Lean and Mean: How We Fine-Tuned a Small Language Model for Secret Detection in Code

Building an efficient small language model for cybersecurity, from data prep to deployment...

Mono: Is Your "Clean" Vulnerability Dataset Really Solvable? Exposing and Trapping Undecidable Patches and Beyond

The quantity and quality of vulnerability datasets are essential for developing deep learning solutions to vulnerability-related tasks. Due to the limited availability of vulnerabilities, a common approach to building such datasets is analyzing security patches in source code. However, existing...

Your Agent Can Defend Itself against Backdoor Attacks

Despite their growing adoption across domains, large language model LLM-powered agents face significant security risks from backdoor attacks during training and fine-tuning. These compromised agents can subsequently be manipulated to execute malicious operations when presented with specific...

Auditing Black-Box LLM APIs with a Rank-Based Uniformity Test

As API access becomes a primary interface to large language models LLMs, users often interact with black-box systems that offer little transparency into the deployed model. To reduce costs or maliciously alter model behaviors, API providers may discreetly serve quantized or fine-tuned variants,...

How Good LLM-Generated Password Policies Are?

Generative AI technologies, particularly Large Language Models LLMs, are rapidly being adopted across industry, academia, and government sectors, owing to their remarkable capabilities in natural language processing. However, despite their strengths, the inconsistency and unpredictability of LLM...

MARVEL: Multi-Agent RTL Vulnerability Extraction Using Large Language Models

Hardware security verification is a challenging and time-consuming task. For this purpose, design engineers may utilize tools such as formal verification, linters, and functional simulation tests, coupled with analysis and a deep understanding of the hardware design being inspected. Large Languag...

A Comprehensive Survey in LLM(-Agent) Full Stack Safety: Data, Training and Deployment

The remarkable success of Large Language Models LLMs has illuminated a promising pathway toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence for both academic and industrial communities, owing to their unprecedented performance across various applications. As LLMs continue to gain prominence in both...

Urania: Differentially Private Insights into AI Use

We introduce $Urania$, a novel framework for generating insights about LLM chatbot interactions with rigorous differential privacy DP guarantees. The framework employs a private clustering mechanism and innovative keyword extraction methods, including frequency-based, TF-IDF-based, and LLM-guided...

ATAG: AI-Agent Application Threat Assessment with Attack Graphs

Evaluating the security of multi-agent systems MASs powered by large language models LLMs is challenging, primarily because of the systems' complex internal dynamics and the evolving nature of LLM vulnerabilities. Traditional attack graph AG methods often lack the specific capabilities to model...

Dot 跨站脚本漏洞

Dot is a text-to-speech, RAG and LLM tool by alexpinel individual developers. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Dot 0.9.3 and earlier versions, which stems from user input and LLM output being appended to the DOM using innerHTML, which could lead to cross-site scripting and command...

PYSEC-2025-54

vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models LLMs. In versions 0.8.0 up to but excluding 0.9.0, hitting the /v1/completions API with a invalid jsonschema as a Guided Param kills the vllm server. This vulnerability is similar GHSA-9hcf-v7m4-6m2j/CVE-2025-48943, but for regex...

PYSEC-2025-50

vLLM, an inference and serving engine for large language models LLMs, has a Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDoS vulnerability in the file vllm/entrypoints/openai/toolparsers/pythonictoolparser.py of versions 0.6.4 up to but excluding 0.9.0. The root cause is the use of a highly complex and...

vLLM 安全漏洞

vLLM is a high throughput and memory efficient inference and service engine for LLM from the vLLM open source. A security vulnerability exists in vLLM versions prior to 0.6.4 through 0.9.0 that stems from a complex regular expression used in tool call detection that could lead to a regular...

vLLM 输入验证错误漏洞

vLLM is a high throughput and memory efficient inference and service engine for LLM from the vLLM open source. An input validation error vulnerability exists in vLLM versions prior to 0.8.0 through 0.9.0, which stems from accidental or malformed inputs in the pattern and type fields that are not...

Merge Hijacking: Backdoor Attacks to Model Merging of Large Language Models

Model merging for Large Language Models LLMs directly fuses the parameters of different models finetuned on various tasks, creating a unified model for multi-domain tasks. However, due to potential vulnerabilities in models available on open-source platforms, model merging is susceptible to...

Incomplete Comparison with Missing Factors

Overview vllm is an A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incomplete Comparison with Missing Factors due to the implementation of image hashing in hasher.py. An attacker can achieve hash collisions and...

The Feasibility of Topic-Based Watermarking on Academic Peer Reviews

Large language models LLMs are increasingly integrated into academic workflows, with many conferences and journals permitting their use for tasks such as language refinement and literature summarization. However, their use in peer review remains prohibited due to concerns around confidentiality...

JavaSith: a Client-Side Framework for Analyzing Potentially Malicious Extensions in Browsers, VS Code, and NPM Packages

Modern software supply chains face an increasing threat from malicious code hidden in trusted components such as browser extensions, IDE extensions, and open-source packages. This paper introduces JavaSith, a novel client-side framework for analyzing potentially malicious extensions in web...

Red-Teaming Text-To-Image Systems by Rule-Based Preference Modeling

Text-to-image T2I models raise ethical and safety concerns due to their potential to generate inappropriate or harmful images. Evaluating these models' security through red-teaming is vital, yet white-box approaches are limited by their need for internal access, complicating their use with...

Exemplifying Emerging Phishing: QR-Based Browser-In-The-Browser (BiTB) Attack

Lately, cybercriminals constantly formulate productive approaches to exploit individuals. This article exemplifies an innovative attack, namely QR-based Browser-in-The-Browser BiTB, using proficiencies of Large Language Model LLM i.e. Google Gemini. The presented attack is a fusion of two emergin...