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When working at exascale, the various constraints imposed by the extreme scale of the system bring new challenges for application users and software/middleware developers. In that context, and to provide best performance, resiliency and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Jerome Soumagne , Philip H. Carns , Dries Kimpe , Quincey Koziol , Robert B. Ross

We present Harvey, an industrial greybox fuzzer for smart contracts, which are programs managing accounts on a blockchain. Greybox fuzzing is a lightweight test-generation approach that effectively detects bugs and security vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

Network protocols are the foundation of modern communication, yet their implementations often contain semantic vulnerabilities stemming from inadequate understanding of specification semantics. Existing gray-box and black-box testing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yanbang Sun , Quan Luo , Yuelin Wang , Qian Chen , Benjin Liu , Ruiqi Chen , Qing Huang , Xiaohong Li , Junjie Wang

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting vulnerabilities in smart contracts, which generates transaction sequences to explore the execution paths of smart contracts. However, existing fuzzers are falling short in detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jie Chen , Liangmin Wang

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly rely on APIs to operate complex web applications, but rapid evolution often leads to incomplete or inconsistent API documentation. Existing work falls into two categories: (1) static,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yanjing Yang , Chenxing Zhong , Ke Han , Zeru Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Xin Zhou , He Zhang , Bohan Liu

This work-in-progress report presents both the design and partial evaluation of distributed execution indexing, a technique for microservice applications that precisely identifies dynamic instances of inter-service remote procedure calls…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Christopher S. Meiklejohn , Rohan Padhye , Heather Miller

Industrial Control Protocols (ICPs) are critical to the reliability and stability of industrial infrastructure, yet their security is fundamentally compromised by a specification-blindness bottleneck. Modern fuzzers, constrained by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiaying Meng , Xuewei Feng , Qi Li , Min Liu , Ke Xu

Testing ultra-large microservices-based FinTech systems presents significant challenges, including restricted access to production environments, complex dependencies, and stringent security constraints. We propose SandBoxFuzz, a scalable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiazhao Yu , Yanlun Tu , Zhanlei Zhang , Tiehua Zhang , Cheng Xu , Weigang Wu , Hong Jin Kang , Xi Zheng

Programmable Logic Controllers are used for smart homes, in production processes or to control critical infrastructures. Modern industrial devices in the control level are often communicating over proprietary protocols on top of TCP/IP with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Matthias Niedermaier , Florian Fischer , Alexander von Bodisco

RESTful APIs are arguably the most popular endpoints for accessing Web services. Blackbox testing is one of the emerging techniques for ensuring the reliability of RESTful APIs. The major challenge in testing RESTful APIs is the need for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yi Liu , Yuekang Li , Gelei Deng , Yang Liu , Ruiyuan Wan , Runchao Wu , Dandan Ji , Shiheng Xu , Minli Bao

Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) applications require rigorous testing to ensure their dependability. Such applications are typically integrated with various third-party healthcare applications and medical devices through REST APIs. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Hassan Sartaj , Shaukat Ali , Tao Yue , Kjetil Moberg

Over 70% of security vulnerabilities in critical software systems today result from memory safety violations. To address this challenge, fuzzing and static analysis are widely used automated methods to discover such vulnerabilities. Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Keno Hassler , Philipp Görz , Stephan Lipp

Compiler correctness is crucial, as miscompilation can falsify program behaviors, leading to serious consequences. Fuzzing has been studied to uncover compiler defects. However, compiler fuzzing remains challenging: Existing arts focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Chenyuan Yang , Yinlin Deng , Runyu Lu , Jiayi Yao , Jiawei Liu , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand , Lingming Zhang

We describe and evaluate a novel white-box fuzzer for C programs named FuSeBMC, which combines fuzzing and symbolic execution, and applies Bounded Model Checking (BMC) to find security vulnerabilities in C programs. FuSeBMC explores and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Rafael S. Menezes , Mikhail R. Gadelha , Lucas C. Cordeiro

There are around 5.3 billion Internet users, amounting to 65.7% of the global population, and web technology is the backbone of the services delivered via the Internet. To ensure web applications are free from security-related bugs, web…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 I Putu Arya Dharmaadi , Elias Athanasopoulos , Fatih Turkmen

Blockchain clients are fundamental software for running blockchain nodes. They provide users with various RPC (Remote Procedure Call) interfaces to interact with the blockchain. These RPC methods are expected to follow the same…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhijie Zhong , Yuhong Nan , Mingxi Ye , Qing Xue , Jiashui Wang , Xinlei Ying , Long Liu , Zibin Zheng

Context: Most approaches to automated white-box testing consider the client side and the server side of a web application in isolation from each other. Such testers lack a whole-program perspective on the web application under test.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Maarten Vandercammen , Laurent Christophe , Dario Di Nucci , Wolfgang De Meuter , Coen De Roover

Many software applications rely on concurrent and distributed (micro)services that interact via message-passing and various forms of remote procedure calls (RPC). As these systems organically evolve and grow in scale and complexity, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Radosław Jan Rowicki , Adrian Francalanza , Alceste Scalas

Industry 4.0 offers many possibilities for creating highly efficient and flexible manufacturing. To create such advantages, highly automated and thus digitized processes and systems are required. Here, most technologies known from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Michael Gundall , Calvin Glas , Hans D. Schotten

APIs often transmit far more data to client applications than they need, and in the context of web applications, often do so over public channels. This issue, termed Excessive Data Exposure (EDE), was OWASP's third most significant API…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Lianglu Pan , Shaanan Cohney , Toby Murray , Van-Thuan Pham