From Coverage to Causes: Data-Centric Fuzzing for JavaScript Engines

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18102v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:15:53 GMT
• Title: From Coverage to Causes: Data-Centric Fuzzing for JavaScript Engines
• Authors: Kishan Kumar Ganguly, Tim Menzies,
• Abstract summary: Exhaustive fuzzing of modern JavaScript engines is infeasible due to the vast number of program states and execution paths.<n>This work introduces feature-guided fuzzing, an automated data-driven approach that replaces coverage with data-directed inference.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Context: Exhaustive fuzzing of modern JavaScript engines is infeasible due to the vast number of program states and execution paths. Coverage-guided fuzzers waste effort on low-risk inputs, often ignoring vulnerability-triggering ones that do not increase coverage. Existing heuristics proposed to mitigate this require expert effort, are brittle, and hard to adapt. Objective: We propose a data-centric, LLM-boosted alternative that learns from historical vulnerabilities to automatically identify minimal static (code) and dynamic (runtime) features for detecting high-risk inputs. Method: Guided by historical V8 bugs, iterative prompting generated 115 static and 49 dynamic features, with the latter requiring only five trace flags, minimizing instrumentation cost. After feature selection, 41 features remained to train an XGBoost model to predict high-risk inputs during fuzzing. Results: Combining static and dynamic features yields over 85% precision and under 1% false alarms. Only 25% of these features are needed for comparable performance, showing that most of the search space is irrelevant. Conclusion: This work introduces feature-guided fuzzing, an automated data-driven approach that replaces coverage with data-directed inference, guiding fuzzers toward high-risk states for faster, targeted, and reproducible vulnerability discovery. To support open science, all scripts and data are available at https://github.com/KKGanguly/DataCentricFuzzJS .

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