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AI harness finds and patches security vulnerability in under 5 minutes

A security research harness successfully identified and patched a vulnerability, CVE-2026-94130, within the PWNT Toast development. The process, utilizing the qwen3-coder-ablite model, took approximately 407.9 seconds to generate a working exploit and patch. The team plans to further develop autonomous runs for automatic triage and patching in a closed network environment. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates AI's growing capability in automated security vulnerability detection and remediation, potentially accelerating software security lifecycles.

RANK_REASON The item describes a specific research finding and development in AI security, detailing a novel method for vulnerability detection and patching. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI harness finds and patches security vulnerability in under 5 minutes

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Some great news in PWNT Toast development. Today the harness took CVE-2026-94130 and produced a working Exploit and Patch in 407.9 seconds on qwen3-coder-ablite

    Some great news in PWNT Toast development. Today the harness took CVE-2026-94130 and produced a working Exploit and Patch in 407.9 seconds on qwen3-coder-abliterated:30b-a3b-instruct-q4_K_M and then orchestrated and built a test harness for both with the affected application and …