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Preventing vulnerability exploits is a critical software maintenance task, and software engineers often rely on Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVEs) reports for information about vulnerable systems and libraries. These reports include…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Danielle Gonzalez , Holly Hastings , Mehdi Mirakhorli

Automated vulnerability detection is a fundamental task in software security, yet existing learning-based methods still struggle to capture the structural dependencies, domain-specific vulnerability knowledge, and complex program semantics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wenxin Tang , Xiang Zhang , Junliang Liu , Jingyu Xiao , Xi Xiao , Jinlong Yang , Yuehe Ma , Zhenyu Liu , Zhengheng Li , Zicheng Wang , Wang Luo , Qing Li , Lei Wang , Peng Xiangli

Vulnerability databases are vital sources of information on emergent software security concerns. Security professionals, from system administrators to developers to researchers, heavily depend on these databases to track vulnerabilities and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Afsah Anwar , Ahmed Abusnaina , Songqing Chen , Frank Li , David Mohaisen

Recently, deep learning techniques have garnered substantial attention for their ability to identify vulnerable code patterns accurately. However, current state-of-the-art deep learning models, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Marwan Omar

The rapid increase in cybersecurity vulnerabilities necessitates automated tools for analyzing and classifying vulnerability reports. This paper presents a novel Vulnerability Report Classifier that leverages the BERT (Bidirectional Encoder…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Himanshu Tiwari

In vulnerability assessments, software component-based CVE attribution is a common method to identify possibly vulnerable systems at scale. However, such version-centric approaches yield high false-positive rates for binary distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 René Helmke , Johannes vom Dorp

Recent years have seen smart contracts are getting increasingly popular in building trustworthy decentralized applications. Previous research has proposed static and dynamic techniques to detect vulnerabilities in smart contracts. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jiaming Ye , Mingliang Ma , Yun Lin , Lei Ma , Yinxing Xue , Jianjun Zhao

Traditional vulnerability detection methods rely heavily on predefined rule matching, which often fails to capture vulnerabilities accurately. With the rise of large language models (LLMs), leveraging their ability to understand code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiang Li , Yueci Su , Jiahao Liu , Zhiwei Lin , Yuebing Hou , Peiming Gao , Yuanchao Zhang

Software vulnerabilities present a persistent security challenge, with over 25,000 new vulnerabilities reported in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database in 2024 alone. While deep learning based approaches show promise for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Ahmed Lekssays , Hamza Mouhcine , Khang Tran , Ting Yu , Issa Khalil

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

Automatically detecting software vulnerabilities is an important problem that has attracted much attention from the academic research community. However, existing vulnerability detectors still cannot achieve the vulnerability detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhen Li , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Zhaoxuan Chen , Yawei Zhu , Hai Jin

As the number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) continues to grow exponentially, security teams face increasingly difficult decisions about prioritization. Current approaches using Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Naoyuki Shimizu , Masaki Hashimoto

Software vulnerabilities are flaws in computer software systems that pose significant threats to the integrity, security, and reliability of modern software and its application data. These vulnerabilities can lead to substantial economic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Penghui Liu , Yingzhou Bi , Jiangtao Huang , Xinxin Jiang , Lianmei Wang

In cybersecurity, CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) are publicly disclosed hardware or software vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are documented and listed in the NVD database maintained by the NIST. Knowledge of the CVEs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Manuel Poisson , Valérie Viet Triem Tong , Gilles Guette , Frédéric Guihéry , Damien Crémilleux

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a major vulnerability database that is free to use for everyone. It provides information about vulnerabilities and further useful resources such as linked advisories and patches. The NVD is often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Julia Wunder , Alan Corona , Andreas Hammer , Zinaida Benenson

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database (CVE) is one of the largest publicly available source of software and hardware vulnerability data and reports. In this work we analyze the CVE database in the context of IoT device and system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Grzegorz J. Blinowski , Paweł Piotrowski

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

Context: Identifying potential vulnerable code is important to improve the security of our software systems. However, the manual detection of software vulnerabilities requires expert knowledge and is time-consuming, and must be supported by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Laura Wartschinski , Yannic Noller , Thomas Vogel , Timo Kehrer , Lars Grunske

In recent years, code security has become increasingly important, especially with the rise of interconnected technologies. Detecting vulnerabilities early in the software development process has demonstrated numerous benefits. Consequently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 José Gonçalves , Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Understanding the severity of vulnerabilities within cloud services is particularly important for today service administrators.Although many systems, e.g., CVSS, have been built to evaluate and score the severity of vulnerabilities for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Hao Zhuang , Florian Pydde