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KaliBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Cybersecurity Tool Use on Kali Linux with Runtime-Free Verifiable Rewards
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- KaliBench is a benchmark dataset with 8,504 query-command pairs for evaluating how well LLMs translate natural language into executable Kali Linux cybersecurity tool commands.
- Why it matters
- Security engineers and ML researchers building or evaluating AI systems that must generate precise command-line instructions for penetration testing and security analysis workflows.
- Watch out
- No open-weight model exceeded 42% exact-command accuracy without tool hints, suggesting current LLMs struggle with CLI syntax precision despite improvements from fine-tuning.
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