---
id: 2406
title: "How We Fared in the Cyber Grand Challenge"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2015/07/15/how-we-fared-in-the-cyber-grand-challenge/"
published_at: "2015-07-15T11:00:09Z"
tags: ["automation", "vulnerability-discovery", "patching", "competition", "darpa", "automated-patching", "automated-exploitation", "mcsema", "cyber-grand-challenge", "crs", "cgc"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2406"
lang: en
---

# How We Fared in the Cyber Grand Challenge

## Summary

Trail of Bits' Cyber Reasoning System found bugs in 65 of 131 CGC qualifier programs and rewrote 94, but a fatal patching-performance flaw dropped it to 9th place, missing the finals cutoff.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2015-07-15T11:00:09Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2015/07/15/how-we-fared-in-the-cyber-grand-challenge/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2406