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  1. Correct Verdicts, Flawed Reasoning: Structured Auditing of LLM-based Vulnerability Reasoning

    Oct 5, 2026Boyue Caroline Hu, Kaivalya Ahir, Ronghao Ni +1LLM AuditingSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsilvanya, USA

  2. VulValidate: Auditing Function-Level Vulnerability Labels with Executable Evidence

    Oct 4, 2026Leizhen Zhang, Sheng ChenSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

  3. Retrieve, Reproduce, Reveal: Dissecting Retrieval-Augmented Software Vulnerability Detection

    Sep 29, 2026Sabrina Kaniewski, Tim Krämer, Julius Bächle +3Software Vulnerability DetectionSoftware Engineering Benchmarks

    Institute for Secure Networked Systems, Esslingen University, Germany · Esslingen University, Germany · Institute for Intelligent Systems, Esslingen University, Germany +1

  4. JevVibe: Efficient Classification-Guided Secure Code Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Arshak Rezvani, Sasha Behrouzi, Ahmad-Reza SadeghiAutomated Program RepairSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

  5. Cheap to Hypothesize, Costly to Verify: The Defense Surface of Agentic Vulnerability Discovery

    Sep 28, 2026Kaikai Zhang, Zihan Zhang, Yuchong Xie +4Software Vulnerability DetectionCybersecurity

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  6. SecProbe: Adaptive Evaluation of Coding Agents on Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

    Sep 27, 2026Xiaonan Luo, Yue Huang, Kehan Guo +9Software Vulnerability DetectionAI Agent Evaluation

    University of Notre Dame · Bake AI · Vanderbilt University +5

  7. TraceVIC: Causal Reasoning over Code Evolution for Identifying Vulnerability-Inducing Commits

    Sep 22, 2026Fnu Tanish, Samiha Shimmi, Samikshya Chapagain +3Software Vulnerability DetectionRoot Cause Analysis

    Northern Illinois University · MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  8. MobileCybench: Evaluating Agent Vulnerability Discovery via Executable Probes

    Sep 21, 2026Andy K. Zhang, Ava Huang, Joey Ji +21Software Vulnerability DetectionAI Agent Security Benchmarks

    Stanford University · UC Berkeley

  9. SyzHarness: Patch-Based Kernel Bug Reproduction with LLM-Synthesized Fuzzing Harnesses

    Sep 20, 2026Xingyu Li, Juefei Pu, Haonan Li +4Software Vulnerability DetectionLLM-Based Program Synthesis

    University of California, Riverside

  10. Vulnerability Localization Benchmark: Measuring Agentic Security Analysis at Repository Scale

    Sep 14, 2026Aman Priyanshu, Supriti Vijay, Kimia Majd +8Software Vulnerability DetectionAI Agent Security

    1Foundation AI–Cisco Systems Inc. · 3Carnegie Mellon University · †Work done while at Foundation AI +1

  11. Beyond Static Guarantees: Measuring the Static-Pass Dynamic-Fail Gap in Security-Sensitive and LLM-Generated Python Code

    Sep 12, 2026Jessica Pourleyli, Maitreyee Das Urmi, Glaucia MeloSoftware Vulnerability DetectionSoftware Security

    Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto, Canada

  12. No-Box Vulnerability Analysis: Description-only Detection of Indirect Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in MCP Servers

    Sep 9, 2026Zehua Zhang, Jie Hu, Pratham Hegde +13MCP SecuritySoftware Vulnerability Detection

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University

  13. Automated Vulnerability Injection in Smart Contracts Using Large Language Models

    Sep 2, 2026Luca Migliaccio, Roberto Natella, Naghmeh Ivaki +2Software SecuritySoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Universit`a degli Studi di Napoli Federico II · Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) · University of Coimbra, CISUC/LASI, DEI +1

  14. LLM-Assisted Dynamic Threat Analysis for Attacker-Reachable Software Weaknesses in Autonomous Vehicles

    Aug 13, 2026Md Wasiul Haque, Sagar Dasgupta, Mizanur Rahman +1Automated Software TestingSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama 2009 Smart Communities and Innovation Building (SCIB), 28 Kirkbride Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0288 · Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama 3017 Cyber Hall, 248 Kirkbride Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0288

  15. VICBench: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Code Vulnerability Detection

    Aug 12, 2026Jin Lu, Xuening Han, Yang Zhong +4Software Vulnerability DetectionSoftware Engineering Benchmarks

    Amazon Web Services · University of Pittsburgh · Purdue University

  16. Cross-Corpus Evaluation of Generalizable Vulnerability Detection in IoT Firmware

    Aug 11, 2026Sadib Hassan Rumman, Md. Shariful Islam, Md. Rayhanur RahmanSoftware Vulnerability DetectionCurriculum Learning

    Institute of Information Technology University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh · Department of Computer Science The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

  17. Activation Probes Surface Code-Security Signals that the Model's Output Misses

    Aug 10, 2026Ivan WiryadiLLM AuditingSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Independent.

  18. CyberForge: Verified Vulnerability Injection at Repository Level for Cybersecurity Agent Training

    Aug 6, 2026Amine Lbath, Manan Suri, Aurelien Delaitre +4Automated Program RepairSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    National Institute of Standards and Technology · Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS · University of Maryland, College Park

  19. Antares: Foundation Models for Agentic Vulnerability Localization

    Aug 3, 2026Supriti Vijay, Aman Priyanshu, Didier Chapoteau +8Software Vulnerability DetectionSmall Language Models

    1Foundation AI–Cisco Systems Inc. · 2Yale University

  20. EntailLLM: Verifying LLM-Generated Vulnerability Discovery Paths with Domain Knowledge via Logic Programming

    Aug 3, 2026Kaustuv Mukherji, Jaikrishna Manojkumar Patil, Colton Payne +4Logic ProgrammingSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Syracuse University · HRL Laboratories

  21. Vulnerabilities, Secrets and Misconfiguration in the Highest-Exposure Docker Hub Images

    Aug 2, 2026Cristhian Kapelinski, Beatriz Machado, Diego KreutzSoftware Vulnerability DetectionCybersecurity

    *AI Horizon Labs, Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Alegrete, Brazil

  22. Exposed by Design: A Dynamic Security Assessment of Internet-Facing MCP Servers at Scale

    Jul 31, 2026Nicolás PadillaMCP SecuritySoftware Vulnerability Detection

    CobaltoSec

  23. HoF-Bench: Rediscovering Real AI-Discovered CVEs Without Frontier Models

    Jul 29, 2026Petr Simecek, Elnaz Babayeva, Jiri Balhar +23Software Vulnerability DetectionLLMs for Cybersecurity

    AISLE, San Francisco, CA, USA and Prague, Czech Republic · Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  24. Graph Is the Verifier: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Interprocedural Vulnerability Detection

    Jul 29, 2026Yikun Li, Ting Zhang, Jiakun Liu +9Agentic RLSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    1Singapore Management University, Singapore · 2Harbin Institute of Technology, China · 3GovTech, Singapore

  25. From Evaluation to Optimisation: Hierarchy-Aware Training Signals for CWE Prediction in Python

    Jul 23, 2026Muntasir Adnan, Manile Srun, Carlos C. N. KuhnSoftware Vulnerability DetectionLLMs for Cybersecurity

    Open Source Institute, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.

  26. Routing Ceilings Are Domain-Independent: Structural Prior Injection in Code Security Vulnerability Detection

    Jul 16, 2026Manuel Israel CázaresLLM EvaluationSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Bytepro AI Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico

  27. Qubes OS Security in the Public Record

    Jul 16, 2026Alfonso De GregorioSoftware Vulnerability DetectionCybersecurity

    Pwnshow

  28. Bulkhead: Automated Semantic Detection and Remediation of Container Escape Vulnerabilities

    Jul 14, 2026Qiyuan Fan, Zhi Li, Junjie Li +3Automated Program RepairSoftware Vulnerability Detection

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  29. AutoTrace: From Patches to Triggers via Agentic Interprocedural Exploration

    Jul 13, 2026Arastoo Zibaeirad, Marco Vieira, Thomas ZimmermannSoftware Vulnerability DetectionStatic Code Analysis

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte · Charlotte, NC, USA · University of California, Irvine +1

  30. Mitigating The Effect of Class Imbalance in Data with Hierarchical and Dependable Structure

    Jul 13, 2026Bipin Chhetri, Deepika Giri, Avishek Kadel +2Class-Imbalanced LearningHierarchical Classification

    Department of Computer Science1, Texas Tech University1 · Cumberland University2 · Yeshiva University3 +1