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With the increasing number of network security threats and the frequent occurrence of software vulnerability attacks, the effective management and large-scale retrieval of vulnerability data have become urgent needs. Existing vulnerability information is scattered across heterogeneous sources and is difficult to integrate, which in turn makes it hard for security analysts to quickly retrieve and analyze relevant security knowledge. To address this problem, this paper proposes a method to construct a vulnerability knowledge graph by integrating multi-source vulnerability data, combining graph embedding technology with large language model reasoning to aggregate, infer, and enrich vulnerability knowledge. Experiments demonstrated that our domain-tuned Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory–Conditional Random Field (BiLSTM-CRF) named entity recognition (NER), enhanced with a cybersecurity dictionary, achieved a 90.1% F1-score for entity extraction. For link prediction, a hybrid Graph Attention Network fused with GPT-3 reasoning boosted Hits1 by 0.137, Hits3 by 0.116, and Hits10 by 0.101 over the baseline. These results confirm that our approach markedly enhanced entity identification and relationship inference, yielding a more complete and dynamically updatable cybersecurity knowledge graph.

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Title
Dynamic Vulnerability Knowledge Graph Construction via Multi-Source Data Fusion and Large Language Model Reasoning
Author
Liu Ruitong 1 ; Xie Yaxuan 2 ; Dang Zexu 3 ; Hao Jinyi 3 ; Quan Xiaowen 4 ; Xiao Yongcai 5 ; Peng Chunlei 2 

 School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China; [email protected] (R.L.); [email protected] (Z.D.); [email protected] (J.H.); [email protected] (C.P.), Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security, Zhengzhou 450001, China 
 School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China; [email protected] (R.L.); [email protected] (Z.D.); [email protected] (J.H.); [email protected] (C.P.), State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks (ISN), Xi’an 710126, China 
 School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China; [email protected] (R.L.); [email protected] (Z.D.); [email protected] (J.H.); [email protected] (C.P.) 
 Yuanjiang Shengbang Safety Technology Group Co., Beijing 100085, China; [email protected] 
 State Grid Jiangxi Electric Power Research Institute, Nanchang 330052, China; [email protected] 
Publication title
Volume
14
Issue
12
First page
2334
Number of pages
27
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
MDPI AG
Place of publication
Basel
Country of publication
Switzerland
Publication subject
e-ISSN
20799292
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
Document type
Journal Article
Publication history
 
 
Online publication date
2025-06-07
Milestone dates
2025-05-07 (Received); 2025-06-05 (Accepted)
Publication history
 
 
   First posting date
07 Jun 2025
ProQuest document ID
3223907961
Document URL
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Last updated
2025-06-25
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ProQuest One Academic