System Over Model, Tested: Reproducing Mythos’s FreeBSD Find on Local Open-Weight Models (opens in new tab)

Mythos found a 17-year-old FreeBSD RCE; AISLE reproduced it with gpt-5.4-nano via their nano-analyzer pipeline. I ran the pipeline on two local open-weight models, gpt-oss-20b and gemma-4-31b-it. The misses recovered on re-run. The real problem was the false-positive rate, and one extra system stage cut it from 30 to 5 with the CVE still standing.

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