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Vulnerability identification is crucial for cyber security in the software-related industry. Early identification methods require significant manual efforts in crafting features or annotating vulnerable code. Although the recent pre-trained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Xuxiang Jiang , Yinhao Xiao , Jun Wang , Wei Zhang

Despite the successes of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) based vulnerability detectors (VD), they are limited to providing only the decision on whether a given code is vulnerable or not, without details on what part of the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen

Automatically locating vulnerable statements in source code is crucial to assure software security and alleviate developers' debugging efforts. This becomes even more important in today's software ecosystem, where vulnerable code can flow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Yangruibo Ding , Sahil Suneja , Yunhui Zheng , Jim Laredo , Alessandro Morari , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Each year, software vulnerabilities are discovered, which pose significant risks of exploitation and system compromise. We present a convolutional neural network model that can successfully identify bugs in C code. We trained our model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 C. Seas , G. Fitzpatrick , J. A. Hamilton , M. C. Carlisle

Vulnerability identification is crucial to protect software systems from attacks for cyber-security. However, huge projects have more than millions of lines of code, and the complex dependencies make it hard to carry out traditional static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Shuo Liu , Gail Kaiser

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

With the rapid development of the computer industry and computer software, the risk of software vulnerabilities being exploited has greatly increased. However, there are still many shortcomings in the existing mining techniques for leakage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Wen Zhou

With the growing threat of software vulnerabilities, deep learning (DL)-based detectors have gained popularity for vulnerability detection. However, doubts remain regarding their consistency within declared CWE ranges, real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yunqian Wang , Xiaohong Li , Yao Zhang , Yuekang Li , Zhiping Zhou , Ruitao Feng

The automatic detection of software vulnerabilities is an important research problem. However, existing solutions to this problem rely on human experts to define features and often miss many vulnerabilities (i.e., incurring high false…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Zhen Li , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Xinyu Ou , Hai Jin , Sujuan Wang , Zhijun Deng , Yuyi Zhong

Large Language Models (LLMs) have training corpora containing large amounts of program code, greatly improving the model's code comprehension and generation capabilities. However, sound comprehensive research on detecting program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yu Liu , Lang Gao , Mingxin Yang , Yu Xie , Ping Chen , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen

Though many deep learning (DL)-based vulnerability detection approaches have been proposed and indeed achieved remarkable performance, they still have limitations in the generalization as well as the practical usage. More precisely,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Chao Ni , Xin Yin , Kaiwen Yang , Dehai Zhao , Zhenchang Xing , Xin Xia

Large language models (LLMs) have brought significant advancements to code generation, benefiting both novice and experienced developers. However, their training using unsanitized data from open-source repositories, like GitHub, introduces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jiexin Wang , Liuwen Cao , Xitong Luo , Zhiping Zhou , Jiayuan Xie , Adam Jatowt , Yi Cai

Recent advances in automated vulnerability detection have achieved potential results in helping developers determine vulnerable components. However, after detecting vulnerabilities, investigating to fix vulnerable code is a non-trivial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hieu Dinh Vo , Son Nguyen

This paper presents LProtector, an automated vulnerability detection system for C/C++ codebases driven by the large language model (LLM) GPT-4o and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). As software complexity grows, traditional methods face…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ze Sheng , Fenghua Wu , Xiangwu Zuo , Chao Li , Yuxin Qiao , Lei Hang

Context: Software vulnerabilities pose a significant threat to modern software systems, as evidenced by the growing number of reported vulnerabilities and cyberattacks. These escalating trends underscore the urgent need for effective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Siyu Chen , Jiongyi Yang , Xiang Chen , Menglin Zheng , Minnan Wei , Xiaolin Ju

Deep Learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool for vulnerability detection, often outperforming traditional solutions. However, developing effective DL models requires large amounts of real-world data, which can be difficult to obtain in…

Code vulnerability detection is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of modern software systems. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in this domain. However, notable discrepancies in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhihong Sun , Jia Li , Yao Wan , Chuanyi Li , Hongyu Zhang , Zhi jin , Ge Li , Hong Liu , Chen Lyu , Songlin Hu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a popular choice in vulnerability detection studies given their foundational capabilities, open source availability, and variety of models, but have limited scalability due to extensive compute…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Miles Farmer , Ekincan Ufuktepe , Anne Watson , Hialo Muniz Carvalho , Vadim Okun , Zineb Maasaoui , Kannappan Palaniappan

Source code and its accompanying comments are complementary yet naturally aligned modalities-code encodes structural logic while comments capture developer intent. However, existing vulnerability detection methods mostly rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zeming Dong , Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Yao Zhang , Maxime Cordy , Hao Liu , Mike Papadakis , Yongqiang Lyu

Software vulnerabilities are a serious and crucial concern. Typically, in a program or function consisting of hundreds or thousands of source code statements, there are only a few statements causing the corresponding vulnerabilities. Most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Van Nguyen , Trung Le , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Michael Fu , John Grundy , Hung Nguyen , Seyit Camtepe , Paul Quirk , Dinh Phung