Last Secure Code Benchmark: Is the Code You Vibe Secure?

Tianyi Wu; Chao Ge; Peng Chen; Fengji Zhang; Yongxing Wu; Yuchong Xie; Jian Li; Chaoyuan Peng

cs.CROct 10, 2026

Last Secure Code Benchmark: Is the Code You Vibe Secure?

Authors: Tianyi Wu, Chao Ge, Peng Chen, Fengji Zhang, Yongxing Wu, Yuchong Xie, Jian Li, Chaoyuan Peng, +7 more

Organizations: National University of Singapore · Qwen Team, Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group · Cloud Safety and Security, Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group

Abstract

AI coding agents now write much of the code that ships, yet whether that code is secure remains unclear. We introduce the Last Secure Code Benchmark, a comprehensive evaluation of secure code generation by coding agents. Built from 150 real vulnerabilities, its 450 tasks span seven widely used languages (Java, C, C++, JavaScript, Python, PHP, and Go), 24 CWEs including 21 of the 2025 CWE Top 25 and 8 of the Top 10 KEV weaknesses, more than any benchmark we compare with, and three vibe-coding scenarios: filling in a function, writing a file, and building a repository's source tree from scratch. Every task asks only for functionality, through a specification that never mentions security, and hidden functional and security tests grade the result. Across six frontier agents, 73.6% to 91.3% of tasks pass functionally, yet even the strongest, Claude Fable 5, produces code that is both functional and secure for only 25.1% of tasks, and the others for 16.4% to 24.7%. The best model only passes 12% of the vulnerability scenarios across all vibe coding setting, posing strong concern on the security of the code written by vibe coding.

Figures & tables

Benchmark	Tasks	Task context	Multi-file	Avg. Gen. lines	Languages	Top 25 (2025)	KEV 10 (2025)
CWEval	119	File	$\times$	10.0	C/C++/Go/JS/Py	10/25	5/10
SALLM	100	File	$\times$	12.9	Py	11/25	6/10
SecCodePLT	1,345	Function	$\times$	8.1	Py	13/25	5/10
Asleep	71	File	$\times$	19.6	C/Py	13/25	7/10
BaxBench	392	None	$\checkmark$	—	Go/JS/PHP/Py/Ruby/Rust	9/25	4/10
A.S.E	120	Repo	$\checkmark$	35.8	PHP/Py/Go/JS/Java	4/25	3/10

Table 1: Comparison of secure code generation benchmarks. LSCBench’s 450 tasks are its 150 scenarios at three granularities, and its three generation-line averages correspond to Function/File/Repository tasks.

Figure 1: Construction pipeline of LSCBench. Scenarios come from CVE-Factory and expert-crafted cases; tests are written and both code states validated. Stage 1 builds Function, File, and Repo task environments from the vulnerable repository. Stage 2 drafts the specifications for the three granularities in one multi-turn session without the reference patch. Stage 3 has a fix-visible review agent and five security experts correct the drafted materials, gates every task with the reference and empty solutions, yielding 150 scenarios and 450 tasks.

Figure 2: Composition of the 150 scenarios. (a) Share of scenarios by CWE class: the ten most frequent classes are shown and the remaining 14 are grouped. (b) Share of scenarios by language, with C and C++ combined.

		Mean	Median	Max
Context	# Lines	650K	70K	37,060K
	# Files	3,812	507	81,768
Function tasks	# Lines	155	94	1,686
	# Files	1.8	1	10
	# Regions	2.8	2	18
File tasks	# Lines	1,782	480	46,423

Table 2: Task statistics over the 150 scenarios. Context covers the whole vulnerable repository; the task rows count the hand-written reference code that each granularity withholds, excluding build products that the retained build regenerates.

Figure 3: Agent-visible inputs, reconstruction scopes, and separate verification. Dashed outlines mark withheld code; each granularity is an independent task. Only editable-scope files enter the verifier, where hidden functional and security suites determine joint success.

Figure 4: Main results of six agentic LLMs on LSCBench. Left: share of the 450 tasks passed. Right: share of the 150 scenarios passed at all three granularities. Green is Func ${\wedge}$ Sec ; the gray part extends to FuncPass , so its visible share is functional but vulnerable; the light track to 100 is not functional. Bold marks the best Func ${\wedge}$ Sec per panel; SecPass and the conditional rates are in Table 10 (Appendix E ).

Figure 5: FuncPass , SecPass , and Func

{\wedge}

Sec by granularity. Each line follows one model over the same 150 scenarios; the logo marks the Repo value.

Figure 6: Average turns per task against Func ${\wedge}$ Sec over the 450 tasks. A turn is one step of the agent’s trajectory; GPT-5.6-Sol runs under Codex, which counts steps differently.

Figure 7: A functional but vulnerable attempt, end to end. Kimi-K3 rebuilds the removed ImportExportService.java (File granularity, CWE-502, expert-crafted Java scenario) from a specification that requires each archive entry to be “parsed as YAML into a mapping” and leaves the parsing helper to the implementer. It reads eleven context files, writes the 207-line class with new Yaml().load(text) , compiles the whole source tree offline, and writes its own smoke test against stubbed mappers, growing it from 27 to 33 checks after finding and fixing a corrupt-archive edge case. All 14 hidden functional tests pass; all four hidden security tests fail, because the default SnakeYAML constructor honors every !!class tag in the uploaded YAML. Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol parse the same entries with SafeConstructor and pass both suites. Quotes are verbatim; “…” marks elisions.

Appendix figures & tables18 assets

Supplementary material from the paper’s appendix.

Appendix

Language	Scenarios	Tasks
Java	35	105
PHP	22	66
Python	22	66
JavaScript	22	66
C	23	69
C++	6	18

Appendix

Table 4: Language distribution. Each scenario contributes three tasks.

CWE	Weakness	Java	C	C++	JavaScript	Python	PHP	Go	Total
119	Memory buffer bounds	–	1	1	–	–	–	–	2
125	Out-of-bounds read	–	4	1	–	–	–	1	6
190	Integer overflow	–	3	1	–	–	–	–	4
416	Use after free	–	3	–	–	–	–	–	3
476	Null pointer dereference	–	4	–	1	–	–	1	6
787	Out-of-bounds write	–	2	1	–	–	–	–	3

Appendix

Table 5: Number of scenarios per CWE and language. Each scenario contributes three tasks, one per granularity; a dash marks an empty cell.

Category	Short description	Scenarios
CWE-20	Input validation	15
CWE-22	Path traversal	18
CWE-77	Command injection	5
CWE-78	OS command injection	12
CWE-79	Cross-site scripting	6
CWE-89	SQL injection	8

Appendix

Table 6: CWE composition of the 150 scenarios. Short descriptions are used for readability.

Language	Weakness classes, most severe first
Java	CWE-89, CWE-22, CWE-79, CWE-918, CWE-400, CWE-502, CWE-917, CWE-94, CWE-78, CWE-1336, CWE-611, CWE-434, CWE-287, CWE-862, CWE-863, CWE-639
JavaScript	CWE-79, CWE-1321, CWE-400, CWE-22, CWE-918, CWE-89, CWE-94, CWE-78, CWE-1336, CWE-287, CWE-862, CWE-863, CWE-639
Python	CWE-22, CWE-78, CWE-89, CWE-918, CWE-79, CWE-400, CWE-502, CWE-94, CWE-1336, CWE-287, CWE-862, CWE-863, CWE-639
Go	CWE-22, CWE-918, CWE-89, CWE-362, CWE-400, CWE-79, CWE-78, CWE-287, CWE-862, CWE-863, CWE-639
PHP	CWE-89, CWE-79, CWE-22, CWE-434, CWE-352, CWE-918, CWE-502, CWE-94, CWE-78, CWE-1336, CWE-287, CWE-862, CWE-863, CWE-639
C and C++	CWE-119, CWE-787, CWE-125, CWE-416, CWE-190, CWE-476, CWE-362, CWE-400, CWE-22, CWE-78

Appendix

Table 7: Weakness classes prioritized within each language when the final 150 scenarios were selected, in priority order. C and C++ share one list.

Benchmark	Security evaluation and selected observations
Asleep	CodeQL analysis and manual inspection assess the security of generated software. This combines static analysis with human review.
SALLM	Unit tests and CodeQL analysis. An inspected file-deletion test checks an expected error message without asserting that the protected file remains present. Other sampled tests check response status or output uniqueness.
CWEval	Dynamic execution with separate functional and security inputs. A JavaScript path-traversal test creates real files, executes the generated program, and checks returned content; an unsafe implementation provides a negative control.
SecCodePLT	Dynamic tests and rule assessment. The inspected Python evaluator uses an LLM to assess rules for selected CWEs. The expanded SeCodePLT also includes proof-of-concept (PoC) tests for C/C++ and Java.
BaxBench	Attacks against generated HTTP services. The ZIP-conversion tests observe secret disclosure and changes to container files, including overwrite or deletion.
SUSVIBES	Security regression tests from vulnerability fixes. An inspected public Django example checks a defensive helper call. The paper also reports human review and test revision to reduce coupling to reference implementations (Appendix B.5).

Appendix

Table 8: Security evaluation in related benchmarks. Entries combine reported methods with selected observations from public scoring code. The examples describe particular tests and do not establish an overall ranking of benchmark quality.

Model	Framework	Reasoning effort
Claude Fable 5	Claude Code v2.1.143	max
GPT-5.6-Sol	Codex v0.154.0	max
GLM-5.3	Claude Code v2.1.143	max
Qwen3.8-Max	Claude Code v2.1.143	xhigh (its highest level)
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	Claude Code v2.1.143	max
Kimi-K3	Claude Code v2.1.143	max

Appendix

Table 9: Framework and reasoning effort per model. The effort is the highest level each model exposes.

	Task level (450 tasks)					Scenario level (150 scenarios)
Model	FuncPass	SecPass	Func ${\wedge}$ Sec	$S\mid F$	Common- $F$	FuncPass	SecPass	Func ${\wedge}$ Sec
Claude Fable 5	91.1	25.3	25.1	27.6	27.7	82.7	12.0	12.0
GPT-5.6-Sol	89.1	25.8	24.7	27.7	27.7	78.0	9.3	8.0
Qwen3.8-Max	89.3	24.0	22.0	24.6	24.7	76.0	9.3	8.0
GLM-5.3	87.1	23.8	21.3	24.5	25.1	72.0	8.7	7.3
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	73.6	19.3	18.0	24.5	24.7	50.0	6.7	6.7

Appendix

Table 10: Main results on the same 450 tasks per model, in percent.

S\mid F

is Func

{\wedge}

Sec among a model’s own functional successes; Common-

F

is Func

{\wedge}

Sec on the 271 tasks that all six models pass functionally. Bold marks the best value per column.

CWE	Weakness	Scenarios	FuncPass	Func ${\wedge}$ Sec	$S\mid F$
Memory safety		24	77.5	34.3	44.2
CWE-119	Memory buffer bounds	2	88.9	13.9	15.6
CWE-125	Out-of-bounds read	6	77.8	30.6	39.3
CWE-190	Integer overflow	4	68.1	25.0	36.7
CWE-416	Use after free	3	75.9	61.1	80.5
CWE-476	Null pointer dereference	6	76.9	32.4	42.2

Appendix

Table 11: Outcomes by CWE, grouped into the eight weakness families of Section 5.3 and pooled over the six models, in percent. Italic rows give the family totals.

	Function		File		Repo
Model	FuncPass	Func ${\wedge}$ Sec	FuncPass	Func ${\wedge}$ Sec	FuncPass	Func ${\wedge}$ Sec
Claude Fable 5	93.3	22.0	91.3	26.7	88.7	26.7
GPT-5.6-Sol	94.0	20.0	88.7	23.3	84.7	30.7
Qwen3.8-Max	96.7	22.7	90.7	22.0	80.7	21.3
GLM-5.3	94.7	24.7	88.7	17.3	78.0	22.0
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	84.0	22.7	75.3	15.3	61.3	16.0

Appendix

Table 12: FuncPass and Func

{\wedge}

Sec at each granularity, in percent. Every rate uses the 150 scenarios; these are the values behind Figure 5 .

Model	$\|C_{m}\|$	Function	File	Repo	Function (52)	File (52)	Repo (52)
Claude Fable 5	124	26.6	31.5	31.5	26.9	28.8	30.8
GPT-5.6-Sol	117	20.5	23.1	33.3	23.1	28.8	42.3
Qwen3.8-Max	114	25.4	24.6	26.3	26.9	21.2	28.8
GLM-5.3	108	26.9	23.1	25.9	28.8	23.1	21.2
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	75	24.0	21.3	26.7	26.9	19.2	25.0
Kimi-K3	120	15.8	11.7	20.8	19.2	11.5	26.9

Appendix

Table 13: Func

{\wedge}

Sec on fixed functional subsets, in percent. The first three rates use

C_{m}

, the scenarios the indicated model solves functionally at all three granularities. The last three use the 52 scenarios that all six models solve functionally at all three granularities.

Model	$(1,1)$	$(1,0)$	$(0,0)$	$(0,1)$	Missing
Claude Fable 5	113	297	39	1	0
GPT-5.6-Sol	111	290	44	5	0
Qwen3.8-Max	99	303	37	9	2
GLM-5.3	96	296	45	11	2
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	81	250	112	6	1
Kimi-K3	74	337	29	8	2

Appendix

Table 14: Counts of the five outcome categories. Each row sums to 450. Missing entries are not assigned to a measured quadrant.

Tasks	0	1	2	3	4	5	6
Function	88	20	6	6	13	9	8
File	85	21	14	6	15	6	3
Repo	79	21	15	10	10	7	8
All tasks	252	62	35	22	38	22	19

Appendix

Table 15: Overlap of the models’ secure solutions. Each cell counts the tasks that exactly that many of the six models solve securely, per granularity (150 tasks each) and over all 450 tasks.

Model	0 secure tiers	1 tier	2 tiers	All 3 tiers
Claude Fable 5	93	19	20	18
GPT-5.6-Sol	87	27	24	12
Qwen3.8-Max	94	25	19	12
GLM-5.3	98	19	22	11
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	103	23	14	10
Kimi-K3	103	23	21	3

Appendix

Table 16: Scenario-level coverage. Each row counts how many of the 150 scenarios a model secures at zero, one, two, or all three granularities.

Figure 9: A solved task, end to end. Claude Fable 5 rebuilds the removed MountService.java (File granularity, CWE-78, expert-crafted Java scenario) from a specification that never mentions injection. It reads the specification and eight context files, writes the 154-line class with the mount arguments passed to ProcessBuilder as a list, and compiles it offline against the image’s Maven cache before submitting. The hidden security tests store paths ending in ; echo and a marker, which no shell ever interprets: 12 of 12 functional and 3 of 3 security tests pass. Qwen3.8-Max and Kimi-K3 build the same command as a string for sh -c and pass the same functional suite with the injection open. Quotes are verbatim; “…” marks elisions.

Figure 10: A failed attempt on the same task as Figure 7 . DeepSeek-V4-Pro reads the specification and fourteen context files, writes the 184-line ImportExportService.java in one pass, and runs mvn compile , which fails because the sandbox has no network. It calls the failure “a network resolution issue, not a code problem”, re-reads its own file in place of a build, and submits it as “verified against all spec requirements”. The hidden verifier cannot compile the file: line 85 calls nextEntry() , a method ZipInputStream does not have, so no test runs and both suites score zero. On the identical image, Kimi-K3 (Figure 7 ) found the cached dependencies under the image’s Maven directory and compiled offline. Quotes are verbatim; “…” marks elisions.

Figure 11: A solved task in the weakness family agents secure most often. Qwen3.8-Max restores two masked regions of libheif (Function granularity, C++, CWE-125) from region contracts that describe how a derived image resolves to the item holding its codec configuration and state that the value for a derived image with no item references “is left open”. The loop it writes stops when the reference list is empty, so the nine hidden security tests, which feed grid, identity, and overlay images without references to the converter and to the two bit-depth entry points, pass along with the four functional tests. GPT-5.6-Sol wrote the same resolver without the check and was the only model killed by signal 11. Quotes are verbatim; “…” marks elisions.

Figure 12: A functional but vulnerable attempt in the family agents secure least often. GPT-5.6-Sol restores masked regions in seven files of LocalAI (Function granularity, Go, CWE-918), among them GetURI , which the contract describes as fetching the content a URL addresses, stripping a file:// prefix and resolving symbolic links, and reading the file “on the path where the read proceeds”. The agent reads any path on disk. All 12 functional tests pass; all 11 security tests fail, because file:///etc/passwd , /proc/self/environ , a symlink out of the models directory, and a gallery index outside it are read and returned. The reference fix confines the resolved path to the models directory; no model did. Quotes are verbatim; “…” marks elisions.

Figure 13: A functional but vulnerable attempt on an information-exposure task. GLM-5.3 restores the attestation section of syft’s configuration (Function granularity, Go, CWE-200): a struct with a key and a password field whose contract pins the mapstructure keys and says that the section appears in the YAML configuration dump and in the SBOM’s descriptor.configuration , and that “the yaml and json tag values are not pinned by any retained caller”. The agent copies the tag style of the sibling config types, so the password is rendered wherever the configuration is. All 11 functional tests pass; five of six security tests fail because the password appears in the verbose configuration dump and in both SBOM formats. The reference fix tags both fields yaml:"-" json:"-" ; all six models wrote the same tags as GLM-5.3. Quotes are verbatim; “…” marks elisions.

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