arXiv AI

Scalable Weak-to-Strong Verifier Hardening for Agent Environments

arXiv AI
Sep 28

AgentXploit: Autonomous Repository-to-Runtime Red-Teaming for AI Agents

AgentXploit is a two‑role auditing system that separates repository‑level attack‑path discovery from runtime exploitation for AI agents. The Analyzer Agent traces attacker‑controlled inputs to sensitive operations and records candidate attack paths, while the Exploiter Agent turns these paths into concrete attacks and refines them using runtime feedback. The system is evaluated on AgentXploit‑Bench, a benchmark of 72 reproducible vulnerabilities across 12 open‑source AI‑agent systems, achieving 59.3% end‑to‑end success compared to 38.4% for Codex, and 79.2% attack success on AgentDojo versus 52.7% for AgentVigil.

By Weida Liang, Shi Qiu, Zhun Wang, Simon Sure, Xiaoyuan Liu, Tianneng Shi, Zhaorun Chen, Wenbo Guo, Dawn Song
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...

By Jiahao Shi, Edward Tsien, Yifeng Di, Hongjiao Zhang, Yuan Tang, Ronit Dey, Ilona Shishov, Gal Netanel, Zvi Grinberg, Vladimir Belousov, Bat-Zion Rotman, Ilan Pinto, Tianyi Zhang
arXiv AI
Oct 21

AutoRedClaw: Automated Red-Teaming for Claw-Style Agents

AutoRedClaw is an automated red‑teaming framework designed for claw‑style agents such as OpenClaw, which maintain persistent configuration, memory, and reusable skills. It generates end‑to‑end attacks and the necessary environments, using a strict quality‑checking protocol and execution‑based validation to ensure realistic, effective samples. The framework produces a 330‑case benchmark, RedClaw‑Bench, achieving over 30% effective attack rate at less than $0.10 per successful sample and demonstrating higher attack success rates than existing benchmarks across multiple agent systems.

By Hao Li, Tongyan Hu, Weidi Luo, Shanghao Shi, Xiaogeng Liu, Aiden Suh, Yulong Cao, Ning Zhang, William Yeoh, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Chaowei Xiao
arXiv AI
Jun 12

The Containment Gap: How Deployed Agentic AI Frameworks Fail Public-Facing Safety Requirements

arXiv:2606. 12797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic large language model systems that autonomously invoke tools, maintain persistent memory, and execute multi-step plans are increasingly deployed in public-facing domains, including government services, healthcare triage, and financial advising.

By Md Jafrin Hossain, Mohammad Arif Hossain, Weiqi Liu, Nirwan Ansari
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 19

HardEval: An Execution-Verified Benchmark for AI-Driven Security Hardening and Compliance Remediation

HardEval is an execution‑verified benchmark that tests language‑model‑assisted security hardening on a live Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 system. It uses STIG controls that fail on an unhardened baseline, and models generate Bash scripts that are run on a virtual machine and graded by OpenSCAP/OVAL compliance checks. The benchmark reveals significant differences in model performance across security domains and highlights failures where code appears plausible but does not meet the exact compliance condition.

By Manohar Vellala, Soumya Banerjee, Sandip Roy, Ross Gore, Sachin Shetty