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Vulnerability detection tools are widely adopted in software projects, yet they often overwhelm maintainers with false positives and non-actionable reports. Automated exploitation systems can help validate these reports; however, existing…

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Open-source libraries are widely used in modern software development, introducing significant security vulnerabilities. While static analysis tools can identify potential vulnerabilities at scale, they often generate overwhelming reports…

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The exploit or the Proof of Concept of the vulnerability plays an important role in developing superior vulnerability repair techniques, as it can be used as an oracle to verify the correctness of the patches generated by the tools.…

AI agents are rapidly gaining capabilities that could significantly reshape cybersecurity, making rigorous evaluation urgent. A critical capability is exploitation: turning a vulnerability, which is not yet an attack, into a concrete…

Creating attack paths for cyber defence exercises requires substantial expert effort. Existing automation requires vulnerability graphs or exploit sets curated in advance, limiting where it can be applied. We present AEGIS, a system that…

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Through international regulations (most prominently the latest UNECE regulation) and standards, the already widely perceived higher need for cybersecurity in automotive systems has been recognized and will mandate higher efforts for…

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The offensive security landscape is highly fragmented: enterprise platforms avoid memory-corruption vulnerabilities due to Denial of Service (DoS) risks, Automatic Exploit Generation (AEG) systems suffer from semantic blindness, and Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Biagio Andreucci , Arcangelo Castiglione

The existence of a security vulnerability in a system does not necessarily mean that it can be exploited. In this research, we introduce Autosploit -- an automated framework for evaluating the exploitability of vulnerabilities. Given a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Noam Moscovich , Ron Bitton , Yakov Mallah , Masaki Inokuchi , Tomohiko Yagyu , Meir Kalech , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

With the growing adoption of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, various attack methods have been proposed to degrade their performance. However, most existing approaches rely on unrealistic assumptions in which external attackers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chanwoo Choi , Jinsoo Kim , Sukmin Cho , Soyeong Jeong , Buru Chang

Security practitioners face growing challenges in exploit assessment, as public vulnerability repositories are increasingly populated with inconsistent and low-quality exploit artifacts. Existing scoring systems, such as CVSS and EPSS,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiangmin Shen , Wenyuan Cheng , Yan Chen , Zhenyuan Li , Yuqiao Gu , Lingzhi Wang , Wencheng Zhao , Dawei Sun , Jiashui Wang

Incident management is a key aspect of operating large-scale cloud services. To aid with faster and efficient resolution of incidents, engineering teams document frequent troubleshooting steps in the form of Troubleshooting Guides (TSGs),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Manish Shetty , Chetan Bansal , Sai Pramod Upadhyayula , Arjun Radhakrishna , Anurag Gupta

Due to the increasing sophistication of web attacks, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have to be tested and updated regularly to resist the relentless flow of web attacks. In practice, using a brute-force attack to discover vulnerabilities…

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Smart contracts are important for digital finance, yet they are hard to patch once deployed. Prior work has mainly explored LLMs for smart contract vulnerability detection, leaving end-to-end automated exploit generation (AEG) much less…

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Web applications are the target of many well known exploits and also a fertile ground for the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Yet, the success of an exploit depends both on the vulnerability in the application source code and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Stanislav Dashevskyi , Daniel Ricardo dos Santos , Fabio Massacci , Antonino Sabetta

Large language model based multi-agent systems (MAS) have unlocked significant advancements in tackling complex problems, but their increasing capability introduces a structural fragility that makes them difficult to debug. A key obstacle…

Web applications are prime targets for cyberattacks as gateways to critical services and sensitive data. Traditional penetration testing is costly and expertise-intensive, making it difficult to scale with the growing web ecosystem. While…

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The increasing complexity and scale of modern digital environments have exposed significant gaps in traditional cybersecurity penetration testing methods, which are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and unable to rapidly adapt to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Ibrahim Alshehri , Adnan Alshehri , Abdulrahman Almalki , Majed Bamardouf , Alaqsa Akbar

Software vulnerabilities remain a critical security challenge, providing entry points for attackers into enterprise networks. Despite advances in security practices, the lack of high-quality datasets capturing diverse exploit behavior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Alireza Lotfi , Charalampos Katsis , Elisa Bertino

Deep learning has made significant breakthroughs in many fields, including electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, in which deliberately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xue Jiang , Xiao Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Mass assignment is one of the most prominent vulnerabilities in RESTful APIs. This vulnerability originates from a misconfiguration in common web frameworks, such that naming convention and automatic binding can be exploited by an attacker…

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