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From automated intrusion testing to discovery of zero-day attacks before software launch, agentic AI calls for great promises in security engineering. This strong capability is bound with a similar threat: the security and research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Brian Challita , Pierre Parrend

Agentic language-model systems increasingly rely on mutable execution contexts, including files, memory, tools, skills, and auxiliary artifacts, creating security risks beyond explicit user prompts. This paper presents DeepTrap, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hongwei Yao , Yiming Liu , Yiling He , Bingrun Yang

Modern software ecosystems face a rapidly growing number of disclosed vulnerabilities, increasing the need for automated repair techniques that can operate reliably at repository scale. Although Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Simiao Liu , Li Zhang , Fang Liu , Xiaoli Lian , Yang Liu , Yinghao Zhu

Smart contracts are decentralized applications built atop blockchains like Ethereum. Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) have potential in auditing smart contracts, but the state-of-the-art indicates that even GPT-4…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wei Ma , Daoyuan Wu , Yuqiang Sun , Tianwen Wang , Shangqing Liu , Jian Zhang , Yue Xue , Yang Liu

Researchers have made significant progress in automating the software development process in the past decades. Recent progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly impacted the development process, where developers can use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yuntong Zhang , Haifeng Ruan , Zhiyu Fan , Abhik Roychoudhury

Tool-using LLM agents must act on untrusted webpages, emails, files, and API outputs while issuing privileged tool calls. Existing defenses often mediate trust at the granularity of an entire tool invocation, forcing a brittle choice in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Linfeng Fan , Ziwei Li , Yuan Tian , Yichen Wang , Rongsheng Li , Xiong Wang

LLM-based coding agents are rapidly being deployed in software development, yet their safety implications remain poorly understood. These agents, while capable of accelerating software development, may exhibit unsafe behaviors during normal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Matous Kozak , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam , Siva Sivaraman

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong performance on self-contained programming tasks. However, they still struggle with repository-level software engineering (SWE), which demands (1) deep codebase navigation with effective context…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kang He , Kaushik Roy

Web-augmented large language models (LLMs) offer promising capabilities for automatic code generation. However, integrating live web search exposes models to unreliable or malicious content, leading to Search-Induced Issues (SII), a novel…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Guoqing Wang , Zeyu Sun , Xiaofei Xie , Yizhou Chen , Yanchao Tan , Yifan Zhao , Dan Hao

OpenID Connect has revolutionized online authentication based on single sign-on (SSO) by providing a secure and convenient method for accessing multiple services with a single set of credentials. Despite its widespread adoption, critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Tamjid Al Rahat , Yanju Chen , Yu Feng , Yuan Tian

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for automated vulnerability repair (AVR), but they still face several limitations, including the lack of intra-vulnerability experience accumulation and the lack of cross-vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haichuan Hu , Guoqing Xie , Quanjun Zhang , Jiawei Liu , Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen , Liang Xiao

Bug reports often lack sufficient detail for developers to reproduce and fix the underlying defects. Bug Reproduction Tests (BRTs), tests that fail when the bug is present and pass when it has been resolved, are crucial for debugging, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Runxiang Cheng , Michele Tufano , Jürgen Cito , José Cambronero , Pat Rondon , Renyao Wei , Aaron Sun , Satish Chandra

Red teaming is critical for identifying vulnerabilities and building trust in current LLMs. However, current automated methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on brittle prompt templates or single-turn attacks, failing to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Roman Belaire , Arunesh Sinha , Pradeep Varakantham

The increasing prevalence of software bugs has made automated program repair (APR) a key research focus. Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for APR, but existing studies mostly rely on smaller, earlier-generation models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jiajun Sun , Fengjie Li , Xinzhu Qi , Hongyu Zhang , Jiajun Jiang

Recent advances in coding agents have shown remarkable progress in software issue resolution. In practice, real-world issues are typically bug fixes or feature requests in which human developers naturally incorporate refactoring as part of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhao Tian , Zifan Zhang , Tao Xiao , Dong Wang , Masanari Kondo , Junjie Chen , Yasutaka Kamei

The transition from neural machine translation to agentic workflows has revolutionized Automated Program Repair (APR). However, existing agents, despite their advanced reasoning capabilities, frequently suffer from the ``Intent Gap'' -- the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yongchao Wang , Zhiqiu Huang

Bug tracking systems play a crucial role in software maintenance, yet developers frequently struggle with low-quality user-submitted reports that omit essential details such as Steps to Reproduce (S2R), Observed Behavior (OB), and Expected…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Emre Furkan Akyol , Mehmet Dedeler , Eray Tüzün

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for cybersecurity threat analysis, but their deployment in security-sensitive environments raises trust and safety concerns. With over 21,000 vulnerabilities disclosed in 2025, manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Reza Fayyazi , Michael Zuzak , Shanchieh Jay Yang

Recommender systems (RS) are increasingly vulnerable to shilling attacks, where adversaries inject fake user profiles to manipulate system outputs. Traditional attack strategies often rely on simplistic heuristics, require access to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Shengkang Gu , Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Guangping Zhang , Mingzhe Han , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu , Li Shang , Tun Lu

Automatic program repair (APR) techniques have the potential to reduce manual efforts in uncovering and repairing program defects during the code review (CR) process. However, the limited accuracy and considerable time costs associated with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Zelin Zhao , Zhaogui Xu , Jialong Zhu , Peng Di , Yuan Yao , Xiaoxing Ma