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The community's most comprehensive, continuously-updated index of research on Large Language Models for software vulnerability detection โ€” papers across function-level, repository-level, agentic, and smart-contract detection, plus datasets, benchmarks, and surveys.

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Awesome Large Language Models for Vulnerability Detection

A curated list of papers, projects, and agent skills on using LLMs for vulnerability detection and discovery.


๐Ÿ“„ Papers

Only showing 2025 and later. For earlier work, see Papers Archive (2024 and earlier).

Title Venue Year Paper Github
VulnGym: A Real-World, Project-Level Vulnerability Benchmark for White-Box Vulnerability-Hunting Agents 2026 link
VulTriage: Triple-Path Context Augmentation for LLM-Based Vulnerability Detection 2026 link link
Synthesizing Multi-Agent Harnesses for Vulnerability Discovery 2026 link link
QRS: A Rule-Synthesizing Neuro-Symbolic Triad for Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery 2026 link
Seclens: Role-specific Evaluation of LLM's for security vulnerablity detection 2026 link link
Do Fine-Tuned LLMs Understand Vulnerabilities? An Investigation into the Semantic Trap 2026 link
Sifting the Noise: A Comparative Study of LLM Agents in Vulnerability False Positive Filtering ISSTA 2026 link
AgenticSCR: An Autonomous Agentic Secure Code Review for Immature Vulnerabilities Detection 2026 link
LLM-based Vulnerability Detection at Project Scale: An Empirical Study 2026 link
MulVul: Retrieval-augmented Multi-Agent Code Vulnerability Detection via Cross-Model Prompt Evolution 2026 link
VulnLLM-R: Specialized Reasoning LLM with Agent Scaffold for Vulnerability Detection 2025 link
VULPO: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection via On-Policy LLM Optimization 2025 link
VulInstruct: Teaching LLMs Root-Cause Reasoning for Vulnerability Detection via Security Specifications 2025 link
From Large to Mammoth: A Comparative Evaluation of Large Language Models in Vulnerability Detection NDSS 2025 link
Benchmarking LLMs and LLM-based Agents in Practical Vulnerability Detection for Code Repositories ACL 2025 link link
A Systematic Literature Review on Detecting Software Vulnerabilities with Large Language Models 2025 link link
LLMxCPG: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection Through Code Property Graph-Guided Large Language Models Usenix 2025 link link
CLeVeR: Multi-modal Contrastive Learning for Vulnerability Code Representation ACL Findings 2025 link link
Mono: Is Your "Clean" Vulnerability Dataset Really Solvable? Exposing and Trapping Undecidable Patches and Beyond 2025 link link
Learning to Focus: Context Extraction for Efficient Code Vulnerability Detection with Language Models 2025 link
SV-TrustEval-C: Evaluating Structure and Semantic Reasoning in Large Language Models for Source Code Vulnerability Analysis SP 2025 link link
SecVulEval: Benchmarking LLMs for Real-World C/C++ Vulnerability Detection 2025 link link
CVE-Bench: Benchmarking LLM-based Software Engineering Agent's Ability to Repair Real-World CVE Vulnerabilities NAACL 2025 link link
R2Vul: Learning to Reason about Software Vulnerabilities with Reinforcement Learning and Structured Reasoning Distillation 2025 link link
Neuro-symbolic Static Analysis with LLM-generated Vulnerability Patterns 2025 link
Context-Enhanced Vulnerability Detection Based on Large Language Model 2025 link
Everything You Wanted to Know About LLM-based Vulnerability Detection But Were Afraid to Ask 2025 link link
MOS: Towards Effective Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection through Mixture-of-Experts Tuning of Large Language Models 2025 link
Abundant Modalities Offer More Nutrients: Multi-Modal-Based Function-Level Vulnerability Detection TOSEM 2025 link link
Generative Large Language Model usage in Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection 2025 link
Closing the Gap: A User Study on the Real-world Usefulness of AI-powered Vulnerability Detection & Repair in the IDE ICSE 2025 link link
Vulnerability Detection with Code Language Models: How Far Are We? ICSE 2025 link link
Combining Fine-Tuning and LLM-based Agents for Intuitive Smart Contract Auditing with Justifications ICSE 2025 link
LAMD: Context-driven Android Malware Detection and Classification with LLMs 2025 link
LLMs in Software Security: A Survey of Vulnerability Detection Techniques and Insights 2025 link link
One-for-All Does Not Work! Enhancing Vulnerability Detection by Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) 2025 link

๐Ÿš€ Projects

Name Description Github
OpenAnt (Knostic) LLM-powered multi-stage vulnerability discovery with adversarial verification link
DeepAudit Multi-agent AI red-team platform with Docker sandbox exploit validation link
AutoCVE Automated vulnerability detection and reporting with multi-agent architecture link
Darkmoon Open-source (GPL-3.0) autonomous AI pentest platform and MCP host; per-technology offensive sub-agents, Active Directory and Kubernetes coverage, 80+ orchestrated tools, evidence trail per finding link
strix Open-source autonomous AI penetration testing tool via pip link
deepsec (Vercel) Security harness for deep codebase vulnerability scanning with coding agents link

๐Ÿงฉ Agent Skills

Name Description Link
codex-security (OpenAI) Autonomous repo-level vulnerability scanning via Codex agents link
defending-code-reference-harness (Anthropic) Reference skills for threat modeling, scanning, triage, and patching with Claude Code link
security-audit-skill (Cloudflare) Six-phase security audit skill with parallel hunting agents and adversarial validation link

๐Ÿ“ก arxiv.md

Automated daily capture and update of Arxiv papers for specified keywords through workflows.

Acknowledgements

The project's Updated Arxiv Papers Daily workflow borrows from this project LLM4SE. I refactored its original code by using the arxiv library.

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