- OpenAI introduces Aardvark, an autonomous AI agent for scalable vulnerability detection and patching
- Aardvark simulates human researchers: reading code, running tests, and suggesting targeted security fixes.
- In performance tests, Aardvark achieved a 92% success rate on known vulnerable repositories.
OpenAI wants your next security researcher to be a bot and has launched aardvarkproprietary security research agent powered by ChatGPT.
Currently in private beta, the company describes Aardvark as a “breakthrough” in artificial intelligence and security research—an autonomous agent that helps developers and security teams discover and fix security flaws “at scale.”
“Every year, tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered in enterprise and open source codebases,” the company said. “Defenders will face the daunting task of finding and fixing vulnerabilities before their adversaries do.”
Imitating human behavior
In benchmark testing of so-called “gold” repositories (those that contain well-documented vulnerabilities and are used for testing), Aardvark's success rate appears to be 92%.
Detailing how it works, OpenAI said the aardvark is not unlike a human, but without the need to rest, eat, use the toilet or experience occasional emotional breakdowns.
“Aardvark looks for bugs the way a human security researcher might: by reading code, analyzing it, writing and running tests, using tools, and more,” it said. By continuously analyzing source code repositories, it can identify vulnerabilities, assess exploitability, prioritize severity, and then propose targeted fixes.
While the company stresses that the tool is still in beta testing, it also says it is already showing commendable results. OpenAI had been using it internally “for several months” in its codebases and those of “external alpha partners” and was able to identify “significant vulnerabilities” that contributed to OpenAI's defensive posture.
An I have an agent is a standalone artificial intelligence program that connects to other applications to automatically perform various tasks. Their popularity has been growing recently, with different agents being created for different purposes, such as the AI Zencoder encoding agent, Instagram analysis agent (built on top of Apify), Compuser (an AI that “uses a computer”) and others.
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