--- title: On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation... description: An experiment demonstrated that LLM-based agents (Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2) successfully generated over 40 distinct exploits for a zero-day QuickJS vulnerability... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rym8acooq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation with LLMs | daily.dev og:description: An experiment demonstrated that LLM-based agents (Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2) successfully generated over 40 distinct exploits for a zero-day QuickJS vulnerability... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rym8acooq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rYm8acOoQ.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation with LLMs **[Cyber Devs](https://daily.dev/sources/cyberdevelopers)** · [@illusivebyte](https://daily.dev/illusivebyte) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An experiment demonstrated that LLM-based agents (Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2) successfully generated over 40 distinct exploits for a zero-day QuickJS vulnerability across various scenarios with modern mitigations. The results suggest offensive cybersecurity is approaching industrialization, where exploit development capability will be limited by token throughput rather than human expertise. The hardest challenge involved bypassing multiple protections (ASLR, CFI, shadow-stack, seccomp) and was solved by GPT-5.2 in 3 hours for ~$50. This indicates vulnerability discovery and exploit development can now trade tokens for results, though post-access tasks like lateral movement may still require human involvement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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