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Exploit Development

Exploit Development is a specialized discipline within penetration testing that involves the systematic creation of precise software code or scripts designed to leverage identified vulnerabilities in systems or applications, distinguishing it from general vulnerability assessment by focusing on the practical implementation of attacks to demonstrate exploitability.

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19K

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914

Authors

295

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2017–2026

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Publications

307

Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and Signature Generation of Exploits on Commodity Software

James Newsome, Dawn Song · Figshare · 2018 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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On the effectiveness of address-space randomization

Hovav Shacham, Matthew J. Page, Ben Pfaff et al. · 2004 · 861 citations

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SmartCheck

Sergei Tikhomirov, Ekaterina Voskresenskaya, Ivan Ivanitskiy et al. · 2018 · 652 citations · Full text

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A First Step Towards Automated Detection of Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities.

David Wagner, Jeffrey S. Foster, Alex Aiken · 2000 · 614 citations

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Unleashing Mayhem on Binary Code

Sang Kil, Thanassis Avgerinos, Alexandre Rebert et al. · 2012 · 521 citations

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Authors

914

  1. DB
    David Brumley

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    9 publications · 1.7K citations

    9

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  2. XX
    Xinyu Xing

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    6 publications · 199 citations

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  3. HJ
    Helen J. Wang

    Microsoft (United States), United States

    6 publications · 669 citations

    6

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  4. DS
    Dawn Song

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    6 publications · 1.8K citations

    6

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  5. TH
    Thorsten Holz

    Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

    5 publications · 147 citations

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Institutions

295

  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    14 h-index

    38 publications

    8.9K citations

  2. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    8 h-index

    20 publications

    718 citations

  3. Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    19 publications

    2.2K citations

  4. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    7 h-index

    18 publications

    920 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    1.4K citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    6 h-index

    20 publications

    7.4K citations

  7. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    6 h-index

    17 publications

    516 citations

  8. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    6 h-index

    15 publications

    1.9K citations

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Venues

  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 12 publications · 186 citations

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  2. USENIX Security Symposium

    Conference · 7 publications · 591 citations

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  3. IEEE Security & Privacy

    6 publications · 319 citations

    6

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

    TDSC · 6 publications · 219 citations

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  5. Figshare

    Repository · 5 publications · 1.9K citations

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