OpenAI's autonomous pipeline finds and patches 948 Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs
OpenAI · x · 2026-11-05
OpenAI's security researchers built an autonomous pipeline for vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching. In a single run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, at a total API cost of $1.2 million.
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