# Cogent's VR-1.1 repairs 57.9% of LiveCVEBench tasks in company run

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/cogent-vr-1-1-livecvebench-vulnerability-repair>
> Published: 2026-11-03 15:46:08+00:00

# Cogent's VR-1.1 repairs 57.9% of LiveCVEBench tasks in company run

**Vineet Edupuganti and Geng Sng's Cogent Security reports that VR-1.1 repaired 57.9% of 190 LiveCVEBench tasks, 12.6 percentage points ahead of Claude Code and Codex in its own run.**

        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
        · Published 

Primary source: [PR Newswire Business Technology](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cogent-unveils-vr-1-1--its-latest-frontier-cyber-model-which-tops-livecvebench-for-vulnerability-repair-302927966.html)

## Why it matters

AI-driven disclosure is producing vulnerabilities faster than engineers can safely patch them, and Cogent's founders are betting the scarce step is a trustworthy fix.

Vineet Edupuganti and Geng Sng built Cogent Security around a bottleneck they watched at Abnormal Security: finding vulnerabilities was getting faster, and fixing them was not. On November 3rd, 2026, Cogent released VR-1.1, a version of its security reasoning model tuned for repair, and reported in [Cogent's LiveCVEBench research post](https://www.cogent.com/blog/vr-1.1-on-livecvebench-remediating-real-vulnerabilities?ref=runtimewire) that it fixed 57.9% of 190 tasks, compared with 45.3% for both Claude Code and Codex.…

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