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As large language models (LLMs) increasingly integrate native code interpreters, they enable powerful real-time execution capabilities, substantially expanding their utility. However, such integrations introduce potential system-level…

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LLM-based programming assistants offer the promise of programming faster but with the risk of introducing more security vulnerabilities. Prior work has studied how LLMs could be maliciously fine-tuned to suggest vulnerabilities more often.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 John Heibel , Daniel Lowd

Recent advancements in automatic code generation using large language models (LLMs) have brought us closer to fully automated secure software development. However, existing approaches often rely on a single agent for code generation, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ana Nunez , Nafis Tanveer Islam , Sumit Kumar Jha , Peyman Najafirad

Testing plays a pivotal role in ensuring software quality, yet conventional Search Based Software Testing (SBST) methods often struggle with complex software units, achieving suboptimal test coverage. Recent works using large language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Gabriel Ryan , Siddhartha Jain , Mingyue Shang , Shiqi Wang , Xiaofei Ma , Murali Krishna Ramanathan , Baishakhi Ray

Recent advancements have led to the widespread adoption of code-oriented large language models (Code LLMs) for programming tasks. Despite their success in deployment, their security research is left far behind. This paper introduces a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yuchen Yang , Yiming Li , Hongwei Yao , Bingrun Yang , Yiling He , Tianwei Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Zhan Qin

We argue that when it comes to producing secure code with AI, the prevailing "fighting fire with fire" approach -- using probabilistic AI-based checkers or attackers to secure probabilistically generated code -- fails to address the long…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Benjamin Livshits

Security teams face a challenge: the volume of newly disclosed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) far exceeds the capacity to manually develop detection mechanisms. In 2025, the National Vulnerability Database published over 48,000…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ayush Garg , Sophia Hager , Jacob Montiel , Aditya Tiwari , Michael Gentile , Zach Reavis , David Magnotti , Wayne Fullen

LLM-based assistants, such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, have the potential to generate code that fulfills a programming task described in a natural language description, referred to as a prompt. The widespread accessibility of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sylvain Kouemo Ngassom , Arghavan Moradi Dakhel , Florian Tambon , Foutse Khomh

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for program code generation has gained substantial attention, but their biases and limitations with non-English prompts challenge global inclusivity. This paper investigates the complexities of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingda Li , Abhijit Mishra , Utkarsh Mujumdar

Passwords still remain a dominant authentication method, yet their security is routinely subverted by predictable user choices and large-scale credential leaks. Automated password guessing is a key tool for stress-testing password policies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Vladimir A. Mazin , Mikhail A. Zorin , Dmitrii S. Korzh , Elvir Z. Karimov , Dmitrii A. Bolokhov , Oleg Y. Rogov

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software development, yet their tendency to generate insecure code remains a major barrier to real-world deployment. Existing secure code alignment methods often suffer from a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyi Wu , Mingzhe Du , Yue Liu , Chengran Yang , Terry Yue Zhuo , Jiaheng Zhang , See-Kiong Ng

Test cases are essential for validating the reliability and quality of software applications. Recent studies have demonstrated the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate useful test cases for given source code. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shuzheng Gao , Chaozheng Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Xiaoqian Jiao , Chun Yong Chong , Shan Gao , Michael Lyu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to optimize code efficiency. Evaluating their effectiveness and further suggesting optimization opportunities often rely on high-quality tests to demonstrate the performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jun Yang , Cheng-Chi Wang , Bogdan Alexandru Stoica , Kexin Pei

With the recent unprecedented advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing, progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) is accelerating rapidly, presenting challenges in establishing clear guidelines, particularly in the field of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Nafis Tanveer Islam , Joseph Khoury , Andrew Seong , Elias Bou-Harb , Peyman Najafirad

Large Language Models (LLMs) are nowadays extensively used for various types of software engineering tasks, primarily code generation. Previous research has shown how suitable prompt engineering could help developers in improving their code…

As the role of Large Language Models (LLM)-based coding assistants in software development becomes more critical, so does the role of the bugs they generate in the overall cybersecurity landscape. While a number of LLM code security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Cyril Vallez , Alexander Sternfeld , Andrei Kucharavy , Ljiljana Dolamic

Large Language Models have become critical to modern software development, but their reliance on uncurated web-scale datasets for training introduces a significant security risk: the absorption and reproduction of malicious content. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhiyang Chen , Tara Saba , Xun Deng , Xujie Si , Fan Long

Autonomous code agents built on large language models are reshaping software and AI development through tool use, long-horizon reasoning, and self-directed interaction. However, this autonomy introduces a previously unrecognized security…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiang Zheng , Yutao Wu , Hanxun Huang , Yige Li , Xingjun Ma , Bo Li , Yu-Gang Jiang , Cong Wang

Large Language Model (LLM) applications are vulnerable to prompt injection and context manipulation attacks that traditional security models cannot prevent. We introduce two novel primitives--authenticated prompts and authenticated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohan Rajagopalan , Vinay Rao

With the growing popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineers' daily practices, it is important to ensure that the code generated by these tools is not only functionally correct but also free of vulnerabilities. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Mohammed Latif Siddiq , Joanna C. S. Santos , Sajith Devareddy , Anna Muller