Not The End of Story: An Evaluation of ChatGPT-Driven Vulnerability Description Mappings

Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Zhenghang Xiao, Jianwei Zhuge, Rui Zhou


Abstract
As the number of vulnerabilities increases day by day, security management requires more and more structured data. In addition to textual descriptions of vulnerabilities, security engineers must classify and assess vulnerabilities and clarify their associated techniques. Vulnerability Description Mapping (VDM) refers to mapping vulnerabilities to Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification, ATT&CK Techniques, and other classifications. Accurate VDM is necessary to reduce the pressure of security management and improve the speed of security emergency response. ChatGPT is the latest state-of-the-art closed-source conversational large language model (LLM), which performs excellently on many tasks. This paper explores the application of closed-source LLMs to real-world security management scenarios by evaluating ChatGPT’s performance on VDM tasks. The results show that although ChatGPT may be close to the level of human experts on some tasks, it still cannot replace the critical role of professional security engineers in vulnerability analysis. In a word, closed-source LLM is not the end of story.
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2023.findings-acl.229
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3724–3731
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10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.229
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Xin Liu, Yuan Tan, Zhenghang Xiao, Jianwei Zhuge, and Rui Zhou. 2023. Not The End of Story: An Evaluation of ChatGPT-Driven Vulnerability Description Mappings. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 3724–3731, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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