3 papers
cs.CR2026
GitHub Engagement Signals for CVE Prioritization: The GitHub Popularity Metric (GPM)
Jafar Akhoundali, Kristian Rietveld, Olga Gadyatskaya
Attackers can compromise multiple systems with a single vulnerability, while defenders need to fix all security weaknesses in their systems. This asymmetry puts defenders at a disa…
cs.SE2026
A Study of Cursorrules Files in GitHub Open Source Projects
Shuang Sun, Jafar Akhoundali, Arina Kudriavtseva +2
Prompts are the primary mechanism for communicating with AI agents, and they directly influence the quality and reliability of AI-generated code. As AI-assisted programming becomes…
cs.CR2025
Eradicating the Unseen: Detecting, Exploiting, and Remediating a Path Traversal Vulnerability across GitHub
Jafar Akhoundali, Hamidreza Hamidi, Kristian Rietveld +1
Vulnerabilities in open-source software can cause cascading effects in the modern digital ecosystem. It is especially worrying if these vulnerabilities repeat across many projects,…