Automating the Detection of Code Vulnerabilities by Analyzing GitHub Issues

In today's digital landscape, the importance of timely and accurate vulnerability detection has significantly increased. This paper presents a novel approach that leverages transformer-based models and machine learning techniques to automate the identification of software vulnerabilities by analyzing GitHub issues. We introduce a new dataset specifically designed for classifying GitHub issues relevant to vulnerability detection. We then examine various classification techniques to determine their effectiveness. The results demonstrate the potential of this approach for real-world application in early vulnerability detection, which could substantially reduce the window of exploitation for software vulnerabilities. This research makes a key contribution to the field by providing a scalable and computationally efficient framework for automated detection, enabling the prevention of compromised software usage before official notifications. This work has the potential to enhance the security of open-source software ecosystems.

Linnaeus: A highly reusable and adaptable ML based log classification pipeline

Logs are a common way to record detailed run-time information in software. As modern software systems evolve in scale and complexity, logs have become indispensable to understanding the internal states of the system. At the same time however, manually inspecting logs has become impractical. In recent times, there has been more emphasis on statistical and machine learning (ML) based methods for analyzing logs. While the results have shown promise, most of the literature focuses on algorithms and state-of-the-art (SOTA), while largely ignoring the practical aspects. In this paper we demonstrate our end-to-end log classification pipeline, Linnaeus. Besides showing the more traditional ML flow, we also demonstrate our solutions for adaptability and re-use, integration towards large scale software development processes, and how we cope with lack of labelled data. We hope Linnaeus can serve as a blueprint for, and inspire the integration of, various ML based solutions in other large scale industrial settings.