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Security practitioners maintain vulnerability reports (e.g., GitHub Advisory) to help developers mitigate security risks. An important task for these databases is automatically extracting structured information mentioned in the report,…

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We present VulGuard, an automated tool designed to streamline the extraction, processing, and analysis of commits from GitHub repositories for Just-In-Time vulnerability prediction (JIT-VP) research. VulGuard automatically mines commit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Duong Nguyen , Manh Tran-Duc , Thanh Le-Cong , Triet Huynh Minh Le , M. Ali Babar , Quyet-Thang Huynh

Automated vulnerability patching is crucial for software security, and recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) present promising capabilities for automating this task. However, existing research has primarily assessed LLMs using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Aayush Garg , Zanis Ali Khan , Renzo Degiovanni , Qiang Tang

In recent years, more vulnerabilities have been discovered every day, while manual vulnerability repair requires specialized knowledge and is time-consuming. As a result, many detected or even published vulnerabilities remain unpatched,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Zhengyao Liu , Yunlong Ma , Jingxuan Xu , Junchen Ai , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun , Abhik Roychoudhury

Software vulnerabilities are a major cyber threat and it is important to detect them. One important approach to detecting vulnerabilities is to use deep learning while treating a program function as a whole, known as function-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhen Li , Ning Wang , Deqing Zou , Yating Li , Ruqian Zhang , Shouhuai Xu , Chao Zhang , Hai Jin

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have experienced significant advancements in recent years. However, their performance still falls short in tasks requiring deep visual perception, such as identifying subtle differences between images. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Qingguo Hu , Ante Wang , Jia Song , Delai Qiu , Qingsong Liu , Jinsong Su

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

Machine learning and Large language models (LLMs) for vulnerability detection has received significant attention in recent years. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art techniques show that LLMs are unsuccessful in even distinguishing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mohammed Sayagh , Mohammad Ghafari

Large Language Models(LLMs) have been actively integrated into modern software systems as critical components. LLM-in-the-loop vulnerabilities, where vulnerabilities are introduced by LLMs and their dependent downstream components, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yujie Ma , Jialin Rong , Chenxi Yang , Lili Quan , Xiaofei Xie , Yongqiang Lyu , Qiang Hu

Software Vulnerability (SV) assessment is a crucial process of determining different aspects of SVs (e.g., attack vectors and scope) for developers to effectively prioritize efforts in vulnerability mitigation. It presents a challenging and…

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Wireless key generation holds significant promise for establishing cryptographic keys in Next-Gen Internet of Vehicles (IoV) systems. However, existing approaches often face inefficiencies and performance limitations caused by frequent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Huanqi Yang , Weitao Xu

Software vulnerabilities are usually caused by design flaws or implementation errors, which could be exploited to cause damage to the security of the system. At present, the most commonly used method for detecting software vulnerabilities…

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Software vulnerabilities can result in catastrophic cyberattacks that increasingly threaten business operations. Consequently, ensuring the safety of software systems has become a paramount concern for both private and public sectors.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Boyu Zhang , Triet H. M. Le , M. Ali Babar

Software vulnerabilities are major risks to software systems. Recently, researchers have proposed many deep learning approaches to detect software vulnerabilities. However, their accuracy is limited in practice. One of the main causes is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zeru Cheng , Yanjing Yang , He Zhang , Lanxin Yang , Jinghao Hu , Jinwei Xu , Bohan Liu , Haifeng Shen

Recognizing vulnerabilities in stripped binary files presents a significant challenge in software security. Although some progress has been made in generating human-readable information from decompiled binary files with Large Language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Nasir Hussain , Haohan Chen , Chanh Tran , Philip Huang , Zhuohao Li , Pravir Chugh , William Chen , Ashish Kundu , Yuan Tian

Code vulnerability detection (CVD) is essential for addressing and preventing system security issues, playing a crucial role in ensuring software security. Previous learning-based vulnerability detection methods rely on either fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xuefeng Jiang , Lvhua Wu , Sheng Sun , Jia Li , Jingjing Xue , Yuwei Wang , Tingting Wu , Min Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for automated program repair (APR). However, existing LLM-based techniques primarily rely on coarse-grained external feedback (e.g.,test results) to guide iterative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiaolong Kong , Xiaofei Xie , Yiheng Xiong , Yuekun Wang , Jian Wang

LLMs have garnered considerable attention for their potential to streamline Automated Program Repair (APR). LLM-based approaches can either insert the correct code or directly generate patches when provided with buggy methods. However, most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qiong Feng , Xiaotian Ma , Jiayi Sheng , Ziyuan Feng , Wei Song , Peng Liang

Prompting LLMs with bug-related context (e.g., error messages, stack traces) improves automated program repair, but many bugs still remain unresolved. In real-world projects, developers often rely on broader repository and project-level…

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PHP's dominance in web development is undermined by security challenges: static analysis lacks semantic depth, causing high false positives; dynamic analysis is computationally expensive; and automated vulnerability localization suffers…

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