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In the domain of security, vulnerabilities frequently remain undetected even after their exploitation. In this work, vulnerabilities refer to publicly disclosed flaws documented in Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reports.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Refat Othman , Diaeddin Rimawi , Bruno Rossi , Barbara Russo

Modern infrastructures rely on software systems that remain vulnerable to cyberattacks. These attacks frequently exploit vulnerabilities documented in repositories such as MITRE's Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). However, Cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Refat Othman

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 have been continually disclosed and documented. An important practice in documenting vulnerabilities is to describe the key vulnerability aspects, such as vulnerability type, root cause, affected product, impact,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Hao Guo , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaohong Li

Weaknesses in computer systems such as faults, bugs and errors in the architecture, design or implementation of software provide vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to compromise the security of a system. Common Weakness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Siddhartha Shankar Das , Edoardo Serra , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Alex Pothen , Ehab Al-Shaer

Breaking cybersecurity events are shared across a range of websites, including security blogs (FireEye, Kaspersky, etc.), in addition to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In this paper, we investigate methods to analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Shi Zong , Alan Ritter , Graham Mueller , Evan Wright

The number of newly published vulnerabilities is constantly increasing. Until now, the information available when a new vulnerability is published is manually assessed by experts using a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) vector and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Philipp Kuehn , David N. Relke , Christian Reuter

This paper addresses a critical challenge in cybersecurity: the gap between vulnerability information represented by Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) and the resulting cyberattack actions. CVEs provide insights into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Ehsan Aghaei , Ehab Al-Shaer

In this paper, we analyze the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) dictionary and the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) feeds. These repositories are widely used in Vulnerability Management Systems (VMSs) to check for known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Luis Alberto Benthin Sanguino , Rafael Uetz

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) represent standard means for sharing publicly known information security vulnerabilities. One or more CVEs are grouped into the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classes for the purpose of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Ehsan Aghaei , Waseem Shadid , Ehab Al-Shaer

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

Each year, thousands of software vulnerabilities are discovered and reported to the public. Unpatched known vulnerabilities are a significant security risk. It is imperative that software vendors quickly provide patches once vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Benjamin L. Bullough , Anna K. Yanchenko , Christopher L. Smith , Joseph R. Zipkin

The proliferation of software vulnerabilities poses a significant challenge for security databases and analysts tasked with their timely identification, classification, and remediation. With the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Daniel Alfasi , Tal Shapira , Anat Bremler Barr

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

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

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are pivotal information for proactive cybersecurity measures, including service patching, security hardening, and more. However, CVEs typically offer low-level, product-oriented descriptions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Ehsan Aghaei , Ehab Al-Shaer , Waseem Shadid , Xi Niu

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

Many public sources of cyber threat and vulnerability information exist to help defend cyber systems. This paper links MITRE's ATT&CK MATRIX of Tactics and Techniques, NIST's Common Weakness Enumerations (CWE), Common Vulnerabilities and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Erik Hemberg , Jonathan Kelly , Michal Shlapentokh-Rothman , Bryn Reinstadler , Katherine Xu , Nick Rutar , Una-May O'Reilly

The identification of vulnerabilities is an important element in the software development life cycle to ensure the security of software. While vulnerability identification based on the source code is a well studied field, the identification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Andreas Schaad , Dominik Binder

Vulnerability databases, such as the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), offer detailed descriptions of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), but often lack information on their real-world impact, such as the tactics, techniques,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Anders Mølmen Høst , Pierre Lison , Leon Moonen
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