Breaking the Code: Security Assessment of AI Code Agents Through Systematic Jailbreaking Attacks
Systematic jailbreak evaluation of code-generating LLM agents reveals that real execution capabilities amplify risk far beyond text-only refusal benchmarks, demanding pipeline-level guardrails in enterprise dev environments.
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arXiv:2510.01359v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Code-capable large language model (LLM) agents are embedded in software engineering workflows where they can read, write, and execute code, raising "jailbreak" stakes beyond text-only settings. Prior evaluations emphasize refusal or harmful-text detection, leaving open whether agents compile and run malicious programs. We present JAWS-Bench (Jailbreaks Across WorkSpaces), a benchmark spanning three escalating workspace regimes mirroring attack
Editorial Analysis
As enterprises adopt AI coding assistants, this research highlights that safety evaluations focused on text refusal are insufficient — real execution contexts create materially different threat surfaces.
Audit every AI code agent deployment for jailbreak resilience and enforce output sandboxing before code merges.
AI coding tools in your dev pipeline can be manipulated to write harmful code; safety controls must match the execution privilege granted.
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