At HackTheBay 2025, ObjectSecurity will present “Beyond SAST: Advancing Vulnerability Detection with Symbolic Execution,” a session focused on overcoming the limitations of traditional Static Application Security Testing (SAST). While SAST plays a key role in securing software, it often struggles with dynamic inputs, runtime behavior, and complex control flows, leading to missed vulnerabilities and false positives. This presentation introduces symbolic execution as a powerful way to extend the reach of static analysis and detect vulnerabilities that would otherwise go unnoticed. By simulating all feasible execution paths and analyzing inputs symbolically, symbolic execution can uncover critical issues such as memory safety violations. We’ll show how this approach can enhance automation, increase accuracy, and reduce noise in security analysis. We’ll also discuss the practical challenges of symbolic execution like path explosion and share strategies to mitigate them. This session offers a practical look at how symbolic execution can push vulnerability detection beyond today’s limitations.