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ARACNE: An LLM-Based Autonomous Shell Pentesting Agent

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arxiv 2502.18528 v1 pith:IMF7FDI4 submitted 2025-02-24 cs.CR cs.AIcs.RO

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We introduce ARACNE, a fully autonomous LLM-based pentesting agent tailored for SSH services that can execute commands on real Linux shell systems. Introduces a new agent architecture with multi-LLM model support. Experiments show that ARACNE can reach a 60\% success rate against the autonomous defender ShelLM and a 57.58\% success rate against the Over The Wire Bandit CTF challenges, improving over the state-of-the-art. When winning, the average number of actions taken by the agent to accomplish the goals was less than 5. The results show that the use of multi-LLM is a promising approach to increase accuracy in the actions.

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    cs.CR 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

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    cs.SE 2026-07 accept novelty 5.5 of 10

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