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Software vulnerabilities, caused by unintentional flaws in source codes, are the main root cause of cyberattacks. Source code static analysis has been used extensively to detect the unintentional defects, i.e. vulnerabilities, introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Arash Mahyari

TLS uses X.509 certificates for server authentication. A X.509 certificate is a complex document and various innocent errors may occur while creating/ using it. Also, many certificates belong to malicious websites and should be rejected by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Sankalp Bagaria , R. Balaji , B. S. Bindhumadhava

Recent secure code generation methods, using vulnerability-aware fine-tuning, prefix-tuning, and prompt optimization, claim to prevent LLMs from producing insecure code. However, their robustness under adversarial conditions remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Melissa Tessa , Iyiola E. Olatunji , Aicha War , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Critical embedded systems (CES) have become ubiquitous in whether medical, automotive, or industrial. Software failures in such systems are potentially disastrous and could lead to serious consequences not only financially but also…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Hafsa Cheddadi , Saad Motahhir , Abdelaziz El Ghzizal

The increasing complexity and scale of modern digital environments have exposed significant gaps in traditional cybersecurity penetration testing methods, which are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and unable to rapidly adapt to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Ibrahim Alshehri , Adnan Alshehri , Abdulrahman Almalki , Majed Bamardouf , Alaqsa Akbar

With web applications becoming a preferred method of presenting graphical user interfaces to users, software vulnerabilities affecting web applications are becoming more and more prevalent and devastating. Some of these vulnerabilities,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Michael Flanders

The current cybersecurity landscape is increasingly complex, with traditional Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools struggling to capture complex and emerging vulnerabilities due to their reliance on rule-based matching.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Mete Keltek , Rong Hu , Mohammadreza Fani Sani , Ziyue Li

Timing attacks are a challenge for current intrusion detection solutions. Timing attacks are dangerous for web applications because they may leak information about side channel vulnerabilities. This paper presents a massive-multi-sensor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Christoph Pohl , Hans-Joachim Hof

Spring security is tremendously popular among practitioners for its ease of use to secure enterprise applications. In this paper, we study the application framework misconfiguration vulnerabilities in the light of Spring security, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Mazharul Islam , Sazzadur Rahaman , Na Meng , Behnaz Hassanshahi , Padmanabhan Krishnan , Danfeng , Yao

In enterprise data pipelines, data insertions occur periodically and may impact downstream services if data quality issues are not addressed. Typically, such problems can be investigated and fixed by on-call engineers, but locating the…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Xinwei Lin , Jing Zhao , Peng Di , Chuan Xiao , Rui Mao , Yan Ji , Makoto Onizuka , Zishuo Ding , Weiyi Shang , Jianbin Qin

This study evaluates the security of web application code generated by Large Language Models, analyzing 2,500 GPT-4 generated PHP websites. These were deployed in Docker containers and tested for vulnerabilities using a hybrid approach of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Rebeka Tóth , Tamas Bisztray , László Erdodi

We present a new type of attack in which source code is maliciously encoded so that it appears different to a compiler and to the human eye. This attack exploits subtleties in text-encoding standards such as Unicode to produce source code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Nicholas Boucher , Ross Anderson

In Rust, unsafe code is the sole source of potential undefined behaviors. To avoid misuse, Rust developers should clarify the safety properties for each unsafe API. However, the community currently lacks a key standard for safety…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zihao Rao , Jiping Zhou , Hongliang Tian , Xin Wang , Hui Xu

Software needs to be secure, in particular, when deployed to critical infrastructures. Secure coding guidelines capture practices in industrial software engineering to ensure the security of code. This study aims to assess the level of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Tiago Espinha Gasiba , Ulrike Lechner , Maria Pinto-Albuquerque , Daniel Mendez Fernandez

Identifying vulnerable code is a precautionary measure to counter software security breaches. Tedious expert effort has been spent to build static analyzers, yet insecure patterns are barely fully enumerated. This work explores a deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yufan Zhuang , Sahil Suneja , Veronika Thost , Giacomo Domeniconi , Alessandro Morari , Jim Laredo

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matthew Kelly , Christoph Treude , Alex Murray

Security attacks are growing in an exponential manner and their impact on existing systems is seriously high and can lead to dangerous consequences. However, in order to reduce the effect of these attacks, penetration tests are highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jean-Paul A. Yaacoub , Hassan N. Noura , Ola Salman , Ali Chehab

Techniques for verifying or invalidating the security of computer systems have come a long way in recent years. Extremely sophisticated tools are available to specify and formally verify the behavior of a system and, at the same time,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Matteo Busi , Riccardo Focardi , Flaminia Luccio

Self-supervised learning (SSL), a paradigm harnessing unlabeled datasets to train robust encoders, has recently witnessed substantial success. These encoders serve as pivotal feature extractors for downstream tasks, demanding significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xiaobei Li , Changchun Yin , Liyue Zhu , Xiaogang Xu , Liming Fang , Run Wang , Chenhao Lin

The growth in the adoption of the WebAssembly (WASM) standard has given rise to a rapidly increasing landscape of binary applications that are natively ported to the environment of websites. The flexibility of WASM has made it the preferred…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Lorenzo Corrias , Lorenzo Pisu , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Giacinto