TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wang, Zhe
AU  - Yan, Yu
AU  - Tong, Junqi
AU  - Lin, Yijun
AU  - Yin, Dechun
AU  - Zhao, Xiaoliang
PY  - 2026
TI  - VulSCP: Automated Code Vulnerability Detection via Sequential Convolution and Parallel Attention Mechanism
JO  - Computers, Materials & Continua
SN  - 1546-2218
SP  - 42
VL  - 88
IS  - 2
AB  - As software applications grow increasingly large and complex, traditional code vulnerability detection methods struggle with performance and efficiency. Although code visualization-based algorithms have demonstrated effectiveness in capturing sparse features and complex workflows in large-scale source code, their capacity to extract global semantic information and intricate long-range dependencies remains limited. Recent large language model (LLM)-based approaches have shown promising accuracy by leveraging rich contextual information, but their high computational cost often limits practical efficiency. To address these challenges, we propose VulSCP, a new framework that integrates sequential convolution with a parallel attention mechanism. Specifically, VulSCP first constructs a semantically weighted graph from the source code, then employs sequential convolution to extract local vulnerability-related features, and finally enhances the global feature representation through parallel attention. Experimental results on large-scale C/C++ function-level datasets show that VulSCP achieves an accuracy of 85.14% and a false positive rate of 17.25%, outperforming the best baseline in accuracy by 1.73 percentage points and reducing the false positive rate by 3.38 percentage points. Moreover, while maintaining high detection accuracy, VulSCP achieves a low average inference time of 1.89 s per sample, showing favorable efficiency compared with the evaluated LLM-based methods. These results suggest that VulSCP is a promising approach for vulnerability detection in large and complex software systems, offering a favorable balance between accuracy and efficiency. The source code of VulSCP is publicly available at https://github.com/Hwzx-ZeL/VulSCP.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2026.081155
DO  - 10.32604/cmc.2026.081155