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LLMs show promise in repairing web application security flaws · 1 source tracked

Researchers have developed BAC-Bench, the first benchmark designed to evaluate how well Large Language Models (LLMs) can repair broken access control (BAC) vulnerabilities in web applications. This benchmark includes 46 real-world vulnerabilities from six web applications across four programming languages, each with a sandboxed environment and validation tools. Initial evaluations show that base LLMs can repair an average of 37.68% of these vulnerabilities, but with simple scaffolding techniques like Apply-Feedback and Navigate-and-Locate, this repair rate increases significantly, with the best LLM achieving 75.36% repair accuracy. AI

IMPACT Establishes a benchmark for LLM-based security vulnerability repair, potentially accelerating adoption in web application security.

RANK_REASON Academic paper introducing a new benchmark for LLM application in a specific security domain. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mingrui Liu, Liang He, Xinchu Wang, Yeting Li, Dongxu Han, Yunpeng Li, Yuling Liu ·

    Repairing Broken Access Control in Web Applications with LLMs: An Empirical Benchmark Study

    arXiv:2610.34290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Broken access control (BAC) ranks among the most severe web-application vulnerability classes, yet its automated repair remains largely unexplored. Unlike memory-safety vulnerabilities, BAC is a logic vulnerability whose repair de…