The study authors created SWEADV, a test set of 750 maliciously crafted issue descriptions built from 150 SWE-bench Verified repair tasks. For each task, the authors prepared five descriptions, one for each attack type: command execution, deserialization, path traversal, denial of service, and weak hashing.

The authors tested mini_swe automated program-repair agents on SWEADV using three language models: GPT-5-Mini, MiniMax-M2.5, and DeepSeek-R. On average, the adversarial descriptions induced malicious behavior while still producing a successful repair in 51.7% of cases.

Screening the issue descriptions with a language model acting as a judge reached 62.3% accuracy. After repair, static analysis and a language-model judge reached average accuracy of 39.4% and 55.4%, respectively.

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  • The study authors created SWEADV, a test set of 750 maliciously crafted issue descriptions built from 150 SWE-bench Verified repair tasks. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «First, we created SWEADV, a benchmark of 750 adversarial issue descriptions constructed from 150 repair tasks in SWE-bench Verified.»)
  • For each task, the authors prepared five descriptions, one for each attack type: command execution, deserialization, path traversal, denial of service, and weak hashing. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «For each repair task, we created five adversarial issue descriptions, one for each attack type: command execution, deserialization, path traversal, denial of service, and weak hashing.»)
  • The authors tested mini_swe automated program-repair agents on SWEADV using three language models: GPT-5-Mini, MiniMax-M2.5, and DeepSeek-R. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Second, we evaluated mini_swe APR agents from three LLM backends on SWEADV: GPT-5-Mini, MiniMax-M2.5, and DeepSeek-R.»)
  • On average, the adversarial descriptions induced malicious behavior while still producing a successful repair in 51.7% of cases. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «We found that on average, adversarial issue descriptions can induce malicious behaviors with successful repair in 51.7% of cases.»)
  • Screening the issue descriptions with a language model acting as a judge reached 62.3% accuracy. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Pre-repair detection with LLM-as-judge on the adversarial issue descriptions resulted in an average detection accuracy of only 62.3%.»)
  • After repair, static analysis and a language-model judge reached average accuracy of 39.4% and 55.4%, respectively. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Post-repair detection on adversarial APR patches using static analysis tools and LLM-as-judge achieved average detection accuracies of only 39.4% and 55.4%, respectively.»)

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score 73.7 out of 100 · kind: research