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Web services are becoming business-critical components, often deployed with critical software bugs that can be maliciously explored. Web vulnerability scanners allow the detection of security vulnerabilities in web services by stressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Osejobe Ehichoya , Chinwuba Christian Nnaemeka

Modern web browsers have effectively become the new operating system for business applications, yet their security posture is often under-scrutinized. This paper presents a novel, comprehensive Browser Security Posture Analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Avihay Cohen

Integration testing is one the important phase in software testing life cycle (STLC). With the fast growth of internet and web services, web-based applications are also growing rapidly and their importance and complexity is also increasing.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-07-16 Imran Akhtar Khan , Roopa Singh

In this new and current era of technology, advancements and techniques, efficient and effective text document classification is becoming a challenging and highly required area to capably categorize text documents into mutually exclusive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-11 Shalini Puri , Sona Kaushik

In recent years, REST API fuzzing has emerged to explore errors on a cloud service. Its performance highly depends on the sequence construction and request generation. However, existing REST API fuzzers have trouble generating long…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chenyang Lyu , Jiacheng Xu , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Qinying Wang , Binbin Zhao , Gaoning Pan , Wei Cao , Raheem Beyah

Ensuring the security and reliability of machine learning frameworks is crucial for building trustworthy AI-based systems. Fuzzing, a popular technique in secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), can be used to develop secure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ilya Yegorov , Eli Kobrin , Darya Parygina , Alexey Vishnyakov , Andrey Fedotov

Network applications are routinely under attack. We consider the problem of developing an effective and efficient fuzzer for the recently ratified QUIC network protocol to uncover security vulnerabilities. QUIC offers a unified transport…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kian Kai Ang , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Fuzzing is an automated software testing technique broadly adopted by the industry. A popular variant is mutation-based fuzzing, which discovers a large number of bugs in practice. While the research community has studied mutation-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Patrick Jauernig , Domagoj Jakobovic , Stjepan Picek , Emmanuel Stapf , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Fuzzing, a widely-used technique for bug detection, has seen advancements through Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite their potential, LLMs face specific challenges in fuzzing. In this paper, we identified five major challenges of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yu Jiang , Jie Liang , Fuchen Ma , Yuanliang Chen , Chijin Zhou , Yuheng Shen , Zhiyong Wu , Jingzhou Fu , Mingzhe Wang , ShanShan Li , Quan Zhang

Many software projects employ manual code review to gatekeep defects and vulnerabilities in the code before integration. However, reviewers often work under time pressure and rely primarily on static inspection, leaving the dynamic aspects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Wachiraphan Charoenwet , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Van-Thuan Pham , Christoph Treude

Fuzzing is a popular dynamic program analysis technique used to find vulnerabilities in complex software. Fuzzing involves presenting a target program with crafted malicious input designed to cause crashes, buffer overflows, memory errors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mohit Rajpal , William Blum , Rishabh Singh

Sequence-based specification and usage-driven statistical testing are designed for rigorous and cost-effective software development, offering a semi-formal approach to assessing the behavior of complex systems and interactions between…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seth Wolfgang , Lan Lin , Fengguang Song

Command-line interface (CLI) fuzzing tests programs by mutating both command-line options and input file contents, thus enabling discovery of vulnerabilities that only manifest under specific option-input combinations. Prior works of CLI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Momoko Shiraishi , Yinzhi Cao , Takahiro Shinagawa

This paper introduces Pythia, the first fuzzer that augments grammar-based fuzzing with coverage-guided feedback and a learning-based mutation strategy for stateful REST API fuzzing. Pythia uses a statistical model to learn common usage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Vaggelis Atlidakis , Roxana Geambasu , Patrice Godefroid , Marina Polishchuk , Baishakhi Ray

Network latency in mobile software has a large impact on user experience, with potentially severe economic consequences. Prefetching and caching have been shown effective in reducing the latencies in browser-based systems. However, those…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Yixue Zhao , Paul Wat , Marcelo Schmitt Laser , Nenad Medvidovic

A common paradigm for improving fuzzing performance is to focus on selected regions of a program rather than its entirety. While previous work has largely explored how these locations can be reached, their selection, that is, the where, has…

Fuzzing is an automated application vulnerability detection method. For genetic algorithm-based fuzzing, it can mutate the seed files provided by users to obtain a number of inputs, which are then used to test the objective application in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Chenyang Lyu , Shouling Ji , Yuwei Li , Junfeng Zhou , Jianhai Chen , Jing Chen

Following the advent of the American Fuzzy Lop (AFL), fuzzing had a surge in popularity, and modern day fuzzers range from simple blackbox random input generators to complex whitebox concolic frameworks that are capable of deep program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-20 François Gauthier , Behnaz Hassanshahi , Benjamin Selwyn-Smith , Trong Nhan Mai , Max Schlüter , Micah Williams

Modern web services routinely provide REST APIs for clients to access their functionality. These APIs present unique challenges and opportunities for automated testing, driving the recent development of many techniques and tools that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Myeongsoo Kim , Qi Xin , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

The World Wide Web is the most wide known information source that is easily available and searchable. It consists of billions of interconnected documents Web pages are authored by millions of people. Accesses made by various users to pages…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Priyanka Verma , Nishtha Kesswani