AI vulnerability patching has a grading problem

Reported by Help Net Security (Anamarija Pogorelec)

Summary by Cyber Security News12 Oct 2026, 06:45 CET

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Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the project’s maintainers wrote for the fix. With Claude Opus 4.7, third of the patches that made the crash go away still failed those maintainer tests.

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