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Vulnerability Localization Benchmark: Measuring Agentic Security Analysis at Repository Scale
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers released VLoc Bench, a benchmark with 500 real vulnerabilities across 290 repositories, measuring how well AI agents locate vulnerable code files given only CWE descriptions.
- Why it matters
- Security engineers and AI researchers evaluating agentic code analysis tools need this to understand current localization capabilities and limitations at repository scale.
- Watch out
- Best system achieved only 0.229 File F1 score; 38% of tasks received no correct localization from any model, indicating the task remains substantially unsolved.
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