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Automated Exploit Generation

Automated Exploit Generation is a computational methodology in cybersecurity research that systematically synthesizes working exploits for identified software vulnerabilities without manual intervention, distinguishing itself from manual or semi-automated approaches by its reliance on formal models, symbolic execution, or program analysis techniques to fully automate exploit construction.

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142

Authors

58

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2017–2026

24

Variants

Aeg

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Unleashing Mayhem on Binary Code

Sang Kil, Thanassis Avgerinos, Alexandre Rebert et al. · 2012 · 521 citations

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Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation is Possible: Techniques and Implications

David Brumley, Pongsin Poosankam, Dawn Song et al. · Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2008 · 288 citations · Full text

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Automatic exploit generation

Thanassis Avgerinos, Sang Kil, Alexandre Rebert et al. · Communications of the ACM · 2014 · 258 citations

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AEG: Automatic Exploit Generation

Thanassis Avgerinos, Brent Lim Tze Hao, David Brumley · Figshare · 2018 · 209 citations · Full text

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teEther: Gnawing at Ethereum to Automatically Exploit Smart Contracts

Johannes Krupp, Christian Rossow · Figshare · 2018 · 206 citations

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Authors

142

  1. DB
    David Brumley

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    8 publications · 1.5K citations

    8

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  2. DS
    Dawn Song

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    4 publications · 420 citations

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  3. SH
    Sean Heelan

    ImmunityBio (United States), United States

    4 publications · 97 citations

    4

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  4. VN
    V. N. Venkatakrishnan

    University of Illinois Chicago, United States

    3 publications · 83 citations

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  5. DK
    Daniel Kroening

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 67 citations

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Institutions

58

  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    7 h-index

    22 publications

    5.1K citations

  2. Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA)

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    127 citations

  3. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    321 citations

  4. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

    Hsinchu, Taiwan

    3 h-index

    16 publications

    602 citations

  5. Dalhousie University

    Halifax, Canada

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    114 citations

  6. National University of Defense Technology

    Changsha, China

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    81 citations

  7. National Security Technologies (United States)

    Las Vegas, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    228 citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    318 citations

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Venues

  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 6 publications · 190 citations

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  2. Figshare

    Repository · 2 publications · 415 citations

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

    TDSC · 2 publications · 77 citations

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