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REST APIs (Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces) are an indispensable building block in today's cloud-native applications, so testing them is critically important. However, writing automated tests for such REST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tolgahan Bardakci , Serge Demeyer , Mutlu Beyazit

Fuzzing continues to be the most effective method for identifying security vulnerabilities in software. In the context of fuzz testing, the fuzzer supplies varied inputs to fuzz targets, which are designed to comprehensively exercise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chi Thien Tran

Fuzzing is effective for vulnerability discovery but struggles with complex targets such as compilers, interpreters, and database engines, which accept textual input that must satisfy intricate syntactic and semantic constraints. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiayi Lin , Liangcai Su , Junzhe Li , Chenxiong Qian

Fuzzing has become a key search-based technique for software testing, but continuous fuzzing campaigns consume substantial computational resources and generate significant carbon footprints. Existing grey-box fuzzing approaches like AFL++…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ayse Irmak Ercevik , Aidan Dakhama , Melane Navaratnarajah , Yazhuo Cao , Leo Fernandes

Fuzz Testing techniques are the state of the art in software testing for security issues nowadays. Their great effectiveness attracted the attention of researchers and hackers and involved them in developing a lot of new techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Andrea Fioraldi , Luigi Paolo Pileggi

Softwarization and virtualization in 5G and beyond necessitate thorough testing to ensure the security of critical infrastructure and networks, requiring the identification of vulnerabilities and unintended emergent behaviors from protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jingda Yang , Sudhanshu Arya , Ying Wang

In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive approach to bolstering the security, reliability, and comprehensibility of OpenAirInterface5G (OAI5G), an open-source software framework for the exploration, development, and testing of 5G…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Huan Wu , Brian Fang , Fei Xie

Patch fuzzing is a technique aimed at identifying vulnerabilities that arise from newly patched code. While researchers have made efforts to apply patch fuzzing to testing JavaScript engines with considerable success, these efforts have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Junjie Wang , Yuhan Ma , Xiaofei Xie , Xiaoning Du , Xiangwei Zhang

Fuzzing is utilized for testing software and systems for cybersecurity risk via the automated adaptation of inputs. It facilitates the identification of software bugs and misconfigurations that may create vulnerabilities, cause abnormal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jack Hance , Jeremy Straub

Despite the fact that the state-of-the-art fuzzers can generate inputs efficiently, existing fuzz drivers still cannot adequately cover entries in libraries. Most of these fuzz drivers are crafted manually by developers, and their quality…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Peng Chen , Yuxuan Xie , Yunlong Lyu , Yuxiao Wang , Hao Chen

In the past few years, several attacks against the vulnerabilities of EOSIO smart contracts have caused severe financial losses to this prevalent blockchain platform. As a lightweight test-generation approach, grey-box fuzzing can open up…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Jianfei Zhou , Tianxing Jiang , Shuwei Song , Ting Chen

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting vulnerabilities in smart contracts, which generates transaction sequences to explore the execution paths of smart contracts. However, existing fuzzers are falling short in detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jie Chen , Liangmin Wang

The rise of smart devices in critical domains--including automotive, medical, industrial--demands robust firmware testing. Fuzzing firmware in re-hosted environments is a promising method for automated testing at scale, but remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guy Farrelly , Michael Chesser , Seyit Camtepe , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Coverage-guided fuzzing has been widely applied to address zero-day vulnerabilities in general-purpose software and operating systems. This approach relies on instrumenting the target code at compile time. However, applying it to industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Carmine Cesarano , Roberto Natella

Network-facing applications are commonly exposed to all kinds of attacks, especially when connected to the internet. As a result, web servers like Nginx or client applications such as curl make every effort to secure and harden their code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Nils Bars , Moritz Schloegel , Nico Schiller , Lukas Bernhard , Thorsten Holz

RESTful APIs are an increasingly common way to expose software systems functionality and it is therefore of high interest to find methods to automatically test and verify such APIs. To lower the barrier for industry adoption, such methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Stefan Karlsson , Adnan Causevic , Daniel Sundmark

Grey-box fuzzers such as American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) are popular tools for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities in programs. While these fuzzers have been able to find vulnerabilities in many widely used programs, they are not efficient;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Siddharth Karamcheti , Gideon Mann , David Rosenberg

Cloud applications heavily rely on APIs to communicate with each other and exchange data. To ensure the reliability of cloud applications, cloud providers widely adopt API testing techniques. Unfortunately, existing API testing approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jia Li , Jiacheng Shen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Information leakage is a class of error that can lead to severe consequences. However unlike other errors, it is rarely explicitly considered during the software testing process. LeakFuzzer advances the state of the art by using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

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
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