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This pull request introduces the complete OWASP Benchmark Java project, a specialized application designed to rigorously test and evaluate the performance of various application security testing tools. It encompasses the full codebase of the benchmark application, which is intentionally seeded with a wide range of common vulnerabilities. The changes include comprehensive build and deployment configurations, integration with numerous industry-standard static and dynamic analysis tools, and an automated system for generating detailed scorecards. This setup facilitates objective measurement of security tool effectiveness by tracking true positives and false positives across diverse vulnerability categories, providing a robust framework for security assessment and comparison.
Highlights
- Core Project Introduction: This pull request introduces the entire OWASP Benchmark Java project, a comprehensive test suite designed to evaluate the effectiveness of various Application Security Testing (AST) tools. It includes the core application code with intentional vulnerabilities, along with extensive infrastructure for building, deploying, and testing.
- Extensive Tool Integration: The project integrates with a wide array of static and dynamic analysis tools, including CodeQL, FindBugs, PMD, Semgrep, SonarQube, Fortify, Insider, and ShiftLeft Scan. Dedicated scripts are provided for running these tools against the benchmark.
- Robust Build and Deployment Infrastructure: Comprehensive build and deployment configurations are included, leveraging Maven, Ant, and Docker. This allows for flexible deployment scenarios, including local and remote access, and containerized environments.
- Automated Scorecard Generation and Vulnerability Coverage: A key feature is the automated scorecard generation, which evaluates tool performance against a large set of known vulnerabilities (e.g., SQL Injection, XSS, Path Traversal, LDAP Injection, Command Injection, Weak Crypto, Weak Random, Trust Boundary Violation, Insecure Cookie, XPath Injection). These scorecards provide detailed metrics like True Positive Rate and False Positive Rate.
- Continuous Integration and Static Analysis Setup: The project sets up continuous integration (CI) using Travis CI, with integrated static analysis via Coverity Scan, ensuring ongoing code quality and security checks.
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Code Review
This pull request adds the OWASP Benchmark project, including a Java web application, build scripts, and various configuration files. My review has identified several critical and high-severity issues that should be addressed. These include the use of outdated dependencies with known vulnerabilities in the pom.xml, insecure practices in the Dockerfile such as hardcoded credentials, and potential race conditions in the database helper class due to improper use of static fields. Additionally, I've provided suggestions to improve the robustness of shell scripts, fix typos, and adopt standard logging practices over System.out.println.
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The slf4j-reload4j dependency is a wrapper for Log4j 1.x, which is End-of-Life and has known critical vulnerabilities, including Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228). It is strongly recommended to migrate to a secure and supported logging framework like Log4j2 or Logback to avoid security risks.
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Using static fields for Connection and Statement is not thread-safe and is a critical issue in a multi-threaded web application. This can lead to race conditions and unpredictable behavior. These resources should be managed on a per-request or per-thread basis, for example by using a connection pool and creating/closing connections and statements within the methods that use them.
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This project uses outdated versions of Spring Framework (4.3.30.RELEASE) and Hibernate (3.6.10.Final). Both are End-of-Life and have known critical security vulnerabilities. Using these dependencies poses a significant security risk to the application and its environment. Please upgrade to supported versions.
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| hotspot_count=$(curl --silent -u "$sonar_token:" "$sonar_host/api/hotspots/search?projectKey=benchmark&p=1&ps=1" | jq -r '.paging.total') |
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The projectKey is hardcoded to benchmark when searching for hotspots. It should use the $sonar_project variable defined earlier in the script for consistency and to ensure the correct project is queried.
| hotspot_count=$(curl --silent -u "$sonar_token:" "$sonar_host/api/hotspots/search?projectKey=benchmark&p=1&ps=1" | jq -r '.paging.total') | |
| hotspot_count=$(curl --silent -u "$sonar_token:" "$sonar_host/api/hotspots/search?projectKey=$sonar_project&p=1&ps=1" | jq -r '.paging.total') |
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Using the latest tag for the base image is not recommended for production or reproducible builds, as it can be updated with breaking changes. It's best practice to pin to a specific version, for example ubuntu:20.04.
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| # Remove any ubuntu:<none> image if it was left behind by a new version of ubunto:latest being pulled | ||
| i=$(docker images | grep "ubuntu" | grep "<none" | awk '{print $3}') |
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This method of finding and removing dangling images is brittle. A more robust and modern approach is to use docker image prune with filters. For example, to remove dangling ubuntu images, you could use: docker image rm $(docker images -q --filter "dangling=true" --filter "reference=ubuntu").
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This class extends javax.servlet.jsp.el.ExpressionEvaluator, which has been deprecated since JSP 2.1. It is recommended to use the Unified Expression Language (EL) API from the javax.el package instead for better compatibility and to avoid using outdated APIs.
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Relying on the exception message string to check for a specific error condition is fragile, as the message could change in future library versions. It's more robust to catch the specific exception type, which in this case would be javax.naming.NameAlreadyBoundException.
} catch (javax.naming.NameAlreadyBoundException e) {
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Using System.out.println() and e.printStackTrace() for logging is not recommended in server applications. It's better to use a dedicated logging framework like SLF4J with an implementation like Logback or Log4j2. This provides configurable log levels, output formats, and destinations, which is crucial for production environments. This applies to several other classes in this pull request.
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Catching the generic Exception is a bad practice as it can hide unexpected runtime exceptions. It's better to catch more specific exceptions that are expected to be thrown here, such as IOException, ClassNotFoundException, NoSuchMethodException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, and InvocationTargetException.
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