Chasing One-Day Vulnerabilities across Open Source Forks

Tracking vulnerabilities inherited from third-party open-source components is a well-known challenge, often addressed by tracing the threads of dependency information. However, vulnerabilities can also propagate through forking: a repository forked after the introduction of a vulnerability, but...

An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Python Packages and Their Detection

In the rapidly evolving software development landscape, Python stands out for its simplicity, versatility, and extensive ecosystem. Python packages, as units of organization, reusability, and distribution, have become a pressing concern, highlighted by the considerable number of vulnerability...