Building a Benchmark of Vulnerable Source Code

Future research topic extracting vulnerable code fragments from patch files to build a reusable benchmark for vulnerability research.

Vulnerability BenchmarkPatch ExtractionCVE Corpus

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Open for BS SupervisionCOMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore

Supervision

Dr. Junaid AkramLead Supervisor

Institution

Source Security ResearchCOMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus

Supervision prerequisites

Recommended Prerequisites

Strong programming and software engineering skills.

PythonGit APIC/C++JavaDocker

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Last Verified: July 2026

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