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.
Cheap to Hypothesize, Costly to Verify: The Defense Surface of Agentic Vulnerability Discovery
The paper introduces RedHerring, a defense mechanism that inserts safe decoy vulnerabilities into code repositories to divert autonomous LLM agents’ verification efforts away from real security flaws. By embedding CVE-derived vulnerability chains with false bridges and providing a private certificate for quick verification, RedHerring forces agents to spend a significant portion of their limited resources on decoys. Experiments on 33 OSS‑Fuzz projects show a 38.7‑60.4% reduction in discovered real vulnerabilities, even when agents are aware of decoys.
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arXiv AI
Sep 12
Beyond Static Guarantees: Measuring the Static-Pass Dynamic-Fail Gap in Security-Sensitive and LLM-Generated Python Code
The paper introduces the Static‑Pass Dynamic‑Fail (SPDF) phenomenon, showing that static analysis can miss vulnerabilities that are exploitable at runtime. Using a three‑stage pipeline—static scanning, LLM‑driven CWE reasoning, and autonomous exploit verification—it evaluated 1,355 Python samples and found that 14.53% of samples that passed static checks were actually exploitable. The study highlights that static‑analysis success and runtime security are distinct assurance layers, especially for AI‑generated and security‑sensitive code.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10
VEX-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Assessing Exploitability of Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
arXiv:2609.08040v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The software supply chain has become an increasingly exposed attack surface because of its reliance on intricate yet fragile dependencies. Existing d...
arXiv AI
Jul 14
Agent Hacks Agent: Autoresearch for Production-Agent Red-Teaming
arXiv:2607. 11698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production LLM agents such as Claude Code and Codex operate over untrusted content, files, commands, and workspace state, making safety failures directly actionable.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 13
Agent Hacks Agent: Autoresearch for Production-Agent Red-Teaming
Production LLM agents such as Claude Code and Codex operate over untrusted content, files, commands, and workspace state, making safety failures directly actionable. Red-teaming must therefore keep pace with evolving models and tools.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
CyberForge: Verified Vulnerability Injection at Repository Level for Cybersecurity Agent Training
arXiv:2608. 06471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite recent advances, frontier large language model (LLM) agents remain limited in discovering and patching complex vulnerabilities in real-world software.
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17
Agentic Vulnerability Reasoning on COTS Binaries
arXiv:2605. 05000v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM agents have been increasingly adopted for solving security tasks.
arXiv AI
Jul 31
SecRespond: Benchmarking AI Agents for Real-World Post-Compromise Incident Response
arXiv:2607. 26791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly adopted in real-world security operations with access to host artifacts and command-line interfaces (CLIs), making it critical to thoroughly assess their security capabilities.
arXiv AI
Jul 1
Understanding and Evaluating Claw-like Agent Security Through a Computer-Systems Lens
arXiv:2606. 30755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Claw-like AI agents (e.
arXiv AI
Jun 15
AgentCyberRange: Benchmarking Frontier AI Systems in Realistic Cyber Ranges
arXiv:2606. 14295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier AI systems are increasingly capable of cybersecurity tasks, including codebase inspection, vulnerability detection, and exploitation.
arXiv AI
Sep 17
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.