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Zuyao Xu
Zuyao Xu
Nankai UniversityCybersecurity · Master’s student

Zuyao Xu许祖耀

Advisor Xiang LiTianjin, China

Biography I am Zuyao Xu, a master’s student in Cybersecurity at Nankai University, advised by Xiang Li. My research focuses on DNS and Internet infrastructure security, Internet measurement, and LLM and agent security.

IETF & Protocol Work

IETF Internet-Draft

Agent Transfer Protocol

Co-author ·

An individual Internet-Draft for Agent Transfer Protocol (ATP): DNS-based agent discovery, authentication, and messaging.

IETF 126 Hackathon

Demo of Agent Transfer Protocol

Vienna, Austria ·

Participated in IETF 126 Hackathon as a member of the ATP demonstration team.

Vulnerabilities & artifacts

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 · Medium

CVE-2026-19668

Resource exhaustion through DNSSEC record processing in BIND 9. Co-reported with Xiang Li and acknowledged by ISC.

ISC advisory
CVSS 3.1 · 7.5

CVE-2025-8677

Resource exhaustion via malformed DNSKEY handling in BIND 9. Acknowledged by ISC alongside Xiang Li.

ISC advisory
ACSAC 2025 · 2nd Place

XMap

Fast Internet-wide IPv4 and IPv6 Network Scanner. Cybersecurity Artifacts Impact Award, second place.

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High severity

CNNVD-2025-03948296

Co-reporter of a high-severity vulnerability, November 2025.

Leadership & service

President2025 — 2026

Nankai Information Security Association

Association coordination, technical exchange, and competition practice.

Volunteer2025.11

Cryptography conferences & competitions

Chinese cryptography annual conference: 8 hours; national cryptography competition finals: 3 hours.