CyberDual: AI Attackers versus AI Code Reviewers in Real Software Maintenance
CyberDual pits AI attackers against AI code reviewers on real open-source maintenance tasks, revealing that adversarial agents can slip exploitable bugs past automated review — a direct challenge to AI-only code-review trust.
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arXiv:2610.34435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-source projects now let AI agents review incoming code, but the code under review may itself come from an AI attacker. We present CyberDual, an arena for this dual role of AI: attacker agents hide an exploitable bug in real maintenance work on widely used open-source projects, and reviewer agents try to find and repair it. Execution decides each match: we rerun the attacker's proof of concept (PoC) on the code that comes out of review. Every
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises adopting AI code review must recognise that adversarial AI can systematically defeat it — relying solely on AI reviewers for security assurance is premature.
Mandate layered code-review controls combining AI, SAST tooling, and human review for any security-relevant code path.
AI-only code review can be systematically defeated by adversarial AI — human oversight remains essential for security-critical software.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
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