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With the continuous extension of the Industrial Internet, cyber incidents caused by software vulnerabilities have been increasing in recent years. However, software vulnerabilities detection is still heavily relying on code review done by…

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The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a major vulnerability database that is free to use for everyone. It provides information about vulnerabilities and further useful resources such as linked advisories and patches. The NVD is often…

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Security vulnerabilities are increasingly prevalent in modern software and they are widely consequential to our society. Various approaches to defending against these vulnerabilities have been proposed, among which those leveraging deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yu Nong , Mohammed Aldeen , Long Cheng , Hongxin Hu , Feng Chen , Haipeng Cai

Automated detection of vulnerabilities in source code is an essential cybersecurity challenge, underpinning trust in digital systems and services. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising approach as they can learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 David Egea , Barproda Halder , Sanghamitra Dutta

The application of language models to project-level vulnerability detection remains challenging, owing to the dual requirement of accurately localizing security-sensitive code and correctly correlating and reasoning over complex program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ziliang Wang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Hao Zhu , Zhi Jin

This research introduces graph analysis methods and a modified Graph Attention Convolutional Neural Network (GAT) to the critical challenge of open source package vulnerability remediation by analyzing control flow graphs to profile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Fernando Vera , Palina Pauliuchenka , Ethan Oh , Bai Chien Kao , Louis DiValentin , David A. Bader

Software vulnerabilities pose critical security threats, with nearly 50,000 CVEs reported in 2025. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated vulnerability detection, three key challenges remain. First, LLM-generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ze Sheng , Zhicheng Chen , Qingxiao Xu , Kewen Zhu , Jeff Huang

Modern software relies on a multitude of automated testing and quality assurance tools to prevent errors, bugs and potential vulnerabilities. This study sets out to provide a head-to-head, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of six…

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Attacks can exploit zero-day or one-day vulnerabilities that are not publicly disclosed. To detect these vulnerabilities, security researchers monitor development activities in open-source repositories to identify unreported security…

Although Deep Learning (DL) methods becoming increasingly popular in vulnerability detection, their performance is seriously limited by insufficient training data. This is mainly because few existing software organizations can maintain a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Peiheng Zhou , Ming Hu , Xingrun Quan , Yawen Peng , Xiaofei Xie , Yanxin Yang , Chengwei Liu , Yueming Wu , Mingsong Chen

In recent years, the rapid development of deep learning technology has brought new prospects to the field of vulnerability detection. Many vulnerability detection methods involve converting source code into images for detection, yet they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tao Peng , Ling Gui , Yi Sun

With the explosion of graph-structured data, link prediction has emerged as an increasingly important task. Embedding methods for link prediction utilize neural networks to generate node embeddings, which are subsequently employed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jun Fu , Xiaojuan Zhang , Shuang Li , Dali Chen

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

Large-scale commonsense knowledge bases empower a broad range of AI applications, where the automatic extraction of commonsense knowledge (CKE) is a fundamental and challenging problem. CKE from text is known for suffering from the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuan Yao , Tianyu Yu , Ao Zhang , Mengdi Li , Ruobing Xie , Cornelius Weber , Zhiyuan Liu , Hai-Tao Zheng , Stefan Wermter , Tat-Seng Chua , Maosong Sun

Thousands of security vulnerabilities are discovered in production software each year, either reported publicly to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database or discovered internally in proprietary code. Vulnerabilities often…

The increasing complexity of modern software systems exacerbates the prevalence of security vulnerabilities, posing risks of severe breaches and substantial economic loss. Consequently, robust code vulnerability detection is essential for…

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In recent years, a proliferation of cyber-security threats and diversity has been on the rise culminating in an increase in their reporting and analysis. To counter that, many non-profit organizations have emerged in this domain, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Ashraf Haddad , Najwa Aaraj , Preslav Nakov , Septimiu Fabian Mare

To address the extremely concerning problem of software vulnerability, system security is often entrusted to Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. Despite their now established detection capabilities, such models are limited by design to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Marco Pintore , Giorgio Piras , Angelo Sotgiu , Maura Pintor , Battista Biggio

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…

The rapid evolution of cyber threats has highlighted significant gaps in security knowledge integration. Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs (CKGs) relying on structured data inherently exhibit hysteresis, as the timely incorporation of rapidly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zijing Xu , Ziwei Ning , Tiancheng Hu , Jianwei Zhuge , Yangyang Wang , Jiahao Cao , Mingwei Xu