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Increasing complexity in software systems places a growing demand on reasoning tools that unlock vulnerabilities manifest in source code. Many current approaches focus on vulnerability analysis as a classifying task, oversimplifying the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ala Jararweh , Michael Adams , Avinash Sahu , Abdullah Mueen , Afsah Anwar

Software vulnerabilities (SVs) pose a critical threat to safety-critical systems, driving the adoption of AI-based approaches such as machine learning and deep learning for software vulnerability detection. Despite promising results, most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Van Nguyen , Surya Nepal , Xingliang Yuan , Tingmin Wu , Fengchao Chen , Carsten Rudolph

In the context of the rising interest in code language models (code LMs) and vulnerability detection, we study the effectiveness of code LMs for detecting vulnerabilities. Our analysis reveals significant shortcomings in existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yangruibo Ding , Yanjun Fu , Omniyyah Ibrahim , Chawin Sitawarin , Xinyun Chen , Basel Alomair , David Wagner , Baishakhi Ray , Yizheng Chen

Code Pre-trained Models (CodePTMs) based vulnerability detection have achieved promising results over recent years. However, these models struggle to generalize as they typically learn superficial mapping from source code to labels instead…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xiaohu Du , Ming Wen , Jiahao Zhu , Zifan Xie , Bin Ji , Huijun Liu , Xuanhua Shi , Hai Jin

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to automate real-world vulnerability detection due to two key limitations: the heterogeneity of vulnerability patterns undermines the effectiveness of a single unified model, and manual prompt…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zihan Wu , Jie Xu , Yun Peng , Chun Yong Chong , Xiaohua Jia

Automated vulnerability detection is crucial for enhancing software security by identifying potential flaws that attackers could exploit, thereby reducing the reliance on labor-intensive manual code audits. Recent advancements have shifted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xin Peng , Bo Lin , Jing Wang , Xiaoling Li , Jun Ma , Jie Yu , Xiaoguang Mao , Shangwen Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in various tasks, including those requiring human-level intelligence, such as vulnerability detection. However, recent efforts to use LLMs for vulnerability detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuqiang Sun , Daoyuan Wu , Yue Xue , Han Liu , Wei Ma , Lyuye Zhang , Yang Liu , Yingjiu Li

Software vulnerability detection plays a critical role in ensuring system security, where real-world auditing requires not only determining whether a function is vulnerable but also pinpointing the specific lines responsible. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wenxin Tang , Wenbin Li , Junliang Liu , Jingyu Xiao , Xi Xiao , Mingzhe Liu , Jinlong Yang , Xuan Liu , Yuehe Ma , Wang Luo , Qing Li , Lei Wang , Peng Xiangli

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

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in software vulnerability detection, yet their reasoning capabilities remain unreliable. We propose R2Vul, a method that combines reinforcement learning from AI feedback (RLAIF)…

The use of ML in cybersecurity has long been impaired by generalization issues: Models that work well in controlled scenarios fail to maintain performance in production. The root cause often lies in ML algorithms learning superficial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jianan Huang , Rodolfo V. Valentim , Luca Vassio , Matteo Boffa , Marco Mellia , Idilio Drago , Dario Rossi

We propose and release a new vulnerable source code dataset. We curate the dataset by crawling security issue websites, extracting vulnerability-fixing commits and source codes from the corresponding projects. Our new dataset contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yizheng Chen , Zhoujie Ding , Lamya Alowain , Xinyun Chen , David Wagner

Large Language Models (LLMs) have strong capabilities in code comprehension, but fine-tuning costs and semantic alignment issues limit their project-specific optimization; conversely, code models such CodeBERT are easy to fine-tune, but it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ziliang Wang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Yingfei Xiong , Jia Li , Meng Yan , Zhi Jin

Deep Learning (DL)-based methods have proven to be effective for software vulnerability detection, with a potential for substantial productivity enhancements for detecting vulnerabilities. Current methods mainly focus on detecting single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xin-Cheng Wen , Xinchen Wang , Yujia Chen , Ruida Hu , David Lo , Cuiyun Gao

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate considerable proficiency in numerous coding-related tasks; however, their capabilities in detecting software vulnerabilities remain limited. This limitation primarily stems from two factors: (1) the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xin-Cheng Wen , Yijun Yang , Cuiyun Gao , Yang Xiao , Deheng Ye

Language models (LMs) show promise for vulnerability detection but struggle with long, real-world code due to sparse and uncertain vulnerability locations. These issues, exacerbated by token limits, often cause models to miss…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Xinran Zheng , Xingzhi Qian , Huichi Zhou , Shuo Yang , Yiling He , Suman Jana , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Vulnerability detection methods based on deep learning (DL) have shown strong performance on benchmark datasets, yet their real-world effectiveness remains underexplored. Recent work suggests that both graph neural network (GNN)-based and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chaomeng Lu , Bert Lagaisse

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in software vulnerability detection, particularly on function-level benchmarks like Devign and BigVul. However, real-world detection requires interprocedural analysis, as vulnerabilities often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Alperen Yildiz , Sin G. Teo , Yiling Lou , Yebo Feng , Chong Wang , Dinil M. Divakaran

We present VulStyle, a multi-modal software vulnerability detection model that jointly encodes function-level source code, non-terminal Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) structure, and code stylometry (CStyle) features. Prior work in code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chidera Biringa , Ajmal Abbas , Vishnu Selvaraj , Gokhan Kul
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