Oedipus: LLM-enchanced Reasoning CAPTCHA Solver

Oct 1, 2025ยท
Gelei Deng
Gelei Deng
,
Haoran Ou
,
Yi Liu
,
Jie Zhang
,
Tianwei Zhang
,
Yang Liu
ยท 1 min read
Abstract
CAPTCHAs have long served as a defense mechanism to distinguish humans from bots. However, the emergence of Large Language Models with advanced reasoning capabilities poses new challenges to CAPTCHA security. This work presents Oedipus, an LLM-enhanced framework for solving reasoning-based CAPTCHAs, demonstrating the vulnerability of current CAPTCHA systems to AI-powered attacks.
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Publication
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘25)

Oedipus demonstrates the vulnerability of reasoning-based CAPTCHAs to LLM-powered attacks, highlighting the need for more robust human verification mechanisms in the age of advanced AI.