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Extracting Recurring Vulnerabilities from Black-Box LLM-Generated Software

Tomer Kordonsky
Maayan Yamin
Noam Benzimra
Amit LeVi
Avi Mendelson
Main:9 Pages
3 Figures
Bibliography:2 Pages
30 Tables
Appendix:20 Pages
Abstract

LLMs are increasingly used for code generation, but their outputs often follow recurring templates that can induce predictable vulnerabilities. We study vulnerability persistence in LLM-generated software and introduce Feature--Security Table (FSTab) with two components. First, FSTab enables a black-box attack that predicts likely backend vulnerabilities from observable frontend features and knowledge of the source LLM, without access to the backend or source code. Second, FSTab provides a model-centric evaluation that quantifies how consistently a model reproduces the same vulnerabilities across programs, semantics-preserving rephrasings, and application domains. We evaluate FSTab on state-of-the-art code LLMs, including GPT-5.2, Claude-4.5 Opus, and Gemini-3 Pro, across diverse application domains. Our results show strong cross-domain transfer: even when the target domain is excluded from training, FSTab achieves up to 94% attack success and 93% vulnerability coverage on Internal Tools (Claude-4.5 Opus). These findings expose an underexplored attack surface in LLM-generated software and highlight the security risks of code generation. Our code is available atthis https URL

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