@inproceedings{ae33efcc74c2476a95c0cda9afeb15ae,
title = "SOFIA: An automated security oracle for black-box testing of SQL-injection vulnerabilities",
abstract = "Security testing is a pivotal activity in engineering secure software. It consists of two phases: generating attack inputs to test the system, and assessing whether test executions expose any vulnerabilities. The latter phase is known as the security oracle problem. In this work, we present SOFIA, a Security Oracle for SQLInjection Vulnerabilities. SOFIA is programming-language and source-code independent, and can be used with various attack generation tools. Moreover, because it does not rely on known attacks for learning, SOFIA is meant to also detect types of SQLi attacks that might be unknown at learning time. The oracle challenge is recast as a one-class classification problem where we learn to characterise legitimate SQL statements to accurately distinguish them from SQLi attack statements. We have carried out an experimental validation on six applications, among which two are large and widely-used. SOFIA was used to detect real SQLi vulnerabilities with inputs generated by three attack generation tools. The obtained results show that SOFIA is computationally fast and achieves a recall rate of 100% (i.e., missing no attacks) with a low false positive rate (0.6%).",
keywords = "Security oracle, Security testing, SQL-injection",
author = "Mariano Ceccato and Nguyen, {Cu D.} and Dennis Appelt and Briand, {Lionel C.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2016 ; Conference date: 03-09-2016 Through 07-09-2016",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1145/2970276.2970343",
language = "English",
series = "ASE 2016 - Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "167--177",
editor = "Sarfraz Khurshid and David Lo and Sven Apel",
booktitle = "ASE 2016 - Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering",
}