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New benchmark reveals user prompts shape coding agent vulnerability to repo poisoning

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A new paper introduces CIPR, a benchmark designed to evaluate the vulnerability of coding agents to repository poisoning. The research highlights that user choices, termed Prompt-Level Configurations (PLCs), significantly influence an agent's susceptibility to attacks. The study found that the type of task delegated and the way prompts are expressed can drastically alter the attack success rate, with certain configurations creating silent attack surfaces. AI

IMPACT Highlights how user interaction design can mitigate or exacerbate security risks in AI-powered development tools.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new benchmark and findings on coding agent security.

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New benchmark reveals user prompts shape coding agent vulnerability to repo poisoning

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Fukang Zhu, Binbin Zhao, Ruixiao Lin, Ping He, Tianyu Du, Shouling Ji ·

    Beyond the Payload: How User Invocation Shapes Coding Agent Vulnerability to Repository Poisoning

    arXiv:2608.30686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents are increasingly used for software engineering tasks, including bootstrapping projects from third-party repositories whose integrity cannot be assumed. Prior work on repository poisoning largely focuses on attacker-c…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Beyond the Payload: How User Invocation Shapes Coding Agent Vulnerability to Repository Poisoning

    Coding agents are increasingly used for software engineering tasks, including bootstrapping projects from third-party repositories whose integrity cannot be assumed. Prior work on repository poisoning largely focuses on attacker-controlled injection and disguise, but developers a…

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