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This paper systematizes knowledge about secure software supply chain patterns. It identifies four stages of a software supply chain attack and proposes three security properties crucial for a secured supply chain: transparency, validity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Chinenye Okafor , Taylor R. Schorlemmer , Santiago Torres-Arias , James C. Davis

In modern software development workflows, the open-source software supply chain contributes significantly to efficient and convenient engineering practices. With increasing system complexity, using open-source software as third-party…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zihe Yan , Kai Luo , Haoyu Yang , Yang Yu , Zhuosheng Zhang , Guancheng Li

With the rapid development of the computer industry and computer software, the risk of software vulnerabilities being exploited has greatly increased. However, there are still many shortcomings in the existing mining techniques for leakage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Wen Zhou

The lack of reliable sources of detailed information on the vulnerabilities of open-source software (OSS) components is a major obstacle to maintaining a secure software supply chain and an effective vulnerability management process.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Antonino Sabetta , Michele Bezzi

The strength of a supply chain is an important measure of a country's or region's technical advancement and overall competitiveness. Establishing supply chain risk assessment models for effective management and mitigation of potential risks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhanting Zhou , Kejun Bi , Yuyanzhen Zhong , Chao Tang , Dongfen Li , Shi Ying , Ruijin Wang

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly frequent and sophisticated, often exploiting the software supply chain (SSC) as an attack vector. Attack graphs provide a detailed representation of the sequence of events and vulnerabilities that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Luıs Soeiro , Thomas Robert , Stefano Zacchiroli

The software supply chain comprises a highly complex set of operations, processes, tools, institutions and human factors involved in creating a piece of software. A number of high-profile attacks that exploit a weakness in this complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Eman Abu Ishgair , Marcela S. Melara , Santiago Torres-Arias

One of the most significant challenges in the field of software code auditing is the presence of vulnerabilities in software source code. Every year, more and more software flaws are discovered, either internally in proprietary code or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Juan Rodriguez Cardenas , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

The integration of open-source third-party library dependencies in Java development introduces significant security risks when these libraries contain known vulnerabilities. Existing Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools struggle to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Wang Lingxiang , Quanzhi Fu , Wenjia Song , Gelei Deng , Yi Liu , Dan Williams , Ying Zhang

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

Industrial components are of high importance because they control critical infrastructures that form the lifeline of modern societies. However, the rapid evolution of industrial components, together with the new paradigm of Industry 4.0,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Ángel Longueira-Romero , Rosa Iglesias , Jose Luis Flores , Iñaki Garitano

Smart grids have undergone a profound digitization process, integrating new data-driven control and supervision techniques, resulting in modern digital substations (DS). Attackers are more focused on attacking the supply chain of the DS, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xabier Yurrebaso , Fernando Ibañez , Ángel Longueira-Romero

Software vulnerabilities remain a critical security challenge, providing entry points for attackers into enterprise networks. Despite advances in security practices, the lack of high-quality datasets capturing diverse exploit behavior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Alireza Lotfi , Charalampos Katsis , Elisa Bertino

A system vulnerability analysis technique (SVAT) for the analysis of complex mission critical systems (CMCS) that cannot be taken offline or subjected to the risks posed by traditional penetration testing was previously developed. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Matthew Tassava , Cameron Kolodjski , Jeremy Straub

Software supply chain attacks have become a significant threat as software development increasingly relies on contributions from multiple, often unverified sources. The code from unverified sources does not pose a threat until it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Aman Sharma , Martin Wittlinger , Benoit Baudry , Martin Monperrus

This research introduces graph analysis methods and a modified Graph Attention Convolutional Neural Network (GAT) to the critical challenge of open source package vulnerability remediation by analyzing control flow graphs to profile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Fernando Vera , Palina Pauliuchenka , Ethan Oh , Bai Chien Kao , Louis DiValentin , David A. Bader

This report presents a taxonomy of vulnerabilities created as a part of an effort to develop a framework for deriving verification and validation strategies to assess software security. This taxonomy is grounded in a theoretical model of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Anil Bazaz , James D. Arthur

Supply chain security threats pose new challenges to security risk modeling techniques for complex ICT systems such as the IoT. With established techniques drawn from attack trees and reliability analysis providing needed points of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Timothy Kieras , Muhammad Junaid Farooq , Quanyan Zhu

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

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) are essential to ensure the transparency and integrity of the software supply chain. There is a growing body of work that investigates the accuracy of SBOM generation tools and the challenges for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yogya Gamage , Nadia Gonzalez Fernandez , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry