Thinking More, Harnessing Better: State Machine Guided Harness Automatic Generation with Project Digestion and Workflow Decomposition

July 08, 2026 ยท Grace Period ยท ๐Ÿ› CCS 2026

โณ Grace Period
This paper is less than 90 days old. We give authors time to release their code before passing judgment.
Authors Xing Zhang, Zikang Huang, Gang Yang, CongChong Wang, Lu Liu, Bin Yin, Mingyi Wang, Ziquan Zhao, Min Li, Zhenyu Chen, Bo Wu, Lingyun Ying arXiv ID 2607.07007 Category cs.CR: Cryptography & Security Cross-listed cs.SE Citations 0 Venue CCS 2026
Abstract
High-quality fuzz harnesses are essential for effective gray-box fuzzing. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promise for automating this task, existing one-turn generation methods suffer from hallucinations and inadequate coverage due to coarse-grained function targeting and misaligned generation workflows. We present SynapseFlow, an automatic harness generator that addresses these limitations through two key innovations: dataflow-aware function aggregation and a staged, rollback-enabled generation workflow decomposition. SynapseFlow first analyzes source code to construct Structural Flow Graphs and extract coherent Function Triplets. It then synthesizes harnesses via a decomposed four-stage process governed by a staged rollback algorithm to ensure correctness. We evaluated SynapseFlow on 25 real-world open-source software projects. The experimental results indicate that SynapseFlow outperforms state-of-the-art tools (OSS-Fuzz-Gen, CKGFuzzer, PromeFuzz), achieving 3.07$\times$, 1.71$\times$, and 4.26$\times$ higher branch coverage, and 1.77$\times$, 1.51$\times$, and 1.36$\times$ higher bug detection rates, respectively. Most importantly, SynapseFlow discovered 7 previously unreported bugs (5 assigned CVEs), demonstrating its practical effectiveness in real-world bug discovery.
Community shame:
Not yet rated
Community Contributions

Found the code? Know the venue? Think something is wrong? Let us know!

๐Ÿ“œ Similar Papers

In the same crypt โ€” Cryptography & Security