Claude Mythos AI Identified 10,000+ Software Vulnerabilities in One Month
Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI identified 10,000+ vulnerabilities in one month, including critical flaw in wolfSSL.
Anthropic's Project Glasswing initiative deployed Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased AI model, to identify security vulnerabilities across software systems. In one month, the AI and 50 partners discovered over 10,000 high/critical-severity flaws across major software, with 1,726 confirmed by independent researchers and an estimated 6,200 severe bugs ultimately identified. A critical certificate forgery vulnerability (CVE-2026-5194, CVSS 9.3) was discovered in wolfSSL, an open-source security library protecting five billion devices.
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- cve — CVE-2026-5194