补丁路径上的智能体:在 GitHub 安全公告中挖掘与 AI 相关的安全修复
Agents on the Patch Path: Mining AI-Associated Security Remediation in GitHub Security Advisories
Claudio Segal, Paulo Segal, Hudson Silva Borges, Paulo Silveira, Daniel S. Menasché, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Felipe de Sant'Anna Paixão, Joanna C. S. Santos 等 11 位作者
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作者通过本地 Git 挖掘流程,在经审核的 GitHub Security Advisories(GHSA)所引用的提交中识别编码智能体参与安全修复的可观察证据,并比较相关公告的审核时延。
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Autonomous coding agents are increasingly involved in software development, but their participation in real-world security remediation remains poorly understood. We investigate observable evidence of coding-agent involvement in commits referenced by reviewed GitHub Security Advisories (GHSAs), characterize the associated vulnerabilities, and examine review timing in relation to advisory disclosure routes. We develop a local-Git mining pipeline that identifies agent evidence through known agent accounts, explicit commit-message attribution, repository instruction files, and agent configuration artifacts. Linking these findings to GHSA-referenced commits yields 469 valid candidate advisories across 189 repositories, including 448 with direct attribution and 21 supported only by repository-level evidence. Claude is the most frequently observed tool family, followed by Copilot and Cursor. We further compare review timing against other advisories and historical baselines using an exact route--timing decomposition. Relative to advisories published in the same months, candidate advisories exhibit a modestly longer mean review lag, primarily associated with within-route timing rather than disclosure-route composition. Compared with a historical baseline, they exhibit substantially shorter mean review lags, with both route composition and within-route timing contributing to the difference. These findings demonstrate that coding-agent involvement is already observable across hundreds of security advisories and repositories, including high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities. By distinguishing direct attribution from repository-level adoption evidence and separating route-composition effects from within-route timing differences, we provide an empirical characterization of agent-associated remediation in the GHSA review pipeline.