一句话：通过 Reddit 实证分析，构建 LLM 原生 IDE 安全与隐私问题分类，发现根源多在系统设计而非底层 LLM。
论文关注 LLM 原生 IDE（LIDE）在开发任务中暴露的安全与隐私问题。作者从 29 个相关 subreddit 收集 110 万帖子，筛出 446 篇相关帖子并分析 6K 余条评论，覆盖 Cursor、Copilot、Codex 等主流 LIDE。采用定性与定量结合方法，构建了报告问题的分类体系。发现多数问题源自系统级设计选择，如用户数据访问、未受检查的自主操作，而非底层 LLM 本身。开发者常依赖沙箱、人工审查等外部防护，反映出对 LIDE 的普遍不信任。最后总结设计安全、隐私感知 LIDE 的经验教训。
LLM-native IDEs (Integrated Development Environments), aka LIDEs, are designed from the ground up to work with Large Language Models (LLMs). LIDEs have found remarkable success in Software Engineering (SE) tasks such as coding, debugging, and program comprehension. LIDEs are software systems, and, like any system, they can exhibit vulnerabilities. In this paper, we study the security and privacy issues that developers reported while using popular LIDEs in their development tasks. We collected 1.1M posts from 29 popular subreddits related to LIDEs. We identified 446 posts and analyzed over 6K comments to the posts that discussed security and privacy issues in almost all popular LIDEs, such as Cursor, Copilot, Codex, etc. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, we constructed a taxonomy of the reported security and privacy issues. Our results show that most issues in LIDEs stem from system-level design choices, rather than the underlying LLMs, such as user data access, unchecked autonomous actions, etc. To overcome these issues, developers frequently relied on external safeguards like code sandboxing and manual reviewing, highlighting prevalent mistrust among developers about LIDEs. We share lessons from our study to support future design of secure and privacy-aware LIDEs.
@inproceedings{abs-2607-26390,
title = {“Impossible to Hide Secret ...”: Uncovering Security and Privacy Issues in LLM-Native IDEs},
author = {Mostafijur Rahman Akhond and Md Afif Al Mamun and Gias Uddin and Song Wang},
booktitle = {ASE},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1145/3832783.3837429}
}