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Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) introduce new security risks, but there are few
comprehensive evaluation suites to measure and reduce these risks. We present
BenchmarkName, a novel benchmark to quantify LLM security risks and
capabilities. We introduce two new areas for testing: prompt injection and code
interpreter abuse. We evaluated multiple state-of-the-art (SOTA) LLMs,
including GPT-4, Mistral, Meta Llama 3 70B-Instruct, and Code Llama. Our
results show that conditioning away risk of attack remains an unsolved problem;
for example, all tested models showed between 26% and 41% successful prompt
injection tests. We further introduce the safety-utility tradeoff: conditioning
an LLM to reject unsafe prompts can cause the LLM to falsely reject answering
benign prompts, which lowers utility. We propose quantifying this tradeoff
using False Refusal Rate (FRR). As an illustration, we introduce a novel test
set to quantify FRR for cyberattack helpfulness risk. We find many LLMs able to
successfully comply with "borderline" benign requests while still rejecting
most unsafe requests. Finally, we quantify the utility of LLMs for automating a
core cybersecurity task, that of exploiting software vulnerabilities. This is
important because the offensive capabilities of LLMs are of intense interest;
we quantify this by creating novel test sets for four representative problems.
We find that models with coding capabilities perform better than those without,
but that further work is needed for LLMs to become proficient at exploit
generation. Our code is open source and can be used to evaluate other LLMs.