Automatic annotation of confidential data in java code

Bastys, Iulia, Bolignano, Pauline, Raimondi, Franco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9508-7713 and Schoepe, Daniel (2021) Automatic annotation of confidential data in java code. In: FPS 2021: The 14th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security, 08-12 Dec 2021, Paris, France. . ISSN 0302-9743 [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Abstract

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 pre-existing 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.

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