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OSS-CRS: Liberating AIxCC Cyber Reasoning Systems for Real-World Open-Source Security

Cryptography and Security 2026-03-26 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) showed that cyber reasoning systems (CRSs) can go beyond vulnerability discovery to autonomously confirm and patch bugs: seven teams built such systems and open-sourced them after the competition. Yet all seven open-sourced CRSs remain largely unusable outside their original teams, each bound to the competition cloud infrastructure that no longer exists. We present OSS-CRS, an open, locally deployable framework for running and combining CRS techniques against real-world open-source projects, with budget-aware resource management. We ported the first-place system (Atlantis) and discovered 10 previously unknown bugs (three of high severity) across 8 OSS-Fuzz projects. OSS-CRS is publicly available.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.08566,
  title  = {OSS-CRS: Liberating AIxCC Cyber Reasoning Systems for Real-World Open-Source Security},
  author = {Andrew Chin and Dongkwan Kim and Yu-Fu Fu and Fabian Fleischer and Youngjoon Kim and HyungSeok Han and Cen Zhang and Brian Junekyu Lee and Hanqing Zhao and Taesoo Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08566},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Version 1.1 (March 2026), OSS-CRS: an open-source framework for porting, deploying, and composing AIxCC cyber reasoning systems. Project page: https://github.com/ossf/oss-crs

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:10:37.066Z