We constructed a newly large-scale and comprehensive C/C++ vulnerability dataset named MegaVul by crawling the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database and CVE-related open-source projects. Specifically, we collected all crawlable descriptive information of the vulnerabilities from the CVE database and extracted all vulnerability-related code changes from 28 Git-based websites. We adopt advanced tools to ensure the extracted code integrality and enrich the code with four different transformed representations. In total, MegaVul contains 17,380 vulnerabilities collected from 992 open-source repositories spanning 169 different vulnerability types disclosed from January 2006 to October 2023. Thus, MegaVul can be used for a variety of software security-related tasks including detecting vulnerabilities and assessing vulnerability severity. All information is well stored in the JSON format for easy usage. MegaVul is publicly available on GitHub and will be continuously updated. It also can be easily extended to other programming languages.
Chao Ni School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University, Liyu Shen Zhejiang University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University, Yan Zhu Zhejiang University, Shaohua Wang Central University of Finance and Economics
