Pith Number

pith:WJ2U2UEB

pith:2026:WJ2U2UEBVWNOQZPG3RSCTK6IBR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VATS: Exploiting Implicit Authority in Error-Path Injection via Systematic Mutation

Harshil Patel, Kunal Pai

arxiv:2606.07992 v1 · 2026-06-06 · cs.AI · cs.CR · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WJ2U2UEBVWNOQZPG3RSCTK6IBR}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-09T01:04:57.775912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2754d5081ad9ae865e6dc6429abc80c7118ed812446f1736dfc2b637f487efa

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07992 · arxiv_version: 2606.07992v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07992 · pith_short_12: WJ2U2UEBVWNO · pith_short_16: WJ2U2UEBVWNOQZPG · pith_short_8: WJ2U2UEB

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WJ2U2UEBVWNOQZPG3RSCTK6IBR \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b2754d5081ad9ae865e6dc6429abc80c7118ed812446f1736dfc2b637f487efa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e415da350d2a92561f8dcd8ce8d15e451f27ff71d2ab9b99e6eaaf37228490ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-06T06:07:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35add7ab4ba5eb734e8b34b223baac5df430a676865c9c63b7d9ee4645adb37e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07992",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}