AI Slop and Hallucinations in Vulnerability Assessment: A Survey on Reasoning Failures and Trustworthy Mitigation

arXiv:2608.25667 · cs.CR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Terminology

• Verification — 38× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 20× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 13× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Analyzer — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Deductive Coverage Score — 4× in this paper
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Perplexity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Security and Privacy — 3× in this paper
• AI Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUC — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Formal Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verifiability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adversarial Attacks — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Hierarchical Classification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Lexical Diversity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model Drift — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Theoretical Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Purple Llama CyberSecEval: A Secure Coding Benchmark for Language Models
• LLM4Vuln: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Decoupling and Enhancing LLMs' Vulnerability Reasoning
• Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models

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