huhusmang/awesome-llms-for-vulnerability-detectionThe community's most comprehensive, continuously-updated index of research on Large Language Models for software vulnerability detection — papers across function-level, repository-level, agentic, and smart-contract detection, plus datasets, benchmarks, and surveys.
A curated list of papers, projects, and agent skills on using LLMs for vulnerability detection and discovery.
Only showing 2025 and later. For earlier work, see Papers Archive (2024 and earlier).
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| VulnGym: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Repository-Level Vulnerability Detection | 2026 | link | 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Name | Description | Link |
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| 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 |
