Wiz Used AI Reverse Engineering to Uncover High-Severity GitHub Vulnerability

Wiz researchers used an AI-powered reverse-engineering tool to identify a high-severity vulnerability in GitHub that would have been too expensive and time-consuming to find through traditional binary analysis alone. The AI tooling allowed researchers to pinpoint the flaw in a fraction of the time conventional methods would require. GitHub has patched the vulnerability.

The disclosure demonstrates how AI is shifting the economics of vulnerability research — lowering the barrier for finding bugs in complex, compiled codebases. Security teams should expect this capability to proliferate among both defensive researchers and threat actors. Offensive security programs that don’t incorporate AI-assisted analysis are increasingly at a disadvantage compared to those that do.