THC 2026 - AI for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Opportunities and Challenges

Merve Sahin (SAP) 🎙️, Kendrick Gruenberg (SAP, TU Braunschweig) and Malte Wessels (TU Braunschweig) The rapid advancement of AI, and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), has opened new opportunities for software security. From vulnerability detection to automated repair, AI-driven techniques are increasingly explored to support the software vulnerability management lifecycle. This talk will provide an overview of the state of the art in this area and present our recent research on automated vulnerability repair, highlighting the difficulties in designing an evaluation benchmark and sharing insights into how AI-generated vulnerability fixes compare with those written by human developers.