Did You Forkget It? Detecting One-Day Vulnerabilities in Open-source ForksWith Global History Analysis
Fork-propagated one-day vulnerabilities evade standard dependency tracking; this global-history analysis approach addresses a blind spot that conventional SCA tools miss—critical for CRA and SBOM compliance.
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arXiv:2511.05097v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tracking vulnerabilities inherited from third-party open-source software is a well-known challenge, often addressed by tracing the threads of dependency information. However, vulnerabilities can also propagate through forking: a code repository forked after the introduction of a vulnerability, but before it is patched, may remain vulnerable long after the vulnerability has been fixed in the initial repository. History analysis approaches are u
Editorial Analysis
The EU Cyber Resilience Act demands comprehensive vulnerability handling; forks that silently inherit flaws represent a compliance and security gap that current SBOM tooling does not cover.
Extend SCA tooling to include fork-lineage analysis so inherited one-day vulnerabilities appear in SBOM reports and remediation queues.
Code forks can silently inherit known vulnerabilities that standard supply-chain tools miss—closing this gap is essential for CRA compliance.
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