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10 papers

cs.CR2026

ARVO: Atlas of Reproducible Vulnerabilities for Open-Source Software

Xiang Mei, Jordi Del Castillo, Pulkit Singh Singaria +8

Achieving reproducibility, quantity, and diversity in vulnerability datasets has long been viewed as an inherent three-way trade-off, where improving one dimension often comes at t…

cs.CR2026

ARVO: Atlas of Reproducible Vulnerabilities for Open-Source Software

Xiang Mei, Jordi Del Castillo, Pulkit Singh Singaria +8

Achieving reproducibility, quantity, and diversity in vulnerability datasets has long been viewed as an inherent three-way trade-off, where improving one dimension often comes at t…

cs.CR2026

CTFExplorer: Evaluating LLM Offensive Agents Through Multi-Target Web CTF Benchmarking

Nanda Rani, Kimberly Milner, Minghao Shao +9

Existing benchmarks for LLM-based offensive security agents use isolated, single-target setups with a known vulnerable service and fixed objective. They measure exploitation effect…

cs.CR2026

Towards Effective Offensive Security LLM Agents: Hyperparameter Tuning, LLM as a Judge, and a Lightweight CTF Benchmark

Minghao Shao, Nanda Rani, Kimberly Milner +9

Recent advances in LLM agentic systems have improved the automation of offensive security tasks, particularly for Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges. We systematically investigate t…

cs.SE2026

AI In Cybersecurity Education -- Scalable Agentic CTF Design Principles and Educational Outcomes

Haoran Xi, Minghao Shao, Kimberly Milner +11

Large language models are rapidly changing how learners acquire and demonstrate cybersecurity skills. However, when human--AI collaboration is allowed, educators still lack validat…

cs.SE2026

From Trace to Line: LLM Agent for Real-World OSS Vulnerability Localization

Haoran Xi, Minghao Shao, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt +2

Large language models show promise for vulnerability discovery, yet prevailing methods inspect code in isolation, struggle with long contexts, and focus on coarse function- or file…