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VICBench: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Code Vulnerability Detection
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- VICBench is a benchmark dataset of 100 verified vulnerability-inducing commits across Python, Java, and C++, covering 48 CWE types for evaluating vulnerability detection tools.
- Why it matters
- Security engineers and tool developers need standardized benchmarks to evaluate how well their vulnerability detection approaches work on real-world code.
- Watch out
- State-of-the-art detection algorithms achieve only 33-40% F1 scores on this benchmark, indicating significant manual effort remains necessary for practical vulnerability detection.
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