DualGauge: Automated Joint Security-Functionality Benchmarking of Specification-Only Code Generation by LLMs and Coding Agents
Rupam Patir, Keyan Guo, Suvadra Barua, Abhijeet Pathak, Dinesh Gudimetla, Jiawei Guo, Hongxin Hu, Haipeng Cai
原文摘要
Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based coding agents are now used to generate code from natural-language specifications, yet ensuring such code is both functionally correct and secure remains a challenge. We present DualGauge, the first fully automated framework for jointly evaluating correctness and security of specification-only code generation, supported by DualGauge-Bench, a language-agnostic benchmark of 307 coding tasks each paired with functional and security tests derived from the same specification. Evaluating 10 representative LLMs across Python, C++, and JavaScript, we find that functional correctness substantially overestimates reliable code generation: even the strongest model remains below 15% joint security-functionality success in every language. Common model-side factors--scale, extended thinking, quantization, instruction tuning, and code specialization--do not reliably improve joint performance, suggesting secure-and-correct code generation does not simply emerge from stronger coding capability. Evaluation of 3 leading coding agents (Codex, OpenHands, and Claude Code) shows that iterative scaffolding is not a reliable remedy on specification-only tasks: results are strongly scaffold-dependent, with two of the three agents failing to outperform a comparable direct model. A qualitative audit reveals that these failures concentrate at the output contract boundary and in guards that exist but are insufficient--patterns that only joint benchmarking reliably exposes.
cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.CR