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Source Code Model learn the proper embeddings from source codes, demonstrating significant success in various software engineering or security tasks. The recent explosive development of LLM extends the family of SCMs,bringing LLMs for code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Weiye Li , Wenyi Tang

Despite careful safety alignment, current large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to various attacks. To further unveil the safety risks of LLMs, we introduce a Safety Concept Activation Vector (SCAV) framework, which effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Zhihao Xu , Ruixuan Huang , Changyu Chen , Xiting Wang

One of the most important challenges in the field of software code audit is the presence of vulnerabilities in software source code. These flaws are highly likely ex-ploited and lead to system compromise, data leakage, or denial of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Zakirul Alam Bhuiya

Applying security patches in open source software timely is critical for ensuring the security of downstream applications. However, it is challenging to apply these patches promptly because notifications of patches are often incomplete and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Tianyu Chen , Lin Li , Taotao Qian , Jingyi Liu , Wei Yang , Ding Li , Guangtai Liang , Qianxiang Wang , Tao Xie

Software vulnerability detection is critical in software security because it identifies potential bugs in software systems, enabling immediate remediation and mitigation measures to be implemented before they may be exploited. Automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nima Shiri Harzevili , Alvine Boaye Belle , Junjie Wang , Song Wang , Zhen Ming , Jiang , Nachiappan Nagappan

Open-source software supply chain security relies heavily on assessing affected versions of library vulnerabilities. While prior studies have leveraged exploits for verifying vulnerability affected versions, they point out a key limitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zirui Chen , Qi Zhan , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

Testing is the most widely employed method to find vulnerabilities in real-world software programs. Compositional analysis, based on symbolic execution, is an automated testing method to find vulnerabilities in medium- to large-scale…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Saahil Ognawala , Ricardo Nales Amato , Alexander Pretschner , Pooja Kulkarni

Software security vulnerabilities allow attackers to perform malicious activities to disrupt software operations. Recent Transformer-based language models have significantly advanced vulnerability detection, surpassing the capabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Haoye Tian , He Ye , Ruben Martins , Claire Le Goues

Software vulnerabilities are a primary threat to modern infrastructure. While static analysis and Graph Neural Networks have long served as the foundation for vulnerability detection, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhengyang Shan , Xu Qian , Jiayun Xin , Minghui Xu , Yue Zhang , Zhen Yang , Hao Wu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Although modern vulnerability detection tools enable developers to efficiently identify numerous security flaws, indiscriminate remediation efforts often lead to superfluous development expenses. This is particularly true given that a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Hao Shen , Ming Hu , Xiaofei Xie , Jiaye Li , Mingsong Chen

Timely identification of issue reports reflecting software vulnerabilities is crucial, particularly for Internet-of-Things (IoT) where analysis is slower than non-IoT systems. While Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Sogol Masoumzadeh

The latest advancements in large language models (LLMs) have sparked interest in their potential for software vulnerability detection. However, there is currently a lack of research specifically focused on vulnerabilities in the PHP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Di Cao , Yong Liao , Xiuwei Shang

With the rapid advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have gained significant traction in diverse applications, including security vulnerability scanning. This paper investigates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Madjid G. Tehrani , Eldar Sultanow , William J. Buchanan , Mahkame Houmani , Christel H. Djaha Fodja

Software Vulnerability Prediction (SVP) is a data-driven technique for software quality assurance that has recently gained considerable attention in the Software Engineering research community. However, the difficulties of preparing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Roland Croft , Yongzheng Xie , M. Ali Babar

Detecting software vulnerabilities is critical to ensuring the security and reliability of modern computer systems. Deep neural networks have shown promising results on vulnerability detection, but they lack the capability to capture global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sameer Shaik , Zhen Huang , Daniela Stan Raicu , Jacob Furst

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

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

Deep learning-based approaches, particularly those leveraging pre-trained language models (PLMs), have shown promise in automated software vulnerability detection. However, existing methods are predominantly limited to specific programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Junji Yu , Honglin Shu , Michael Fu , Dong Wang , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yasutaka Kamei , Junjie Chen

Our work explores the utilization of deep learning, specifically leveraging the CodeBERT model, to enhance code security testing for Python applications by detecting SQL injection vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional security testing methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Guan-Yan Yang , Yi-Heng Ko , Farn Wang , Kuo-Hui Yeh , Haw-Shiang Chang , Hsueh-Yi Chen

The widespread adoption of open-source software (OSS) necessitates the mitigation of vulnerability risks. Most vulnerability detection (VD) methods are limited by inadequate contextual understanding, restrictive single-round interactions,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Youpeng Li , Kartik Joshi , Xinda Wang , Eric Wong
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