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New Benchmark Reveals LLM Limitations in Software Security Tasks

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A new benchmark called SEC-bench Pro has been developed to evaluate the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in complex, long-horizon software security tasks, such as finding vulnerabilities in real-world systems. The benchmark includes 183 validated vulnerabilities from V8 and SpiderMonkey, with a significant portion of these having substantial rewards from Google's Vulnerability Reward Program. Current frontier models demonstrate less than 40% success on these tasks, highlighting limitations in LLM-based bug hunting for intricate software security challenges. AI

IMPACT Highlights current LLM limitations in complex software security tasks, suggesting a need for improved agent capabilities in this domain.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper introducing a new benchmark for evaluating AI capabilities. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Benchmark Reveals LLM Limitations in Software Security Tasks

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Hwiwon Lee, Jiawei Liu, Dongjun Kim, Ziqi Zhang, Chunqiu Steven Xia, Lingming Zhang ·

    SEC-bench Pro: Can Language Models Solve Long-Horizon Software Security Tasks?

    arXiv:2605.26548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) now support automated software security tasks, including vulnerability discovery and proof-of-concept (PoC) generation. Existing benchmarks do not faithfully evaluate LLMs in real-world bug hunting sce…

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