OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Cyber for Enhanced Vulnerability Discovery
Original title: OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Cyber After AI Helps Find 81 Firefox Flaws, 948 Linux Exploits
OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber discovers 81 Firefox vulnerabilities and 948 Linux exploits
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Cyber, an AI model for cybersecurity research. It finds and fixes vulnerabilities better than previous models. The model discovered 81 high-severity Firefox flaws and 948 Linux privilege escalation exploits. It is now available via API to select customers.
Unconfirmed: Misalignment incidents with GPT-6 Astra disclosed
- Scores 48.5% on ExploitGym benchmark
- Discovered 948 local privilege escalation exploits in Linux
- Identified critical Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497)
- Stays within bounds 99.93% of the time without prompts
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-111497 | Buffer overflow in Google Brotli decoder 1.0.3–1.2.0 | 9.2 | 83% | KEVPoC ×25 | KEV |
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OpenAI on Thursday unveiled GPT‑6 Cyber, which it described as a major step forward in security research that brings together stronger cybersecurity capabilities with a step-change improvement in model alignment. The new model is "more capable at finding and fixing vulnerabilities, and far more reliable staying within the boundaries researchers set," OpenAI said. It has classified the model as
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