CVE-LLM : Ontology-Assisted Automatic Vulnerability Evaluation Using Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Ghosh, Rikhiya, von Stockhausen, Hans-Martin, Schmitt, Martin, Vasile, George Marica, Karn, Sanjeev Kumar, Farri, Oladimeji
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Published: 2025
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author Ghosh, Rikhiya
von Stockhausen, Hans-Martin
Schmitt, Martin
Vasile, George Marica
Karn, Sanjeev Kumar
Farri, Oladimeji
author_facet Ghosh, Rikhiya
von Stockhausen, Hans-Martin
Schmitt, Martin
Vasile, George Marica
Karn, Sanjeev Kumar
Farri, Oladimeji
contents The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) publishes over a thousand new vulnerabilities monthly, with a projected 25 percent increase in 2024, highlighting the crucial need for rapid vulnerability identification to mitigate cybersecurity attacks and save costs and resources. In this work, we propose using large language models (LLMs) to learn vulnerability evaluation from historical assessments of medical device vulnerabilities in a single manufacturer's portfolio. We highlight the effectiveness and challenges of using LLMs for automatic vulnerability evaluation and introduce a method to enrich historical data with cybersecurity ontologies, enabling the system to understand new vulnerabilities without retraining the LLM. Our LLM system integrates with the in-house application - Cybersecurity Management System (CSMS) - to help Siemens Healthineers (SHS) product cybersecurity experts efficiently assess the vulnerabilities in our products. Also, we present guidelines for efficient integration of LLMs into the cybersecurity tool.
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spellingShingle CVE-LLM : Ontology-Assisted Automatic Vulnerability Evaluation Using Large Language Models
Ghosh, Rikhiya
von Stockhausen, Hans-Martin
Schmitt, Martin
Vasile, George Marica
Karn, Sanjeev Kumar
Farri, Oladimeji
Computation and Language
Cryptography and Security
The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) publishes over a thousand new vulnerabilities monthly, with a projected 25 percent increase in 2024, highlighting the crucial need for rapid vulnerability identification to mitigate cybersecurity attacks and save costs and resources. In this work, we propose using large language models (LLMs) to learn vulnerability evaluation from historical assessments of medical device vulnerabilities in a single manufacturer's portfolio. We highlight the effectiveness and challenges of using LLMs for automatic vulnerability evaluation and introduce a method to enrich historical data with cybersecurity ontologies, enabling the system to understand new vulnerabilities without retraining the LLM. Our LLM system integrates with the in-house application - Cybersecurity Management System (CSMS) - to help Siemens Healthineers (SHS) product cybersecurity experts efficiently assess the vulnerabilities in our products. Also, we present guidelines for efficient integration of LLMs into the cybersecurity tool.
title CVE-LLM : Ontology-Assisted Automatic Vulnerability Evaluation Using Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15932