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In open-source projects, anyone can contribute, so it is important to have an active continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline in addition to a protocol for reporting security concerns, especially in projects that are…

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Open-source AI libraries are foundational to modern AI systems, yet they present significant, underexamined risks spanning security, licensing, maintenance, supply chain integrity, and regulatory compliance. We introduce LibVulnWatch, a…

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The quantity and quality of vulnerability datasets are essential for developing deep learning solutions to vulnerability-related tasks. Due to the limited availability of vulnerabilities, a common approach to building such datasets is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Zeyu Gao , Junlin Zhou , Bolun Zhang , Yi He , Chao Zhang , Yuxin Cui , Hao Wang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in open-source software (OSS) ecosystems, creating complex interactions among natural language prompts, probabilistic model outputs, and execution-capable components. However, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Fariha Tanjim Shifat , Hariswar Baburaj , Ce Zhou , Jaydeb Sarker , Mia Mohammad Imran

Vulnerability detection is crucial for maintaining software security, and recent research has explored the use of Language Models (LMs) for this task. While LMs have shown promising results, their performance has been inconsistent across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Syafiq Al Atiiq , Christian Gehrmann , Kevin Dahlén

The increasing complexity and volume of software systems have heightened the importance of identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities. The existing software vulnerability datasets frequently fall short in providing comprehensive,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Murtuza Shahzad , Joseph Wilson , Ibrahim Al Azher , Hamed Alhoori , Mona Rahimi

Open-source software (OSS) pipelines rely on automated static analysis tools to prevent the introduction of vulnerabilities in code. However, there is limited understanding of the efficacy of these tools across the OSS ecosystem over time.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Kyle Domico , Yohan Beugin , Patrick McDaniel

Efficient code retrieval is critical for developer productivity, yet existing benchmarks largely focus on Python and rarely stress-test robustness beyond superficial lexical cues. To address the gap, we introduce an automated pipeline for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Kaicheng Wang , Liyan Huang , Weike Fang , Weihang Wang

The Web is replete with tutorial-style content on how to accomplish programming tasks. Unfortunately, even top-ranked tutorials suffer from severe security vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection (SQLi).…

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Modern software heavily relies on the use of components. Those components are usually published in central repositories, and managed by build systems via dependencies. Due to issues around vulnerabilities, licenses and the propagation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jens Dietrich , Shawn Rasheed , Alexander Jordan , Tim White

Software vulnerabilities can result in catastrophic cyberattacks that increasingly threaten business operations. Consequently, ensuring the safety of software systems has become a paramount concern for both private and public sectors.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Boyu Zhang , Triet H. M. Le , M. Ali Babar

Cryptocurrencies have become very popular in recent years. Thousands of new cryptocurrencies have emerged, proposing new and novel techniques that improve on Bitcoin's core innovation of the blockchain data structure and consensus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Qingze Hum , Wei Jin Tan , Shi Ying Tey , Latasha Lenus , Ivan Homoliak , Yun Lin , Jun Sun

We present The Vault, a dataset of high-quality code-text pairs in multiple programming languages for training large language models to understand and generate code. We present methods for thoroughly extracting samples that use both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Dung Nguyen Manh , Nam Le Hai , Anh T. V. Dau , Anh Minh Nguyen , Khanh Nghiem , Jin Guo , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Many ML-based approaches have been proposed to automatically detect, localize, and repair software vulnerabilities. While ML-based methods are more effective than program analysis-based vulnerability analysis tools, few have been integrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Michael Fu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Trung Le , Yuki Kume , Van Nguyen , Dinh Phung , John Grundy

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT (i.e., gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4) exhibited remarkable advancement in a range of software engineering tasks associated with source code such as code review and code generation. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Michael Fu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Van Nguyen , Trung Le

Third-party libraries (TPLs) are frequently reused in software to reduce development cost and the time to market. However, external library dependencies may introduce vulnerabilities into host applications. The issue of library dependency…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Wei Tang , Zhengzi Xu , Chengwei Liu , Jiahui Wu , Shouguo Yang , Yi Li , Ping Luo , Yang Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in software vulnerability detection, particularly on function-level benchmarks like Devign and BigVul. However, real-world detection requires interprocedural analysis, as vulnerabilities often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Alperen Yildiz , Sin G. Teo , Yiling Lou , Yebo Feng , Chong Wang , Dinil M. Divakaran

We present a new type of attack in which source code is maliciously encoded so that it appears different to a compiler and to the human eye. This attack exploits subtleties in text-encoding standards such as Unicode to produce source code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Nicholas Boucher , Ross Anderson

Vulnerabilities in software security can remain undiscovered even after being exploited. Linking attacks to vulnerabilities helps experts identify and respond promptly to the incident. This paper introduces VULDAT, a classification tool…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Refat Othman , Bruno Rossi , Barbara Russo

We introduce CPP-UT-Bench, a benchmark dataset to measure C++ unit test generation capability of a large language model (LLM). CPP-UT-Bench aims to reflect a broad and diverse set of C++ codebases found in the real world. The dataset…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Vaishnavi Bhargava , Rajat Ghosh , Debojyoti Dutta