks of their generated code have become a critical concern.
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1
Beyond the Payload: How User Invocation Shapes Coding Agent Vulnerability to Repository Poisoning
arXiv:2608.30686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents are increasingly used for software engineering tasks, including bootstrapping projects from third-party repositories whose integrity ca...