Automatic Annotation of Confidential Data in Java Code

Bastys, Iulia,1986Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology (author)

The problem of confidential information leak can be addressed by using automatic tools that take a set of annotated inputs (the source ) and track their flow to public sinks . Unfortunately, manually annotating the code with labels specifying the secret sources is one of the main obstacles in the adoption of such trackers. In this work, we present an approach for the automatic generation of labels for confidential data in Java programs. Our solution is based on a graph-based representation of Java methods: starting from a minimal set of known API calls, it propagates the labels both intra- and inter-procedurally until a fix-point is reached. In our evaluation, we encode our synthesis and propagation algorithm in Datalog and assess the accuracy of our technique on seven previously annotated internal code bases, where we can reconstruct 75% of the preexisting manual annotations. In addition to this single data point, we also perform an assessment using samples from the SecuriBench-micro benchmark, and we provide additional sample programs that demonstrate the capabilities and the limitations of our approach.

In:Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)Cham : Springer International Publishing13291, s. 146-1611611-33490302-9743

By the author/editor: Bastys, Iulia, 1 ...; Bolignano, Pauli ...; Raimondi, Franco; Schoepe, Daniel, ...

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