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Software vulnerabilities are a major cyber threat and it is important to detect them. One important approach to detecting vulnerabilities is to use deep learning while treating a program function as a whole, known as function-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhen Li , Ning Wang , Deqing Zou , Yating Li , Ruqian Zhang , Shouhuai Xu , Chao Zhang , Hai Jin

One of the most pressing threats to computing systems is software vulnerabilities, which can compromise both hardware and software components. Existing methods for vulnerability detection remain suboptimal. Traditional techniques are both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jin Wang , Zishan Huang , Hengli Liu , Nianyi Yang , Yinhao Xiao

The identification of vulnerabilities is an important element in the software development life cycle to ensure the security of software. While vulnerability identification based on the source code is a well studied field, the identification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Andreas Schaad , Dominik Binder

Automated detection of software vulnerabilities is a fundamental problem in software security. Existing program analysis techniques either suffer from high false positives or false negatives. Recent progress in Deep Learning (DL) has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Saikat Chakraborty , Rahul Krishna , Yangruibo Ding , Baishakhi Ray

Software security vulnerabilities allow attackers to perform malicious activities to disrupt software operations. Recent Transformer-based language models have significantly advanced vulnerability detection, surpassing the capabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Haoye Tian , He Ye , Ruben Martins , Claire Le Goues

Software vulnerability detection is crucial for high-quality software development. Recently, some studies utilizing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn the graph representation of code in vulnerability detection tasks have achieved…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xin Peng , Shangwen Wang , Yihao Qin , Bo Lin , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao

Vulnerability detection is an important issue in software security. Although various data-driven vulnerability detection methods have been proposed, the task remains challenging since the diversity and complexity of real-world vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Weining Zheng , Yuan Jiang , Xiaohong Su

Software vulnerabilities continue to pose significant threats to modern information systems, requiring a timely and accurate risk assessment. Public repositories, such as the National Vulnerability Database and CVE details, are regularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Luat Do , Jiao Yin , Jinli Cao , Hua Wang

Weaknesses in computer systems such as faults, bugs and errors in the architecture, design or implementation of software provide vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to compromise the security of a system. Common Weakness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Siddhartha Shankar Das , Edoardo Serra , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Alex Pothen , Ehab Al-Shaer

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 vulnerabilities present a persistent security challenge, with over 25,000 new vulnerabilities reported in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database in 2024 alone. While deep learning based approaches show promise for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Ahmed Lekssays , Hamza Mouhcine , Khang Tran , Ting Yu , Issa Khalil

Detecting software vulnerabilities is critical to ensuring the security and reliability of modern computer systems. Deep neural networks have shown promising results on vulnerability detection, but they lack the capability to capture global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sameer Shaik , Zhen Huang , Daniela Stan Raicu , Jacob Furst

Software vulnerabilities are major risks to software systems. Recently, researchers have proposed many deep learning approaches to detect software vulnerabilities. However, their accuracy is limited in practice. One of the main causes is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zeru Cheng , Yanjing Yang , He Zhang , Lanxin Yang , Jinghao Hu , Jinwei Xu , Bohan Liu , Haifeng Shen

The increasing prevalence of software vulnerabilities highlights the need for effective Automatic Vulnerability Repair (AVR) tools. While LLM-based approaches are promising, they struggle to incorporate structured security knowledge from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jia Li , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Modern software systems are developed in diverse programming languages and often harbor critical vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to compromise security. These vulnerabilities have been actively targeted in real-world attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhuoyun Qian , Fangtian Zhong , Qin Hu , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Mengfei Ren , Jiguo Yu

Identifying vulnerabilities in the source code is essential to protect the software systems from cyber security attacks. It, however, is also a challenging step that requires specialized expertise in security and code representation. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Van-Anh Nguyen , Dai Quoc Nguyen , Van Nguyen , Trung Le , Quan Hung Tran , Dinh Phung

Data-driven research on the automated discovery and repair of security vulnerabilities in source code requires comprehensive datasets of real-life vulnerable code and their fixes. To assist in such research, we propose a method to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Guru Prasad Bhandari , Amara Naseer , Leon Moonen

The dynamic landscape of cybersecurity demands precise and scalable solutions for vulnerability management in heterogeneous systems, where configuration-specific vulnerabilities are often misidentified due to inconsistent data in databases…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuning Jiang , Feiyang Shang , Freedy Tan Wei You , Huilin Wang , Chia Ren Cong , Qiaoran Meng , Nay Oo , Hoon Wei Lim , Biplab Sikdar

In today's digital landscape, the importance of timely and accurate vulnerability detection has significantly increased. This paper presents a novel approach that leverages transformer-based models and machine learning techniques to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Daniele Cipollone , Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Simone Ferlin , Maliheh Izadi , Dejan Kostic , Marco Chiesa

Detecting security vulnerabilities in software before they are exploited has been a challenging problem for decades. Traditional code analysis methods have been proposed, but are often ineffective and inefficient. In this work, we model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Noah Ziems , Shaoen Wu