Survey Finds AI Tools Struggle Most With Business Logic Vulnerabilities

Summary

A survey found business logic vulnerabilities were the hardest for AI tools to identify, cited by 62.1% of respondents. A speaker said multi-step exploit chains may be more addressable through better prompting.

Key points

• In the survey discussed, 62.1% of respondents identified business logic vulnerabilities as the type AI tools struggle with most.
• Multi-step chained exploits ranked second at 41%, followed by race conditions at 27.6%.
• The speaker agreed business logic bugs are particularly difficult for AI to find and expected the gap to narrow as models improve.
• The speaker characterized difficulty finding multi-step exploit chains as a prompting skill issue and said guiding an AI agent through the steps can help it find them.