A survey on data-driven software vulnerability assessment and prioritization

THM Le, H Chen, MA Babar - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Software Vulnerabilities (SVs) are increasing in complexity and scale, posing great security
risks to many software systems. Given the limited resources in practice, SV assessment and …

An empirical comparison of commercial and open‐source web vulnerability scanners

R Amankwah, J Chen, PK Kudjo… - Software: Practice and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Web vulnerability scanners (WVSs) are tools that can detect security vulnerabilities in web
services. Although both commercial and open‐source WVSs exist, their vulnerability …

Automated event extraction of CVE descriptions

Y Wei, L Bo, X Sun, B Li, T Zhang, C Tao - Information and Software …, 2023 - Elsevier
Context: The dramatically increasing number of vulnerabilities makes manual vulnerability
analysis increasingly more difficult. Automatic extraction of vulnerability information can help …

Efficient feature selection for static analysis vulnerability prediction

K Filus, P Boryszko, J Domańska, M Siavvas… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Common software vulnerabilities can result in severe security breaches, financial losses,
and reputation deterioration and require research effort to improve software security. The …

An automatic software vulnerability classification framework using term frequency-inverse gravity moment and feature selection

J Chen, PK Kudjo, S Mensah, SA Brown… - Journal of Systems and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Vulnerability classification is an important activity in software development and software
quality maintenance. A typical vulnerability classification model usually involves a stage of …

On the use of fine-grained vulnerable code statements for software vulnerability assessment models

THM Le, MA Babar - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Many studies have developed Machine Learning (ML) approaches to detect Software
Vulnerabilities (SVs) in functions and fine-grained code statements that cause such SVs …

DeKeDVer: A deep learning-based multi-type software vulnerability classification framework using vulnerability description and source code

Y Dong, Y Tang, X Cheng, Y Yang - Information and Software Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Context: Software vulnerabilities have confused software developers for a long time.
Vulnerability classification is thus crucial, through which we can know the specific type of …

A survey on automated software vulnerability detection using machine learning and deep learning

NS Harzevili, AB Belle, J Wang, S Wang, Z Ming… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Software vulnerability detection is critical in software security because it identifies potential
bugs in software systems, enabling immediate remediation and mitigation measures to be …

Automated unearthing of dangerous issue reports

S Pan, J Zhou, FR Cogo, X **a, L Bao, X Hu… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) process is commonly adopted for open
source software (OSS) vulnerability management, which suggests to privately report the …

The random neural network as a bonding model for software vulnerability prediction

K Filus, M Siavvas, J Domańska, E Gelenbe - Symposium on modelling …, 2020 - Springer
Software vulnerability prediction is an important and active area of research where new
methods are needed to build accurate and efficient tools that can identify security issues …