OpenAI reveals the cost of AI-driven discovery of local privilege escalation vulnerabilities: approximately $1,279 per flaw.

OpenAI shares data from a single vulnerability discovery run: total API call costs reached $1,213,430, averaging about $1,279 per local privilege escalation flaw. Converted to historical Pwn2Own and TyphoonPWN bounty standards, the assumed value of these vulnerabilities ranges from $18.9M to $66.3M. OpenAI concludes that defenders should proactively use AI to analyze software, making network attack costs prohibitively high.