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A Survey on Data-driven Software Vulnerability Assessment and Prioritization

Software Engineering 2023-01-09 v4 Artificial Intelligence Cryptography and Security Machine Learning

Abstract

Software Vulnerabilities (SVs) are increasing in complexity and scale, posing great security risks to many software systems. Given the limited resources in practice, SV assessment and prioritization help practitioners devise optimal SV mitigation plans based on various SV characteristics. The surges in SV data sources and data-driven techniques such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning have taken SV assessment and prioritization to the next level. Our survey provides a taxonomy of the past research efforts and highlights the best practices for data-driven SV assessment and prioritization. We also discuss the current limitations and propose potential solutions to address such issues.

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@article{arxiv.2107.08364,
  title  = {A Survey on Data-driven Software Vulnerability Assessment and Prioritization},
  author = {Triet H. M. Le and Huaming Chen and M. Ali Babar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08364},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted for publication in the ACM Computing Surveys journal (CSUR), 2022

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