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Advancing our understanding of software vulnerabilities, automating their identification, the analysis of their impact, and ultimately their mitigation is necessary to enable the development of software that is more secure. While operating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Serena E. Ponta , Henrik Plate , Antonino Sabetta , Michele Bezzi , Cédric Dangremont

Software plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and therefore the quality and security of software systems have become increasingly important. However, vulnerabilities in software still pose a significant threat, as they can have serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Chaozheng Wang , Zongjie Li , Yun Peng , Shuzheng Gao , Sirong Chen , Shuai Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

We propose and release a new vulnerable source code dataset. We curate the dataset by crawling security issue websites, extracting vulnerability-fixing commits and source codes from the corresponding projects. Our new dataset contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yizheng Chen , Zhoujie Ding , Lamya Alowain , Xinyun Chen , David Wagner

In this paper, we analyze the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) dictionary and the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) feeds. These repositories are widely used in Vulnerability Management Systems (VMSs) to check for known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Luis Alberto Benthin Sanguino , Rafael Uetz

Preventing vulnerability exploits is a critical software maintenance task, and software engineers often rely on Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVEs) reports for information about vulnerable systems and libraries. These reports include…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Danielle Gonzalez , Holly Hastings , Mehdi Mirakhorli

Software vulnerabilities pose critical security and risk concerns for many software systems. Many techniques have been proposed to effectively assess and prioritize these vulnerabilities before they cause serious consequences. To evaluate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Bonan Ruan , Jiahao Liu , Weibo Zhao , Zhenkai Liang

Software is prone to bugs and failures. Security bugs are those that expose or share privileged information and access in violation of the software's requirements. Given the seriousness of security bugs, there are centralized mechanisms for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Daito Nakano , Mingyang Yin , Ryosuke Sato , Abram Hindle , Yasutaka Kamei , Naoyasu Ubayashi

Due to the risks associated with vulnerabilities in smart contracts, their security has gained significant attention in recent years. However, there is a lack of open datasets on smart contract vulnerabilities and their fixes that allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Majd Soud , Ilham Qasse , Grischa Liebel , Mohammad Hamdaqa

High-quality datasets of real-world vulnerabilities and their corresponding verifiable exploits are crucial resources in software security research. Yet such resources remain scarce, as their creation demands intensive manual effort and…

Open source software vulnerabilities pose significant security risks to downstream applications. While vulnerability databases provide valuable information for mitigation, many security patches are released silently in new commits of OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yiran Cheng , Ting Zhang , Lwin Khin Shar , Zhe Lang , David Lo , Shichao Lv , Dongliang Fang , Zhiqiang Shi , Limin Sun

The proliferation of software vulnerabilities poses a significant challenge for security databases and analysts tasked with their timely identification, classification, and remediation. With the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Daniel Alfasi , Tal Shapira , Anat Bremler Barr

Software vulnerabilities are flaws in computer software systems that pose significant threats to the integrity, security, and reliability of modern software and its application data. These vulnerabilities can lead to substantial economic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Penghui Liu , Yingzhou Bi , Jiangtao Huang , Xinxin Jiang , Lianmei Wang

We present a comprehensive dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits (VFCs) to advance research in Java vulnerability analysis. Our dataset, derived from thousands of open-source Java projects on GitHub, comprises two variants: JavaVFC…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Tan Bui , Yan Naing Tun , Yiran Cheng , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ting Zhang , Hong Jin Kang

Software vulnerabilities pose serious risks to modern software ecosystems. While the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is the authoritative source for cataloging these vulnerabilities, it often lacks explicit links to the corresponding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Huu Hung Nguyen , Anh Tuan Nguyen , Thanh Le-Cong , Yikun Li , Han Wei Ang , Yide Yin , Frank Liauw , Shar Lwin Khin , Ouh Eng Lieh , Ting Zhang , David Lo

Open-source software (OSS) vulnerabilities are increasingly prevalent, emphasizing the importance of security patches. However, in widely used security platforms like NVD, a substantial number of CVE records still lack trace links to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Kaixuan Li , Jian Zhang , Sen Chen , Han Liu , Yang Liu , Yixiang Chen

We constructed a newly large-scale and comprehensive C/C++ vulnerability dataset named MegaVul by crawling the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database and CVE-related open-source projects. Specifically, we collected all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chao Ni , Liyu Shen , Xiaohu Yang , Yan Zhu , Shaohua Wang

Security patches in open-source software, providing security fixes to identified vulnerabilities, are crucial in protecting against cyberattacks. Despite the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) publishes identified vulnerabilities, a vast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yaqin Zhou , Jing Kai Siow , Chenyu Wang , Shangqing Liu , Yang Liu

In recent years, code security has become increasingly important, especially with the rise of interconnected technologies. Detecting vulnerabilities early in the software development process has demonstrated numerous benefits. Consequently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 José Gonçalves , Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

The increasing reliance of software projects on third-party libraries has raised concerns about the security of these libraries due to hidden vulnerabilities. Managing these vulnerabilities is challenging due to the time gap between fixes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Son Nguyen , Thanh Trong Vu , Hieu Dinh Vo

As the number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) continues to grow exponentially, security teams face increasingly difficult decisions about prioritization. Current approaches using Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Naoyuki Shimizu , Masaki Hashimoto
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