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Context: Coordination is a fundamental tenet of software engineering. Coordination is required also for identifying discovered and disclosed software vulnerabilities with Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Motivated by recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Jukka Ruohonen , Sampsa Rauti , Sami Hyrynsalmi , Ville Leppänen

Identifying the impact scope and scale is critical for software supply chain vulnerability assessment. However, existing studies face substantial limitations. First, prior studies either work at coarse package-level granularity, producing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Bonan Ruan , Zhiwei Lin , Jiahao Liu , Chuqi Zhang , Kaihang Ji , Zhenkai Liang

The use of learning-based techniques to achieve automated software vulnerability detection has been of longstanding interest within the software security domain. These data-driven solutions are enabled by large software vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Roland Croft , M. Ali Babar , Mehdi Kholoosi

Much of the current software depends on open-source components, which in turn have complex dependencies on other open-source libraries. Vulnerabilities in open source therefore have potentially huge impacts. The goal of this work is to get…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Tobias Dam , Sebastian Neumaier

In cybersecurity, vulnerability assessment has typically focused on identifying and measuring vulnerabilities within digital assets and technical infrastructures. However, there is growing recognition that this approach alone is inadequate…

When a new computer security vulnerability is publicly disclosed, only a textual description of it is available. Cybersecurity experts later provide an analysis of the severity of the vulnerability using the Common Vulnerability Scoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Mustafizur Shahid , Hervé Debar

The relentless process of tracking and remediating vulnerabilities is a top concern for cybersecurity professionals. The key challenge is trying to identify a remediation scheme specific to in-house, organizational objectives. Without a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Corren McCoy , Ross Gore , Michael L. Nelson , Michele C. Weigle

Identifying the software weaknesses exploited by attacks supports efforts to reduce developer introduction of vulnerabilities and to guide security code review efforts. A weakness is a bug or fault type that can be exploited through an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Peter Mell , Irena Bojanova , Carlos Galhardo

Current frameworks for evaluating security bug severity, such as the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), prioritize the ratio of exploitability to impact. This paper suggests that the above approach measures the "known knowns" but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shue Long Chan

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Triet H. M. Le , Huaming Chen , M. Ali Babar

Vulnerability discovery and exploits detection are two wide areas of study in software engineering. This preliminary work tries to combine existing methods with machine learning techniques to define a metric classification of vulnerable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Gabriele Modena

Understanding the severity of vulnerabilities within cloud services is particularly important for today service administrators.Although many systems, e.g., CVSS, have been built to evaluate and score the severity of vulnerabilities for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Hao Zhuang , Florian Pydde

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) system is a reference method for documenting publicly known information security weaknesses and exposures. This paper presents a study of the lifetime of CVEs in software projects and the risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Piotr Przymus , Mikołaj Fejzer , Jakub Narębski , Krzysztof Stencel

During software development, balancing security and non security issues is challenging. We focus on security awareness and approaches taken by non-security experts using software development issue trackers when considering security. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Léon McGregor , Manuel Maarek , Hans-Wolfgang Loidl

Software vulnerabilities can have serious consequences, which is why many techniques have been proposed to defend against them. Among these, vulnerability detection techniques are a major area of focus. However, there is a lack of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Yingzhou Bi , Jiangtao Huang , Penghui Liu , Lianmei Wang

These days, cyber-criminals target humans rather than machines since they try to accomplish their malicious intentions by exploiting the weaknesses of end users. Thus, human vulnerabilities pose a serious threat to the security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Dimitra Papatsaroucha , Yannis Nikoloudakis , Ioannis Kefaloukos , Evangelos Pallis , Evangelos K. Markakis

We present a novel idea on adequacy testing called ``{vulnerability coverage}.'' The introduced coverage measure examines the underlying software for the presence of certain classes of vulnerabilities often found in the National…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shuvalaxmi Dass , Akbar Siami Namin

Each year, thousands of software vulnerabilities are discovered and reported to the public. Unpatched known vulnerabilities are a significant security risk. It is imperative that software vendors quickly provide patches once vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Benjamin L. Bullough , Anna K. Yanchenko , Christopher L. Smith , Joseph R. Zipkin

The exponential growth of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) disclosures poses significant challenges for enterprise security management, necessitating automated and quantitative risk assessment methodologies. Existing vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wanru Shao

Software vulnerabilities in source code pose serious cybersecurity risks, prompting a shift from traditional detection methods (e.g., static analysis, rule-based matching) to AI-driven approaches. This study presents a systematic review of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samiha Shimmi , Hamed Okhravi , Mona Rahimi