Claude finds RCE in Vim and Emacs
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Shows an AI agent (Claude) discovering critical vulnerabilities, highlighting AI's emerging role in security tooling and analysis.
Summary
Anthropic's Claude autonomously found RCE 0-days in both Vim and Emacs by simply prompting it to find a bug when opening a file. Vim maintainers quickly patched the issue in version 9.2.0272, while Emacs maintainers declined, blaming git. This marks a shift where AI replicates early 2000s-style security hunting, now launching the 'MAD Bugs' initiative for more AI-discovered exploits.
Author
Calif