What it is
V12 is Zellic’s agentic security platform. Zellic introduced V12 in September 2025 as an autonomous auditor combining AI, LLMs, and traditional static analysis. The current V12 homepage describes the product as agentic security that finds, rates, and reports vulnerabilities.
The initial public positioning focused on Solidity and Web3 audits, but the public record now includes Linux and PostgreSQL CVEs plus accepted no-CVE reports in Redis, Dolphin, wallet, intent, and zero-knowledge infrastructure.
What is verified
The current ledger counts seven V12 entries: Fragnesia (CVE-2026-46300), shared credit on PostgreSQL CVE-2026-14669, plaintext GridPlus pairing credentials in Rabby Wallet, a NEAR Intents storage-exhaustion and garbage-collection bypass, a twelve-report Miden Node campaign, a Redis use-after-free exploited to remote code execution, and a two-bug Dolphin guest-to-host escape chain.
For Fragnesia, independent corroboration comes from Linux and distribution-side records:
Ubuntu tracks the CVE as a high-priority local privilege escalation, Debian’s
tracker links the V12 PoC and the upstream patch, AlmaLinux released patched
kernels, and the netdev patch from William Bowling identifies the skbuff
shared-fragment marker root cause.
Why it matters
V12 adds another system to the public AI-assisted vulnerability-discovery record, and the target is not a toy project. A Linux kernel local-root finding in the Dirty Pipe / CopyFail / Dirty Frag page-cache family is exactly the kind of high-impact issue that changes patching pressure for distributors and operators.
The newer no-CVE entries are included because their public reports document maintainer acknowledgment, merged fixes, security releases, or a bug bounty. The AI-attribution detail still comes from V12, so its credits retain the self-reported label even where upstream sources independently confirm the bugs.
Sources
- V12 PoC and write-up: Fragnesia
- V12 homepage
- V12 documentation: Introducing V12
- Ubuntu: CVE-2026-46300
- Debian security tracker: CVE-2026-46300
- AlmaLinux: Fragnesia patches released
- netdev patch: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing
- V12 public proof-of-concept repository
- PostgreSQL: CVE-2026-14669
- Redis fix PR #15594
- Dolphin advisory: AX stack write
- Dolphin advisory: Zelda stack disclosure