The paper "Beyond Reproducibility: Towards Security-Aware Evaluation of Research Artifacts" examines 1,388 research artifacts from top security conferences, uncovering 132,431 candidate security findings through static analysis. It introduces a taxonomy for context-aware security assessment and presents SAFE, an autonomous framework that accurately distinguishes security-relevant findings and classifies risk types. The study demonstrates that nearly 45% of findings are security-relevant, highlighting the need for security-aware evaluation alongside traditional reproducibility checks.
By Nanda Rani, Christian Rossow
The paper introduces AgentSecGraph, a static analysis framework that builds a Security-Aware Agent Dependency Graph (Security-ADG) for each security-sensitive operation in large language model (LLM) agents. It enriches operation identity with agent relevance, source and dependency evidence, trust-boundary context, guard evidence, and external-effect semantics. The authors also present AgentSecBench, a corpus of 67 real-world LLM-agent repositories, and demonstrate that their analyzer identifies thousands of operation candidates, recovers substantial dependency and guard evidence, and distinguishes guarded behaviors from vulnerabilities with high accuracy.
By Hang Cui
arXiv:2407.02395v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for program synthesis, yet they often generate code that is functionally plausible but ins...
By Jiexin Wang, Liuwen Cao, Xitong Luo, Yang Cao, Zhenghao Li, Yunyi Xiao, Mengchen Zhao, Adam Jatowt, Yi Cai
arXiv:2601. 19138v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Secure code review is critical during pre-integration, where Atlassian developers rely on lightweight analysis tools, while deep security assessment is deferred to later stages, delaying feedback and increasing remediation costs.
By Wachiraphan Charoenwet, Kla Tantithamthavorn, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Hong Yi Lin, Minwoo Jeong, Ming Wu
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
The paper introduces Porting Benchmark, a dataset of 1,234 security patch backporting cases covering cross-version, cross-branch, and cross-repository scenarios, along with a unified evaluation framework. Five tools—spanning program analysis, LLM prompting, and LLM agents—are evaluated under aligned settings, revealing that performance varies significantly across tools and patch complexity, with success rates dropping sharply for structurally complex patches. The study identifies four root-cause categories for failures and demonstrates that reference-based benchmark scores may not fully reflect real-world remediation, as executable validation uncovers additional integration issues.