OpenAI Codex Security Launches in Research Preview
OpenAI Blog·high signal
OpenAI launched Codex Security (formerly Aardvark), an AI application security agent that builds project-specific threat models, searches for vulnerabilities via agentic reasoning, validates findings in sandboxed environments, and proposes architecture-aligned fixes. During beta: scanned 1.2M commits in 30 days, found 792 critical and 10,561 high-severity issues. False positive rates dropped 50%+, over-reported severity dropped 90%+. Discovered 14 CVEs across OpenSSH, GnuTLS, Chromium, PHP, and