Co-RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents

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Main Authors: He, Pengfei, Fox, Ash, Miculicich, Lesly, Friedli, Stefan, Fabian, Daniel, Gokturk, Burak, Tang, Jiliang, Lee, Chen-Yu, Pfister, Tomas, Le, Long T.
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author He, Pengfei
Fox, Ash
Miculicich, Lesly
Friedli, Stefan
Fabian, Daniel
Gokturk, Burak
Tang, Jiliang
Lee, Chen-Yu
Pfister, Tomas
Le, Long T.
author_facet He, Pengfei
Fox, Ash
Miculicich, Lesly
Friedli, Stefan
Fabian, Daniel
Gokturk, Burak
Tang, Jiliang
Lee, Chen-Yu
Pfister, Tomas
Le, Long T.
contents Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in assisting cybersecurity tasks, yet existing approaches struggle with automatic vulnerability discovery and exploitation due to limited interaction, weak execution grounding, and a lack of experience reuse. We propose Co-RedTeam, a security-aware multi-agent framework designed to mirror real-world red-teaming workflows by integrating security-domain knowledge, code-aware analysis, execution-grounded iterative reasoning, and long-term memory. Co-RedTeam decomposes vulnerability analysis into coordinated discovery and exploitation stages, enabling agents to plan, execute, validate, and refine actions based on real execution feedback while learning from prior trajectories. Extensive evaluations on challenging security benchmarks demonstrate that Co-RedTeam consistently outperforms strong baselines across diverse backbone models, achieving over 60% success rate in vulnerability exploitation and over 10% absolute improvement in vulnerability detection. Ablation and iteration studies further confirm the critical role of execution feedback, structured interaction, and memory for building robust and generalizable cybersecurity agents.
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spellingShingle Co-RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents
He, Pengfei
Fox, Ash
Miculicich, Lesly
Friedli, Stefan
Fabian, Daniel
Gokturk, Burak
Tang, Jiliang
Lee, Chen-Yu
Pfister, Tomas
Le, Long T.
Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in assisting cybersecurity tasks, yet existing approaches struggle with automatic vulnerability discovery and exploitation due to limited interaction, weak execution grounding, and a lack of experience reuse. We propose Co-RedTeam, a security-aware multi-agent framework designed to mirror real-world red-teaming workflows by integrating security-domain knowledge, code-aware analysis, execution-grounded iterative reasoning, and long-term memory. Co-RedTeam decomposes vulnerability analysis into coordinated discovery and exploitation stages, enabling agents to plan, execute, validate, and refine actions based on real execution feedback while learning from prior trajectories. Extensive evaluations on challenging security benchmarks demonstrate that Co-RedTeam consistently outperforms strong baselines across diverse backbone models, achieving over 60% success rate in vulnerability exploitation and over 10% absolute improvement in vulnerability detection. Ablation and iteration studies further confirm the critical role of execution feedback, structured interaction, and memory for building robust and generalizable cybersecurity agents.
title Co-RedTeam: Orchestrated Security Discovery and Exploitation with LLM Agents
topic Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02164