ASE 2025
Sun 16 - Thu 20 November 2025 Seoul, South Korea
Wed 19 Nov 2025 11:00 - 11:15 at Grand Hall 6 - Student Research Competition Presentations

Timely identification of issue reports reflecting software vulnerabilities is crucial, particularly for Internet-of-Things (IoT) where analysis is slower than non-IoT systems. While Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLMs) detect vulnerability-indicating issues in non-IoT systems, their IoT use remains unexplored. We are the first to tackle this problem by proposing two approaches: (1) combining ML and LLMs with Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to detect vulnerability-indicating issues of 21 Eclipse IoT projects and (2) fine-tuning a pre-trained BERT masked language model on 11,000 GitHub issues for classifying \vul. Our best performance belongs to a Support Vector Machine (SVM) trained on BERT NLP features, achieving an Area Under the receiver operator characteristic Curve (AUC) of 0.65. Our fine-tuned BERT achieves 0.26 accuracy, emphasizing the importance of exposing all data during training. Our contributions set the stage for accurately detecting vulnerabilities of IoT systems from their issues, similar to non-IoT systems.

Wed 19 Nov

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11:00 - 12:30
Student Research Competition PresentationsStudent Research Competition at Grand Hall 6
11:00
15m
Talk
Detecting Vulnerabilities from Issue Reports for Internet-of-Things
Student Research Competition
Sogol Masoumzadeh Mcgill University
11:15
15m
Talk
Dynamic Testing of GUI Exercises in Headless Environments
Student Research Competition
Benjamin Schmitz Technical University of Munich
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
First-Order Quantified Separator in Alloy Analyzer
Student Research Competition
11:45
15m
Talk
Understanding Uncertainty In LLMs
Student Research Competition
Chandan Kumar Sah Beihang University
12:00
15m
Talk
Verification and Classification of Exploits for Node.js Vulnerabilities
Student Research Competition
Sungmin Park Korea University
12:15
15m
Panel
SRC Panel Discussion
Student Research Competition