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New VICBench benchmark evaluates code vulnerability detection tools · 2 sources tracked

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Researchers have introduced VICBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate code vulnerability detection tools. The benchmark comprises 100 verified vulnerability-inducing commits (VICs) across 88 projects in Python, Java, and C++, covering 48 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) types. VICBench features complex, real-world vulnerability fixes and their corresponding VICs, which are significantly larger than those in previous datasets. Evaluations using VICBench indicate that current state-of-the-art algorithms like V-SZZ and LLM4SZZ achieve only moderate F1 scores, highlighting the need for further development in automated vulnerability detection. AI

IMPACT This benchmark will enable more robust evaluation of AI-driven code vulnerability detection, potentially accelerating the development of more effective security tools.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic benchmark for evaluating AI models in code vulnerability detection.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jin Lu, Xuening Han, Yang Zhong, Lin Tan, Kevin Luo, Andrew Gacek, Neha Rungta ·

    VICBench: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Code Vulnerability Detection

    arXiv:2608.12246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating security vulnerability detection tools requires benchmark datasets with vulnerability-inducing commits (VICs) - the commits that first introduce vulnerabilities into codebases. VICs are essential for determining the ful…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    VICBench: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Code Vulnerability Detection

    Evaluating security vulnerability detection tools requires benchmark datasets with vulnerability-inducing commits (VICs) - the commits that first introduce vulnerabilities into codebases. VICs are essential for determining the full range of vulnerable software versions. Existing …

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