Claude Finds 22 Vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of Them High-Severity

Anthropic ran Claude against 6,000 C++ files in Firefox's codebase and uncovered 22 security vulnerabilities, demonstrating that AI-powered code auditing is no longer theoretical.

Anthropic has published results from running Claude as an automated security auditor against Mozilla Firefox's C++ codebase — and the results are remarkable. As @ihtesham2005 reported, Claude scanned approximately 6,000 C++ files and identified 22 security vulnerabilities, 14 of which were classified as high-severity. In some cases, the model reportedly generated working proof-of-concept exploits.

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