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20122022
most citedImpact assessment for vulnerabilities in open-source software libraries

100 citations · 218 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2022

Towards the Detection of Malicious Java Packages

Piergiorgio Ladisa, Henrik Plate, Matias Martinez +2

Open-source software supply chain attacks aim at infecting downstream users by poisoning open-source packages. The common way of consuming such artifacts is through package reposit…

cs.CR2022

Taxonomy of Attacks on Open-Source Software Supply Chains

Piergiorgio Ladisa, Henrik Plate, Matias Martinez +1

The widespread dependency on open-source software makes it a fruitful target for malicious actors, as demonstrated by recurring attacks. The complexity of today's open-source suppl…

cs.SE2021

The Used, the Bloated, and the Vulnerable: Reducing the Attack Surface of an Industrial Application

Serena Elisa Ponta, Wolfram Fischer, Henrik Plate +1

Software reuse may result in software bloat when significant portions of application dependencies are effectively unused. Several tools exist to remove unused (byte)code from an ap…

cs.SE2021★ 11 cited

VulnEx: Exploring Open-Source Software Vulnerabilities in Large Development Organizations to Understand Risk Exposure

Frederik L. Dennig, Eren Cakmak, Henrik Plate +1

The prevalent usage of open-source software (OSS) has led to an increased interest in resolving potential third-party security risks by fixing common vulnerabilities and exposures…

cs.SE2020★ 4 cited

Code-based Vulnerability Detection in Node.js Applications: How far are we?

Bodin Chinthanet, Serena Elisa Ponta, Henrik Plate +4

With one of the largest available collection of reusable packages, the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js is one of the most popular programming application. With recent work s…

cs.CR2020

Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks

Marc Ohm, Henrik Plate, Arnold Sykosch +1

A software supply chain attack is characterized by the injection of malicious code into a software package in order to compromise dependent systems further down the chain. Recent y…