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BERT models compared for CVE-to-CWE mapping in cybersecurity research

A new research paper explores the effectiveness of different BERT models for mapping Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) to Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) categories. The study compares multi-class and multi-label classification approaches using BERT Base, SecureBERT, and CySecBERT. Results indicate that multi-class training generally yields higher macro-F1 scores, though the gap narrows with smaller label spaces. The research also suggests that the structure of the CWE taxonomy significantly influences classification errors, more so than the choice of encoder. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more automated and accurate vulnerability analysis in cybersecurity by improving how AI models interpret and categorize security weaknesses.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing research findings on machine learning models for cybersecurity tasks.

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BERT models compared for CVE-to-CWE mapping in cybersecurity research

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ana Schwengber Kelm, Christian Bockermann, J\"org Frochte ·

    Multi-Class vs. Multi-Label BERT for CVE-to-CWE Mapping: How Taxonomy Structure Shapes the Errors

    arXiv:2607.07573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assigning Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) categories to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) records remains an important but largely manual step in vulnerability analysis. We study this task as a text classification problem…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jörg Frochte ·

    Multi-Class vs. Multi-Label BERT for CVE-to-CWE Mapping: How Taxonomy Structure Shapes the Errors

    Assigning Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) categories to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) records remains an important but largely manual step in vulnerability analysis. We study this task as a text classification problem and compare two modelling choices: a \emph{mult…