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Software vulnerabilities pose serious risks to modern software ecosystems. While the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is the authoritative source for cataloging these vulnerabilities, it often lacks explicit links to the corresponding…

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Web developers routinely rely on third-party Java-Script libraries such as jQuery to enhance the functionality of their sites. However, if not properly maintained, such dependencies can create attack vectors allowing a site to be…

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WebAssembly is a new binary instruction format that allows targeted compiled code written in high-level languages to be executed with near-native speed by the browser's JavaScript engine. However, given that WebAssembly binaries can be…

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Software applications integrate more and more open-source software (OSS) to benefit from code reuse. As a drawback, each vulnerability discovered in bundled OSS potentially affects the application. Upon the disclosure of every new…

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PyPI provides a convenient and accessible package management platform to developers, enabling them to quickly implement specific functions and improve work efficiency. However, the rapid development of the PyPI ecosystem has led to a severe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Wenbo Guo , Zhengzi Xu , Chengwei Liu , Cheng Huang , Yong Fang , Yang Liu

The increasing popularity of certain programming languages has spurred the creation of ecosystem-specific package repositories and package managers. Such repositories (e.g., npm, PyPI) serve as public databases that users can query to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Piergiorgio Ladisa , Merve Sahin , Serena Elisa Ponta , Marco Rosa , Matias Martinez , Olivier Barais

With one of the largest available collection of reusable packages, the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js is one of the most popular programming application. With recent work showing evidence that known vulnerabilities are prevalent in…

Software vulnerabilities pose significant risks to computer systems, impacting our daily lives, productivity, and even our health. Identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities in a timely manner is crucial to prevent hacking and data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jin Wang , Zishan Huang , Hui Xiao , Yinhao Xiao

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

Software supply chain attacks have revealed blind spots in existing SCA tools, which are often limited to a single ecosystem and assess either software artifacts or community activity in isolation. This fragmentation across tools and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ziheng Liu , Runzhi He , Minghui Zhou

We use browsers daily to access all sorts of information. Because browsers routinely process scripts, media, and executable code from unknown sources, they form a critical security boundary between users and adversaries. A common attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Nils Bars , Lukas Bernhard , Moritz Schloegel , Thorsten Holz

Recent work has shown that Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation can introduce timing side-channels to constant-time programs, which would otherwise be a principled and effective means to counter timing attacks. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Qi Qin , JulianAndres JiYang , Fu Song , Taolue Chen , Xinyu Xing

JavaScript is a popular attack vector for releasing malicious payloads on unsuspecting Internet users. Authors of this malicious JavaScript often employ numerous obfuscation techniques in order to prevent the automatic detection by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Adrian Herrera

Recent years have witnessed the emerging trend of extensions in modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio Code (VSCode) that significantly enhance developer productivity. Especially, popular AI coding assistants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Li Li

Software security mainly studies vulnerability detection: is my code vulnerable today? This hinders risk estimation, so new approaches are emerging to forecast the occurrence of future vulnerabilities. While useful, these approaches are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Carlos E. Budde , Ranindya Paramitha , Fabio Massacci

Open-source software serves as a foundation for the internet and the cyber supply chain, but its exploitation is becoming increasingly prevalent. While advances in vulnerability detection for OSS have been significant, prior research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zhuoran Tan , Christos Anagnosstopoulos , Jeremy Singer

Open-source software (OSS) dependencies are a dominant component of modern software code bases. Using proven and well-tested OSS components lets developers reduce development time and cost while improving quality. However, heavy reliance on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Stefan Schott , Serena Elisa Ponta , Wolfram Fischer , Jonas Klauke , Eric Bodden

We present a comprehensive dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits (VFCs) to advance research in Java vulnerability analysis. Our dataset, derived from thousands of open-source Java projects on GitHub, comprises two variants: JavaVFC…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Tan Bui , Yan Naing Tun , Yiran Cheng , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ting Zhang , Hong Jin Kang

Malware represents a significant security concern in today's digital landscape, as it can destroy or disable operating systems, steal sensitive user information, and occupy valuable disk space. However, current malware detection methods,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chenzhong Yin , Hantang Zhang , Mingxi Cheng , Xiongye Xiao , Xinghe Chen , Xin Ren , Paul Bogdan

A Java File Security System (JFSS) [1] has been developed by us. That is an ecrypted file system. It is developed by us because there are so many file data breaches in the past and current history and they are going to increase day by day…

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