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Binary Static Code Analysis (BSCA) is a pivotal area in software vulnerability research, focusing on the precise localization of vulnerabilities within binary executables. Despite advancements in BSCA techniques, there is a notable scarcity…

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Performance bugs challenge software development, degrading performance and wasting computational resources. Software developers invest substantial effort in addressing these issues. Curating these performance bugs can offer valuable…

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While attackers often distribute malware to victims via open-source, community-driven package repositories, these repositories do not currently run automated malware detection systems. In this work, we explore the security goals of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Duc-Ly Vu , Zachary Newman , John Speed Meyers

Detecting defects and vulnerabilities in the early stage has long been a challenge in software engineering. Static analysis, a technique that inspects code without execution, has emerged as a key strategy to address this challenge. Among…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zhengyao Liu , Xitong Zhong , Xingjing Deng , Shuo Hong , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun

As Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are increasingly being employed in safety-critical applications, it is important that they behave reliably in the face of hardware errors. Transient hardware errors may percolate undesirable state…

AI infra has become a shared execution layer for model training, deployment, and agent orchestration. Because many projects reimplement similar model-centric workflows, a vulnerability disclosed in one repository can recur as a variant in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tian Dong , Yanjun Chen , Shoufeng Zhang , Huaien Zhang , Yunlong Lyu , Keke Lian , Dong Zhang , Shaofeng Li , Hao Chen

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…

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A widespread belief in the blockchain security community is that automated techniques are only good for detecting shallow bugs, typically of small value. In this paper, we present the techniques and insights that have led us to repeatable…

The quantity and quality of vulnerability datasets are essential for developing deep learning solutions to vulnerability-related tasks. Due to the limited availability of vulnerabilities, a common approach to building such datasets is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Zeyu Gao , Junlin Zhou , Bolun Zhang , Yi He , Chao Zhang , Yuxin Cui , Hao Wang

A system vulnerability analysis technique (SVAT) for complex mission critical systems (CMCS) was developed in response to the need to be able to conduct penetration testing on large industrial systems which cannot be taken offline or risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Matthew Tassava , Cameron Kolodjski , Jeremy Straub

Modern software heavily relies on the use of components. Those components are usually published in central repositories, and managed by build systems via dependencies. Due to issues around vulnerabilities, licenses and the propagation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jens Dietrich , Shawn Rasheed , Alexander Jordan , Tim White

The rise of supply chain attacks via malicious Python packages demands robust detection solutions. Current approaches, however, overlook two critical challenges: robustness against adversarial source code transformations and adaptability to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Biagio Montaruli , Luca Compagna , Serena Elisa Ponta , Davide Balzarotti

Machine learning based malware detectors become obsolete over time due to concept drift in benign and malware applications. Recent methods rely on fully labeled data and use hierarchical contrastive loss (HCL) with active learning to…

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is increasingly adopted for tool-integrated LLM agents, but its multi-layer design and third-party server ecosystem expand risks across tool metadata, untrusted outputs, cross-tool flows, multimodal inputs, and…

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There is an increasing trend to mine vulnerabilities from software repositories and use machine learning techniques to automatically detect software vulnerabilities. A fundamental but unresolved research question is: how do different…

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Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools are integral to modern DevSecOps pipelines, yet tools like CodeQL, Semgrep, and SonarQube remain fundamentally constrained: they require expert-crafted queries, generate excessive false…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 George Tsigkourakos , Constantinos Patsakis

Cloud computing systems fail in complex and unforeseen ways due to unexpected combinations of events and interactions among hardware and software components. These failures are especially problematic when they are silent, i.e., not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

The NPM ecosystem has become a primary target for software supply chain attacks, yet existing detection tools are evaluated in isolation on incompatible datasets, making cross-tool comparison unreliable. We conduct a benchmark-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenbo Guo , Zhongwen Chen , Zhengzi Xu , Chengwei Liu , Ming Kang , Shiwen Song , Chengyue Liu , Yijia Xu , Weisong Sun , Yang Liu

Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) encompasses a wide array of sub-optimal design and implementation choices reported in software artefacts (e.g., code comments and commit messages) by developers themselves. Such reports have been central…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Mojtaba Shahin , Mansooreh Zahedi , Sodiq Quadri , Ricardo Scandariato

How to find memory safety bugs efficiently when navigating a symbolic execution tree that suffers from path explosion? Existing solutions either adopt path search heuristics to maximize coverage rate or chopped symbolic execution to skip…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Haoxin Tu , Lingxiao Jiang , Marcel Böhme