GNUnet P2P Framework 0.26.2

GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP IPv4 and IPv6, TCP IPv4 and IPv6, HTTP, o...

AI Agents May Always Fall for Prompt Injections

Prompt injection is the most critical vulnerability in deployed AI agents. Despite recent progress, we show that the prevailing defense paradigm data-instruction separation both fails to detect attacks that operate through contextual manipulation and degrades contextually appropriate behavior. We...

IServ Schoolserver User Enumeration

IServ Schoolserver suffers from a user enumeration vulnerability. The vendor does not feel this is an issue...

Poison Once, Exploit Forever: Environment-Injected Memory Poisoning Attacks on Web Agents

Memory makes LLM-based web agents personalized, powerful, yet exploitable. By storing past interactions to personalize future tasks, agents inadvertently create a persistent attack surface that spans websites and sessions. While existing security research on memory assumes attackers can directly...

AgentSentinel: an End-To-End and Real-Time Security Defense Framework for Computer-Use Agents

Large Language Models LLMs have been increasingly integrated into computer-use agents, which can autonomously operate tools on a user's computer to accomplish complex tasks. However, due to the inherently unstable and unpredictable nature of LLM outputs, they may issue unintended tool commands or...

Everything You Wanted to Know about LLM-Based Vulnerability Detection but Were Afraid to Ask

Large Language Models are a promising tool for automated vulnerability detection, thanks to their success in code generation and repair. However, despite widespread adoption, a critical question remains: Are LLMs truly effective at detecting real-world vulnerabilities? Current evaluations, which...

A Comprehensive Study on the Impact of Vulnerable Dependencies on Open-Source Software

Open-source libraries are widely used by software developers to speed up the development of products, however, they can introduce security vulnerabilities, leading to incidents like Log4Shell. With the expanding usage of open-source libraries, it becomes even more imperative to comprehend and...

QLCoder: A Query Synthesizer for Static Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities

Static analysis tools provide a powerful means to detect security vulnerabilities by specifying queries that encode vulnerable code patterns. However, writing such queries is challenging and requires diverse expertise in security and program analysis. To address this challenge, we present QLCoder...

PBFuzz: Agentic Directed Fuzzing for PoV Generation

Proof-of-Vulnerability PoV input generation is a critical task in software security and supports downstream applications such as path generation and validation. Generating a PoV input requires solving two sets of constraints: 1 reachability constraints for reaching vulnerable code locations, and ...

deepSURF: Detecting Memory Safety Vulnerabilities in Rust through Fuzzing LLM-Augmented Harnesses

Although Rust ensures memory safety by default, it also permits the use of unsafe code, which can introduce memory safety vulnerabilities if misused. Unfortunately, existing tools for detecting memory bugs in Rust typically exhibit limited detection capabilities, inadequately handle Rust-specific...

Automating Function-Level TARA for Automotive Full-Lifecycle Security

As modern vehicles evolve into intelligent and connected systems, their growing complexity introduces significant cybersecurity risks. Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment TARA has therefore become essential for managing these risks under mandatory regulations. However, existing TARA automation...

PATCHEVAL: A New Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Patching Real-World Vulnerabilities

Software vulnerabilities are increasing at an alarming rate. However, manual patching is both time-consuming and resource-intensive, while existing automated vulnerability repair AVR techniques remain limited in effectiveness. Recent advances in large language models LLMs have opened a new paradi...

Broken Object Level Authorization in the Wild: An Empirical Taxonomy from 100+ Bug Bounty Disclosures

Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA is consistently ranked the most critical API security vulnerability, yet the existing literature remains almost entirely conceptual. This paper presents one of the first large-scale empirical analyses of BOLA in publicly disclosed bug bounty reports. We...

Membrane: A Self-Evolving Contrastive Safety Memory for LLM Agent Defense

Despite advances in safety alignment, large language models remain vulnerable to continuously evolving jailbreaks. Existing fine-tuned safety classifiers cannot adapt to these evolving attacks, while adaptive memory-based guardrails tend to over-refuse benign queries that resemble stored attacks...

ExploitBench: A Capability Ladder Benchmark for LLM Cybersecurity Agents

Exploitation is not a binary event. It is a ladder of acquiring progressive capabilities, from executing a single buggy line of code to taking full control of the target. However, existing LLM security benchmarks treat a crash as exploitation success. That single binary outcome collapses the hard...

WordPress TI WooCommerce Wishlist 2.9.2 Arbitrary File Upload

WordPress TI WooCommerce Wishlist plugin versions 2.9.2 and below suffer from an arbitrary file upload vulnerability...

A Framework for Formalizing LLM Agent Security

Security in LLM agents is inherently contextual. For example, the same action taken by an agent may represent legitimate behavior or a security violation depending on whose instruction led to the action, what objective is being pursued, and whether the action serves that objective. However,...

CTFusion: A CTF-Based Benchmark for LLM Agent Evaluation

Recent advances in Large Language Models LLMs have enabled agentic systems for complex, multi-step tasks; cybersecurity is emerging as a prominent application. To evaluate such agents, researchers widely adopt Capture The Flag CTF benchmarks. However, current CTF benchmarks reuse existing...

PentestEval: Benchmarking LLM-Based Penetration Testing with Modular and Stage-Level Design

Penetration testing is essential for assessing and strengthening system security against real-world threats, yet traditional workflows remain highly manual, expertise-intensive, and difficult to scale. Although recent advances in Large Language Models LLMs offer promising opportunities for...

Apple Security Advisory 03-31-2025-7

Apple Security Advisory 03-31-2025-7 - macOS Sequoia 15.4 addresses buffer overflow, bypass, code execution, format string, heap corruption, integer overflow, out of bounds read, out of bounds write, spoofing, and use-after-free vulnerabilities...

Benchmarking Poisoning Attacks against Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG has proven effective in mitigating hallucinations in large language models by incorporating external knowledge during inference. However, this integration introduces new security vulnerabilities, particularly to poisoning attacks. Although prior work has explore...

What Makes a Good LLM Agent for Real-World Penetration Testing?

LLM-based agents show promise for automating penetration testing, yet reported performance varies widely across systems and benchmarks. We analyze 28 LLM-based penetration testing systems and evaluate five representative implementations across three benchmarks of increasing complexity. Our analys...

Under the Hood of SKILL.Md: Semantic Supply-Chain Attacks on AI Agent Skill Registry

Autonomous AI agents increasingly extend their capabilities through Agent Skills: modular filesystem packages whose SKILL.md files describe when and how agents should use them. While this design enables scalable, on-demand capability expansion, it also introduces a semantic supply-chain risk in...

Gibbon 25.0.0 Local File Inclusion

Gibbon version 25.0.0 local file inclusion exploit that downloads a SQL dump...

MetInfo CMS 8.1 WeChat Module Vulnerability Detection Scanner

This Metasploit auxiliary module is a non-exploit vulnerability detection scanner designed to assess potential security weaknesses in the MetInfo CMS WeChat module, specifically related to weixinreply.class.php handling logic...

ZeroDayBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Unseen Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Cyberdefense

Large language models LLMs are increasingly being deployed as software engineering agents that autonomously contribute to repositories. A major benefit these agents present is their ability to find and patch security vulnerabilities in the codebases they oversee. To estimate the capability of...

SkillGuard: A Permission Framework for Agent Skills

Agent skills extend LLM agents with reusable instructions, scripts, tool bindings, and contextual dependencies. However, current skill ecosystems largely rely on trust-based loading and static inspection, leaving a gap between what a skill can inject into an agent's context and what it can cause...

PyFEX: Uncovering Evasive Python-Based Threats Via Resilient and Exhaustive Path Exploration

The rapid expansion of the Python ecosystem has fueled two distinct but converging threats: adversaries increasingly target the software supply chain via the Python Package Index PyPI, while also building evasive, cross-platform malicious binaries compiled from source code written in Python...

Win32 Calc Shellcode

This is a 14-byte Win32 shellcode that opens calc.exe using a fixed CALL rel32 offset on Windows XP SP 3 English...

GraphQLer: Enhancing GraphQL Security with Context-Aware API Testing

GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language for web applications, offering a flexible alternative to RESTful APIs. However, its dynamic execution model and lack of built-in security mechanisms expose it to vulnerabilities such as unauthorized data access, denial-of-service DoS...

WebMCP Tool Surface Poisoning: Runtime Manipulation Attacks on LLM Agents

WebMCP is a newly emerging protocol that enables websites to expose tools directly to AI agents, bypassing traditional user interfaces and introducing new security risks. The dynamic exposure of agent-accessible tools in WebMCP expands the attack surface of web sessions, especially when third-par...

A Hard-Label Black-Box Evasion Attack against ML-Based Malicious Traffic Detection Systems

Machine Learning ML-based malicious traffic detection is a promising security paradigm. It outperforms rule-based traditional detection by identifying various advanced attacks. However, the robustness of these ML models is largely unexplored, thereby allowing attackers to craft adversarial traffi...

WordPress Order Delivery Date Missing Authorization

WordPress Order Delivery Date plugin versions prior to 12.3.1 have missing authorization and cross site request forgery vulnerabilities surrounding the importing of settings...

Revelio: Cost-Efficient Agentic Memory Safety Vulnerability Detection for Repository-Scale Codebases

Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a significant threat even for projects with extensive fuzzing and manual auditing. Recent results suggest that large language models hold great promise for detecting such vulnerabilities, but they are unreliable, at risk of hallucination, and challenging to...

When AI Meets the Web: Prompt Injection Risks in Third-Party AI Chatbot Plugins

Prompt injection attacks pose a critical threat to large language models LLMs, with prior work focusing on cutting-edge LLM applications like personal copilots. In contrast, simpler LLM applications, such as customer service chatbots, are widespread on the web, yet their security posture and...

LLM Agent Safety, Multi-Turn Red-Teaming, Jailbreak Benchmarks, Adversarial Robustness, Safety-Critical Systems

Large language model LLM agents are increasingly proposed as supervisory components for safety-critical systems, yet their robustness under sustained, adaptive adversarial pressure remains poorly characterized. We present NRT-Bench, a benchmark for multi-turn red-teaming of LLM agents acting as...

Automatically Attacking Software Reverse Engineering AI Agents

Software tools for reverse engineering executable binary files, such as Ghidra, enable malware analysts to safely conduct robust static analysis without having access to original source code. Coupled with the analytic power of large language models LLM, agentic systems enabled with tools, such as...

MikroTik RouterOS Username Enumeration

MikroTik RouterOS suffers from a username enumeration vulnerability...

Sifting the Noise: A Comparative Study of LLM Agents in Vulnerability False Positive Filtering

Static Application Security Testing SAST tools are essential for identifying software vulnerabilities, but they often produce a high volume of false positives FPs, imposing a substantial manual triage burden on developers. Recent advances in Large Language Model LLM agents offer a promising...

EchoLeak: the First Real-World Zero-Click Prompt Injection Exploit in a Production LLM System

Large language model LLM assistants are increasingly integrated into enterprise workflows, raising new security concerns as they bridge internal and external data sources. This paper presents an in-depth case study of EchoLeak CVE-2025-32711, a zero-click prompt injection vulnerability in Microso...

WordPress WPMasterToolKit 1.13.1 Shell Upload

WordPress WPMasterToolKit plugin versions 1.13.1 and below remote shell upload exploit...

PickleFuzzer: A Case Study in Fuzzing for Discrepancies between Python Pickle Implementations

Python's native serialization protocol, pickle, is a powerful but insecure format for transferring untrusted data. It is frequently used, especially for saving machine learning models, despite known security challenges. While developers sometimes mitigate this risk by restricting imports during...

ARIstoteles -- Dissecting Apple's Baseband Interface

Wireless chips and interfaces expose a substantial remote attack surface. As of today, most cellular baseband security research is performed on the Android ecosystem, leaving a huge gap on Apple devices. With iOS jailbreaks, last-generation wireless chips become fairly accessible for performance...

Sparse Autoencoders Are Capable LLM Jailbreak Mitigators

Jailbreak attacks remain a persistent threat to large language model safety. We propose Context-Conditioned Delta Steering CC-Delta, an SAE-based defense that identifies jailbreak-relevant sparse features by comparing token-level representations of the same harmful request with and without...

Separating Secrets from Placeholders: A Hybrid CNN-CodeBERT Framework for Three-Class Credential Leakage Detection

Credential leakage in public source code repositories poses a critical security threat, with over 23.8 million secrets exposed in 2024 alone. Existing detection tools suffer from high false-positive rates because rigid pattern matching and binary classification schemes fail to distinguish genuine...

OpenAnt: LLM-Powered Vulnerability Discovery through Code Decomposition, Adversarial Verification, and Dynamic Testing

Automated vulnerability discovery in large codebases remains challenging: traditional static analysis produces high false-positive rates, while dynamic approaches such as fuzzing require substantial infrastructure and often target narrow classes of bugs. Recent advances in large language models...

Poking around in the Dark: Why a Shared Understanding of Components Matters

By listing the components included in an application, Software Bills of Materials SBOMs are intended to support the timely identification of vulnerable components and ensure the security of the software supply chain. However, we question the underlying assumption that there is agreement on the...

An Empirical Security Evaluation of LLM-Generated Cryptographic Rust Code

Developers and organizations are using Large Language Models LLMs to generate security-critical code more frequently than ever, including cryptographic solutions for their products. This study presents an empirical evaluation of cryptographic security in 240 Rust code samples for two crypto...

SkillAttack: Automated Red Teaming of Agent Skills through Attack Path Refinement

LLM-based agent systems increasingly rely on agent skills sourced from open registries to extend their capabilities, yet the openness of such ecosystems makes skills difficult to thoroughly vet. Existing attacks rely on injecting malicious instructions into skills, making them easily detectable b...

ZERO-APT: A Closed-Loop Adversarial Framework for LLM-Driven Automated Penetration Testing under Intelligent Defense

LLM-driven automated penetration testing agents are typically evaluated against static targets that neither detect nor respond to attacks, so their behavior under intelligent defense remains untested. The causal consistency of multi-step attack chains likewise hinges on unstable LLM reasoning, an...