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Fuzzing is the process of finding security vulnerabilities in input-processing code by repeatedly testing the code with modified inputs. In this paper, we formalize fuzzing as a reinforcement learning problem using the concept of Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Konstantin Böttinger , Patrice Godefroid , Rishabh Singh

Fuzzing has become a popular technique for automatically detecting vulnerabilities and bugs by generating unexpected inputs. In recent years, the fuzzing process has been integrated into continuous integration workflows (i.e., continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Hajimu Iida

Fuzz testing of software libraries relies on fuzz drivers to invoke library APIs. Traditionally, these drivers are written manually by developers - a process that is time-consuming and often inadequate for exercising complex program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xingyu Liu , Zengqin Huang , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun

Cryptographic protocols form the backbone of modern security systems, yet vulnerabilities persist within their implementations. Traditional testing techniques, including fuzzing, have struggled to effectively identify vulnerabilities in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-20 S Mahmudul Hasan , Polina Kozyreva , Endadul Hoque

Rust is a promising programming language that focuses on concurrency, usability, and security. It is used in production code by major industry players and got recommended by government bodies. Rust provides strong security guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 David Paaßen , Jens-Rene Giesen , Lucas Davi

Fuzzing is one of the fastest growing fields in software testing. The idea behind fuzzing is to check the behavior of software against a large number of randomly generated inputs, trying to cover all interesting parts of the input space,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rahul Gopinath , Philipp Görz , Alex Groce

Automatically crafting test scenarios for REST APIs helps deliver more reliable and trustworthy web-oriented systems. However, current black-box testing approaches rely heavily on the information available in the API's formal documentation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Davide Corradini , Zeno Montolli , Michele Pasqua , Mariano Ceccato

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

Software testing is becoming a critical part of the development cycle of embedded devices, enabling vulnerability detection. A well-studied approach of software testing is fuzz-testing (fuzzing), during which mutated input is sent to an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

Testing ultra-large microservices-based FinTech systems presents significant challenges, including restricted access to production environments, complex dependencies, and stringent security constraints. We propose SandBoxFuzz, a scalable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiazhao Yu , Yanlun Tu , Zhanlei Zhang , Tiehua Zhang , Cheng Xu , Weigang Wu , Hong Jin Kang , Xi Zheng

Fuzz testing is one of the most effective techniques for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in software. However, as the basis of fuzz testing, automated heuristics often fail to uncover deep or complex vulnerabilities. As a result, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiongchi Yu , Xiaolin Wen , Sizhe Cheng , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Yong Wang

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has become essential to secure inter-domain routing. Despite its critical role, RPKI software remains largely untested beyond shallow parsing. Existing fuzzers, like AFL++ or libFuzzer, do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel

Many modern software systems are enabled by deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. As deep learning is now prevalent, the security of deep learning libraries is a key concern. Fuzzing deep learning libraries presents two…

Fuzzing consists of repeatedly testing an application with modified, or fuzzed, inputs with the goal of finding security vulnerabilities in input-parsing code. In this paper, we show how to automate the generation of an input grammar…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Patrice Godefroid , Hila Peleg , Rishabh Singh

Fuzzing is an effective bug-finding technique but it struggles with complex systems like JavaScript engines that demand precise grammatical input. Recently, researchers have adopted language models for context-aware mutation in fuzzing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jueon Eom , Seyeon Jeong , Taekyoung Kwon

SpecFuzz is the first tool that enables dynamic testing for speculative execution vulnerabilities (e.g., Spectre). The key is a novel concept of speculation exposure: The program is instrumented to simulate speculative execution in software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Oleksii Oleksenko , Bohdan Trach , Mark Silberstein , Christof Fetzer

Internet of Things (IoT) devices offer convenience through web interfaces, web VPNs, and other web-based services, all relying on the HTTP protocol. However, these externally exposed HTTP services resent significant security risks. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zhe Yang , Hao Peng , Yanling Jiang , Xingwei Li , Haohua Du , Shuhai Wang , Jianwei Liu

Fuzzing is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs, yet few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miao Miao

In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

A fundamental problem in cybersecurity and computer science is determining whether a program is free of bugs and vulnerabilities. Fuzzing, a popular approach to discovering vulnerabilities in programs, has several advantages over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ian Hardgrove , John D. Hastings