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A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) provides transparency by documenting software component metadata and dependencies. However, SBOM adoption depends on tool ecosystems. With two dominant formats: SPDX and CycloneDX - the ecosystems vary…

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The robustness of critical infrastructure systems is contingent upon the integrity and transparency of their software supply chains. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is pivotal in this regard, offering an exhaustive inventory of…

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Modern digital ecosystems, spanning software, hardware, learning models, datasets, and cryptographic products, continue to grow in complexity, making it difficult for organizations to understand and manage component dependencies. Bills of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuai Zhang , Minzhao Lyu , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is becoming an increasingly important tool in regulatory and technical spaces to introduce more transparency and security into a project's software supply chain. Artificial intelligence (AI) projects face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Karen Bennet , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Arthit Suriyawongkul , Kate Stewart

Modern networked systems rely on complex software stacks, which often conceal vulnerabilities arising from intricate interdependencies. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is effective for identifying dependencies and mitigating security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Vadim Safronov , Ionut Bostan , Nicholas Allott , Andrew Martin

A Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) is a detailed inventory of all components, libraries, and modules in a software artifact, providing traceability throughout the software supply chain. With the increasing popularity of JavaScript in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Leo Song , Steven H. H. Ding , Yuan Tian , Li Tao Li , Philippe Charland , Andrew Walenstein

Modern software engineering increasingly relies on open, community-driven standards, yet how such standards are created in fast-evolving domains like AI-powered systems remains underexplored. This paper presents a detailed experience report…

The software bill of materials (SBOM) concept aims to include more information about a software build such as copyrights, dependencies and security references. But SBOM lacks visibility into the process for building a package. Efforts such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Dennis Volpano , Drew Malzahn , Andrew Pareles , Mark Thober

Ensuring the security of software supply chains requires reliable identification of upstream dependencies. We present the Automatic Bill of Materials, or ABOM, a technique for embedding dependency metadata in binaries at compile time.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Nicholas Boucher , Ross Anderson

Neural networks have become integral to many fields due to their exceptional performance. The open-source community has witnessed a rapid influx of neural network (NN) repositories with fast-paced iterations, making it crucial for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xiaoning Ren , Yuhang Ye , Xiongfei Wu , Yueming Wu , Yinxing Xue

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) have become a regulatory requirement for improving software supply chain security and trust by means of transparency regarding components that make up software artifacts. However, enterprise and regulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Eman Abu Ishgair , Chinenye Okafor , Marcela S. Melara , Santiago Torres-Arias

Most of the current software security analysis tools assess vulnerabilities in isolation. However, sophisticated software supply chain security threats often stem from cascaded vulnerability and security weakness chains that span dependent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Laura Baird , Armin Moin

In open-source software (OSS), software vulnerabilities have significantly increased. Although researchers have investigated the perspectives of vulnerability reporters and OSS contributor security practices, understanding the perspectives…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jessy Ayala , Yu-Jye Tung , Joshua Garcia

Software supply chain security compromises often stem from cascaded interactions of vulnerabilities, for example, between multiple vulnerable components. Yet, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)-based pipelines for security analysis typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Laura Baird , Armin Moin

Throughout computer history, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that critical software vulnerabilities can significantly affect the components involved. In the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) ecosystem, most software is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Stefan Tatschner , Michael P. Heinl , Nicole Pappler , Tobias Specht , Sven Plaga , Thomas Newe

Bills of materials (BOMs) are quickly becoming an effective tool for managing supply chain risk. As more BOMs enter circulation, the ability to compare them will be crucial to understanding how products differ and in managing BOMs from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Lucas Tate , Rebecca Jones , Doug Dennis , Tatyana Benko , Jody Askren

Much of the current software depends on open-source components, which in turn have complex dependencies on other open-source libraries. Vulnerabilities in open source therefore have potentially huge impacts. The goal of this work is to get…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Tobias Dam , Sebastian Neumaier

Open-source software (OSS) has become increasingly more popular across different domains. However, this rapid development and widespread adoption come with a security cost. The growing complexity and openness of OSS ecosystems have led to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Seyed Ali Akhavani , Behzad Ousat , Amin Kharraz

In the world of open-source software (OSS), the number of known vulnerabilities has tremendously increased. The GitHub Advisory Database contains advisories for security risks in GitHub-hosted OSS projects. As of 09/25/2023, there are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jessy Ayala , Yu-Jye Tung , Joshua Garcia

Privacy regulations mandate that developers must provide authentic and comprehensive privacy notices, e.g., privacy policies or labels, to inform users of their apps' privacy practices. However, due to a lack of knowledge of privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhen Tao , Shidong Pan , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoyu Sun , Omar Haggag , John Grundy , Jingjie Li , Liming Zhu