Mapping NVD Records to Their VFCs: How Hard is it?Huu Hung Nguyen, Duc Manh Tran, Yiran Cheng, Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Ratnadira Widyasari, Shar Lwin Khin, Ouh Eng Lieh, Ting Zhang, David Lohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09702
Mapping NVD Records to Their VFCs: How Hard is it?Mapping National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records to vulnerability-fixing commits (VFCs) is crucial for vulnerability analysis but challenging due to sparse explicit links in NVD references.This study explores this mapping's feasibility through an empirical approach. Manual analysis of NVD references showed Git references enable over 86% success, while non-Git references achieve under 14%. Using these findings, we built an automated pipeline extracting 31,942 VFCs from 20,360 NVD records (8…