arxivcs.AI2026-07-02
Mastermind: Strategy-grounded Learning for Repository-Scale Vulnerability Reproduction
Mingzhe Du, Luu Anh Tuan, Tianyi Wu, Renyang Liu, Zhijiang Guo, Dong Huang, et al.
Repository-level vulnerability reproduction is a demanding software engineering (SE) task: an agent must inspect a codebase, infer the input grammar that reaches a vulnerable path, construct a proof-of-conceptv(PoC), and verify that the crash disappears on the patched build. Rece…