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LogicEval: A Systematic Framework for Evaluating Automated Repair Techniques for Logical Vulnerabilities in Real-World Software

Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Kai Tu, Yilu Dong, Tianwei Wu, Ali Ranjbar, Tianchang Yang, Najrin Sultana, Shagufta Mehnaz, Syed Rafiul Hussain

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Published 2026-04-14 · First seen 2026-04-15

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Logical vulnerabilities in software stem from flaws in program logic rather than memory safety, which can lead to critical security failures. Although existing automated program repair techniques primarily focus on repairing memory corruption vulnerabilities, they struggle with logical vulnerabilities because of their limited semantic understanding of the vulnerable code and its expected behavior. On the other hand, recent successes of large language models (LLMs) in understanding and repairing code are promising. However, no framework currently exists to analyze the capabilities and limitations of such techniques for logical vulnerabilities. This paper aims to systematically evaluate both traditional and LLM-based repair approaches for addressing real-world logical vulnerabilities. To facilitate our assessment, we created the first ever dataset, LogicDS, of 86 logical vulnerabilities with assigned CVEs reflecting tangible security impact. We also developed a systematic framework, LogicEval, to evaluate patches for logical vulnerabilities. Evaluations suggest that compilation and testing failures are primarily driven by prompt sensitivity, loss of code context, and difficulty in patch localization.

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@article{rashid2026logiceval,
  title = {LogicEval: A Systematic Framework for Evaluating Automated Repair Techniques for Logical Vulnerabilities in Real-World Software},
  author = {Syed Md Mukit Rashid and Abdullah Al Ishtiaq and Kai Tu and Yilu Dong and Tianwei Wu and Ali Ranjbar and Tianchang Yang and Najrin Sultana and Shagufta Mehnaz and Syed Rafiul Hussain},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Logical vulnerabilities in software stem from flaws in program logic rather than memory safety, which can lead to critical security failures. Although existing automated program repair techniques primarily focus on repairing memory corruption vulnerabilities, they struggle with logical vulnerabilities because of their limited semantic understanding of the vulnerable code and its expected behavior. On the other hand, recent successes of large language models (LLMs) in understanding and repairing },
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12994},
  keywords = {cs.CR, cs.AI},
  eprint = {2604.12994},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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