Browse wiki

From Navigators

Jump to: navigation, search
Publication:WAP-WWW2014
Abstract Web application security is an important p Web application security is an important problem in today's internet. A major cause of this status is that many programmers do not have adequate knowledge about secure coding, so they leave applications with vulnerabilities. An approach to solve this problem is to use source code static analysis to solve these bugs, but these tools are known to report many false positives that make hard the task of correcting the application. This paper explores the use of a hybrid of methods to detect vulnerabilities with less false positives. After an initial step that uses taint analysis to flag candidate vulnerabilities, our approach uses data mining to predict the existence of false positives. This approach reaches a trade-off between two apparently opposite approaches: humans coding the knowledge about vulnerabilities (for taint analysis) versus automatically obtaining that knowledge (with machine learning, for data mining). Given this more precise form of detection, we do automatic code correction by inserting fixes in the source code. The approach was implemented in the WAP tool and an experimental evaluation was performed with a large set of open source PHP applications. large set of open source PHP applications.
Address Seoul, Korea  +
Author Ibéria Medeiros + , Nuno Ferreira Neves + , Miguel Correia +
Booktitle Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)  +
Document Document for Publication-WAP-WWW2014.pdf +
Key WAP-WWW2014  +
Month apr  +
NumPubDate 2,014.04  +
Project Project:SEGRID +
ResearchLine Fault and Intrusion Tolerance in Open Distributed Systems (FIT) +
Title Automatic Detection and Correction of Web Application Vulnerabilities using Data Mining to Predict False Positives  +
Type inproceedings  +
Year 2014  +
Has improper value forThis property is a special property in this wiki. Url  +
Categories Publication  +
Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. 5 June 2016 08:08:56  +
hide properties that link here 
  No properties link to this page.
 

 

Enter the name of the page to start browsing from.
Views
Personal tools
Toolbox
Navigators toolbox