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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

Software vulnerabilities exist in open-source software (OSS), and the developers who discover these vulnerabilities may submit issue reports (IRs) to describe their details. Security practitioners need to spend a lot of time manually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ziyou Jiang , Mingyang Li , Guowei Yang , Lin Shi , Qing Wang

Accurate identification of software vulnerabilities is crucial for system integrity. Vulnerability datasets, often derived from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) or directly from GitHub, are essential for training machine learning…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks, yet their application in hardware security verification remains limited due to scarcity of publicly available hardware description…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Touseef Hasan , Blessing Airehenbuwa , Nitin Pundir , Souvika Sarkar , Ujjwal Guin

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for Automated Program Repair (APR), yet their effectiveness on security vulnerabilities remains poorly characterized. This study analyzes 319 LLM-generated security patchesacross 64 Java…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Amir Al-Maamari

As software becomes increasingly complex and prone to vulnerabilities, automated vulnerability detection is critically important, yet challenging. Given the significant successes of large language models (LLMs) in various tasks, there is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Zeyu Gao , Hao Wang , Yuchen Zhou , Wenyu Zhu , Chao Zhang

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

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

Open-source software vulnerability patch detection is a critical component for maintaining software security and ensuring software supply chain integrity. Traditional manual detection methods face significant scalability challenges when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoran Xu , Chen Zhi , Junxiao Han , Xinkui Zhao , Jianwei Yin , Shuiguang Deng

Purpose: In the field of vulnerability repair, previous research has leveraged pretrained models and LLM-based prompt engineering, among which LLM-based approaches show better generalizability and achieve the best performance. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruoke Wang , Zongjie Li , Cuiyun Gao , Chaozheng Wang , Yang Xiao , Xuan Wang

Recent results of machine learning for automatic vulnerability detection (ML4VD) have been very promising. Given only the source code of a function $f$, ML4VD techniques can decide if $f$ contains a security flaw with up to 70% accuracy.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Niklas Risse , Marcel Böhme

Open-source AI libraries are foundational to modern AI systems, yet they present significant, underexamined risks spanning security, licensing, maintenance, supply chain integrity, and regulatory compliance. We introduce LibVulnWatch, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zekun Wu , Seonglae Cho , Umar Mohammed , Cristian Munoz , Kleyton Costa , Xin Guan , Theo King , Ze Wang , Emre Kazim , Adriano Koshiyama

AI-based solutions demonstrate remarkable results in identifying vulnerabilities in software, but research has consistently found that this performance does not generalize to unseen codebases. In this paper, we specifically investigate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Rijha Safdar , Danyail Mateen , Syed Taha Ali , M. Umer Ashfaq , Wajahat Hussain

Automatically locating vulnerable statements in source code is crucial to assure software security and alleviate developers' debugging efforts. This becomes even more important in today's software ecosystem, where vulnerable code can flow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Yangruibo Ding , Sahil Suneja , Yunhui Zheng , Jim Laredo , Alessandro Morari , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

As software vulnerabilities increase in both volume and complexity, vendors often struggle to repair them promptly. Automated vulnerability repair has emerged as a promising solution to reduce the burden of manual debugging and fixing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Bo Lin , Shangwen Wang , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao

Software vulnerabilities (SVs) have emerged as a prevalent and critical concern for safety-critical security systems. This has spurred significant advancements in utilizing AI-based methods, including machine learning and deep learning, for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Van Nguyen , Surya Nepal , Tingmin Wu , Xingliang Yuan , Carsten Rudolph

Software vulnerabilities can cause numerous problems, including crashes, data loss, and security breaches. These issues greatly compromise quality and can negatively impact the market adoption of software applications and systems.…

This paper presents the first empirical study of a vulnerability detection and fix tool with professional software developers on real projects that they own. We implemented DeepVulGuard, an IDE-integrated tool based on state-of-the-art…

Understanding software vulnerabilities and their resolutions is crucial for securing modern software systems. This study presents a novel traceability model that links a pair of sentences describing at least one of the three types of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Amiao Gao , Zenong Zhang , Simin Wang , Liguo Huang , Shiyi Wei , Vincent Ng

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automated vulnerability detection and repair in software systems. This paper investigates the performance of GPT-4o in repairing Java vulnerabilities from a widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Gábor Antal , Bence Bogenfürst , Rudolf Ferenc , Péter Hegedűs