ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 18 Nov 2025 14:10 - 14:20 at Grand Hall 5 - Security 2

Software security faces a persistent gap: static analysis tools detect vulnerabilities effectively, but their technical outputs remain inaccessible to most developers. This leads to mounting security debt, as organizations must rely on security specialists for remediation, creating bottlenecks that delay fixes.

This paper proposes an interpretability convention and a modular workflow that transforms raw static analyzer outputs into clear, actionable vulnerability reports for all developers, not just security experts. Our tool, SECGen, automates the workflow by parsing static analyzer outputs and restructuring them into clear, developer-friendly reports based on our convention, and enforcing compliance through automated validation.

We validated our approach through a user study with 25 developers, comparing our interpretable reports to other state-of-the-art static analyzer outputs. The results suggest that developers using interpretable reports detect, understand and fix vulnerabilities more effectively, requiring only 67% of the time typically spent with traditional reports while writing more correct fixes. Key reasons for this include participants’ preference for structured reports, with clear vulnerability descriptions and actionable fix suggestions.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 18 Nov

Displayed time zone: Seoul change

14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
Towards Generalizable Instruction Vulnerability Prediction via LLM-Enhanced Code Representation
Research Papers
Bao Wen Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jingjing Gu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jingxuan Zhang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Pengfei Yu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Yanchao Zhao Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
14:10
10m
Talk
Interpretable Vulnerability Detection Reports
Research Papers
Claudia Mamede Carnegie Mellon University, Jose Campos FEUP & LASIGE, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, Rui Abreu Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
14:20
10m
Talk
Security Debt in LLM Agent Applications: A Measurement Study of Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Trade-offs
Research Papers
Zhuoxiang Shen Fudan University, Jiarun Dai Fudan University, Yuan Zhang Fudan University, Min Yang Fudan University
14:30
10m
Talk
Altered Histories in Version Control System Repositories: Evidence from the Trenches
Research Papers
Solal Rapaport Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Laurent Pautet Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Samuel Tardieu Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Stefano Zacchiroli LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
Pre-print
14:40
10m
Talk
Lares: LLM-driven Code Slice Semantic Search for Patch Presence Testing
Research Papers
Siyuan Li University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Yaowen Zheng Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Li Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jingdong Guo Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;, Chaopeng Dong Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;, Chunpeng Yan Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Weijie Wang Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Yimo Ren Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Limin Sun Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hongsong Zhu Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
14:50
10m
Talk
PoliCond: Condition-Aware Ontology-Driven LLMs for Privacy Policy Analysis
Research Papers
Yalin Feng Nanjing University, Yifei Lu State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China, Minxue Pan Nanjing University
15:00
10m
Talk
Understanding Resource Injection Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Ecosystems
Research Papers
Defang Bo Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences and School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jie Lu Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Feng Li Key Laboratory of Network Assessment Technology, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; School of CyberSpace Security at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Jingting Chen Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences and School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jinchen Wang Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences and School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chendong Yu Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yeting Li Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wei Huo Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences
15:10
10m
Talk
LLM-Powered Static Binary Taint Analysis
Journal-First Track
Puzhuo Liu Ant Group & Tsinghua University, Chengnian Sun University of Waterloo, Yaowen Zheng Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xuan Feng Independent Researcher, Chuan Qin Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuncheng Wang Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences; School of Cyber Security, UCAS Beijing, China, Zhenyang Xu University of Waterloo, Zhi Li Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Peng Di Ant Group & UNSW Sydney, Yu Jiang Tsinghua university, Limin Sun Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
15:20
10m
Talk
Stealthy Backdoor Attack for Code Models
Journal-First Track
Zhou Yang University of Alberta, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute , Bowen Xu North Carolina State University, Jie M. Zhang King's College London, Hong Jin Kang University of Sydney, Jieke Shi Singapore Management University, Junda He Singapore Management University, David Lo Singapore Management University