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OWASP Code Review V2 Table of Contents
- 1 OWASP Code Review Guide v2.0:
- 1.1 Forward
- 1.2 Code Review Guide Introduction
- 1.2.1 What is source code review and Static Analysis
- 1.2.2 What is Code Review
- 1.2.3 Manual Review - Pros and Cons
- 1.2.4 Advantages of Code Review to Development Practices
- 1.2.5 Why code review
- 1.2.6 We can't hack ourselves secure
- 1.2.7 360 Review: Coupling source code review and Testing / Hybrid Reviews
- 1.2.8 Can static code analyzers do it all?
- 2 Methodology
- 3 Reviewing by Technical Control
- 3.1 Reviewing code for Authentication controls
- 3.2 Reviewing code Authorization weakness
- 3.2.1 Checking authz upon every request
- 3.2.2 Reducing the attack surface
- 3.2.3 SSL/TLS Implementations
- 3.2.4 Reviewing code for Session handling
- 3.2.5 Reviewing client side code
- 3.2.6 Review code for input validation
- 3.2.7 Reviewing code for contextual encoding
- 3.2.8 Reviewing file and resource handling code
- 3.2.9 Resource Exhaustion - error handling
- 3.2.10 Reviewing Logging code - Detective Security
- 3.2.11 Reviewing Error handling and Error messages
- 3.2.12 Reviewing Security alerts
- 3.2.13 Review for active defense
- 3.2.14 Reviewing Secure Storage
- 3.2.15 Hashing & Salting - When, How and Where
- 4 Reviewing by Vulnerability
- 4.1 Review Code for XSS
- 4.2 Persistent - The Anti pattern
- 4.3 Reflected - The Anti pattern
- 4.4 Stored - The Anti pattern
- 4.5 DOM XSS
- 4.6 JQuery mistakes
- 4.7 Reviewing code for SQL Injection
- 4.8 The Anti pattern
- 4.9 Reviewing code for CSRF Issues
- 4.10 (This task has been deleted) Transactional logic / Non idempotent functions / State Changing Functions
- 4.11 Reviewing code for poor logic /Business logic/Complex authorization
- 4.12 Reviewing Secure Communications
- 4.13 Tech-Stack pitfalls
- 4.14 Framework specific Issues
- 4.14.1 Spring
- 4.14.2 Struts
- 4.14.3 Drupal
- 4.14.4 Ruby on Rails
- 4.14.5 Django
- 4.14.6 .NET Security / MVC
- 4.14.7 Security in ASP.NET applications
- 4.14.8 PHP Specific Issues
- 4.14.9 Classic ASP
- 4.14.10 C#
- 4.14.11 C/C++
- 4.14.12 Objective C
- 4.14.13 Java
- 4.14.14 Android
- 4.14.15 Coldfusion
- 4.14.16 CodeIgniter
- 5 Security code review for Agile development
- 6 Code Review for Backdoors
- 7 Code Review Tools
OWASP Code Review Guide v2.0:
Forward
- Author - Eoin Keary
- Previous version to be updated:[[1]]
Code Review Guide Introduction
- Author - Eoin Keary
- Previous version to be updated:[[2]]
What is source code review and Static Analysis
What is Code Review
- Author - Zyad Mghazli, Eoin Keary
- New Section
Manual Review - Pros and Cons
- Author - Zyad Mghazli, Eoin Keary,Gary David Robinson
- New Section
- Suggestion: Benchmark of different Stataic Analysis Tools Zyad Mghazli
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Advantages of Code Review to Development Practices
- Author - Gary David Robinson
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Why code review
Scope and Objective of secure code review
- Author - Ashish Rao
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We can't hack ourselves secure
- Author - Eoin Keary
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360 Review: Coupling source code review and Testing / Hybrid Reviews
- Author - eoin Keary
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Can static code analyzers do it all?
- Author - Ashish Rao
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Methodology
The code review approach
- Author - Johanna Curiel
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Preparation and context
- Author - Gary David Robinson
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Application Threat Modeling
- Author - Larry Conklin
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Understanding Code layout/Design/Architecture
- Author - Open
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Understanding Business Logic
SDLC Integration
- Author - Larry Conklin
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Deployment Models
Secure deployment configurations
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Metrics and code review
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Source and sink reviews
- Author - Open
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Code review Coverage
- Author - Open
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Design Reviews
- Author - Ashish Rao
- Why to review design?
- Building security in design - secure by design principle
- Design Areas to be reviewed
- Common Design Flaws
A Risk based approach to code review
- Author - Gary David Robinson
- New Section
- "Doing things right or doing the right things..."
- "Not all bugs are equal
Crawling code
- Author - Open
- Previous version to be updated: [[8]]
- API of Interest:
- Java
- .NET
- PHP
- RUBY
- Frameworks:
- Spring
- .NET MVC
- Struts
- Zend
- New Section
- Searching for code in C/C++
- Author - Gary David Robinson
Code reviews and Compliance
- Author -Open
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Reviewing by Technical Control
Reviewing code for Authentication controls
- Author - Gary Robinson
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Forgot password
- Author Abbas Naderi, Larry Conklin
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CAPTCHA
- Author Larry Conklin, Joan Renchie
Out of Band considerations
- Author - Gary Robinson
- Previous version to be updated: [[10]]
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Reviewing code Authorization weakness
- Author Eoin Keary .NET MVC added
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Checking authz upon every request
- Author - Abbas Naderi
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Reducing the attack surface
- Author Gary Robinson
- Previous version to be updated: [[11]]
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SSL/TLS Implementations
- Author - Eoin Keary
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Reviewing code for Session handling
- Author - Abbas Naderi
- Previous version to be updated: [[12]]
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Reviewing client side code
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Javascript
- Author - Abbas Naderi
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JSON
- Author - Open
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Content Security Policy
- Author - Open
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"Jacking"/Framing
- Author - Eoin Keary
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HTML 5?
- Author - Open
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Browser Defenses
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etc...
Review code for input validation
- Author - Open
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Regex Gotchas
- Author - Open
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ESAPI
- Author - Open
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- Internal Link: [[13]]
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Microsoft Web Protection Library
- Author - Michael Hidalgo
- New Section
- Internal Link: [[14]]
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Reviewing code for contextual encoding
Overall approach to content encoding and anti XSS
HTML Attribute
- Author - Eoin Keary
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HTML Entity
- Author - Eoin Keary
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Javascript Parameters
- Author - Eoin Keary
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JQuery
- Author - Open
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Reviewing file and resource handling code
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Resource Exhaustion - error handling
- Author - Open
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native calls
- Author Open
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Reviewing Logging code - Detective Security
- Author - Gary Robinson
- Where to Log
- What to log
- What not to log
- How to log
- Internal link: [[15]]
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Reviewing Error handling and Error messages
- Author - Gary David Robinson
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Reviewing Security alerts
- Author - Gary Robinson
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Review for active defense
- Author - Colin Watson
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Reviewing Secure Storage
- Author - Open source
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Hashing & Salting - When, How and Where
Encryption
.NET
- Author Larry Conklin, Joan Renchie
- Previous version to be updated: [[17]]
- Can we talk about key storage as well i.e. key management for encryption techniques used in the application? - Ashish Rao
Reviewing by Vulnerability
Review Code for XSS
- Author Examples added by Eoin Keary
- Previous version to be updated: [[18]]
- In reviewing code for XSS - we can give more patterns on "source to sink" patterns for ASP.NET wrf to difference versions and mechanisms to display data in a page - Ashish Rao
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Persistent - The Anti pattern
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.NET
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.Java
- Author Johanna Curiel
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PHP
- Author Abbas Naderi
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Ruby
- Author Open
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Reflected - The Anti pattern
.NET
- Author Johanna Curiel
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.Java
- Author Johanna Curiel
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PHP
- Author Abbas Naderi
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Ruby
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Stored - The Anti pattern
- Author - Johanna Curiel
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.NET
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.Java
- Author Johanna Curiel
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PHP
- Author Johanna Curiel
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Ruby
- Author - Johanna Curiel
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DOM XSS
- Author Larry Conklin
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JQuery mistakes
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Reviewing code for SQL Injection
- Author Gary Robinson
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PHP
- Author - Mennouchi Islam Azeddine
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Java
- Author - Johanna Curiel
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.NET
- Author - Open
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HQL
- Author - Open
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The Anti pattern
- Author Larry Conklin
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https://www.owasp.org/index.php/CRV2_AntiPattern
PHP
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Java
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.NET
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Ruby
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Cold Fusion
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Reviewing code for CSRF Issues
- Author Abbas Naderi
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(This task has been deleted) Transactional logic / Non idempotent functions / State Changing Functions
Reviewing code for poor logic /Business logic/Complex authorization
- Author - Open
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Reviewing Secure Communications
.NET Config
- Author Johanna Curiel, Renchie Joan
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Spring Config
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HTTP Headers
- Author Gary Robinson
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Tech-Stack pitfalls
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Framework specific Issues
Spring
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Struts
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Drupal
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Ruby on Rails
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Django
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.NET Security / MVC
- Author Johanna Curiel, Eoin Keary
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Security in ASP.NET applications
- Author Johanna Curiel
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Strongly Named Assemblies
- Author Johanna Curiel, Larry Conklin
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Round Tripping
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How to prevent Round tripping
- Author - Open
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Setting the right Configurations
- Author Johanna Curiel
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Authentication Options
- Author Johanna Curiel
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Code Review for Managed Code - .Net 1.0 and up
- Author Johanna Curiel
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Using OWASP Top 10 as your guideline
- Author Johanna Curiel
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Code review for Unsafe Code (C#)
- Author Johanna Curiel
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PHP Specific Issues
- Author Open
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Classic ASP
- Author Johanna Curiel
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C#
- Author Open
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C/C++
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Objective C
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Java
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Android
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Coldfusion
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CodeIgniter
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Security code review for Agile development
- Author Carlos Pantelides
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Code Review for Backdoors
- Author Yiannis Pavlosoglou
The review of a piece of source code for backdoors has one excruciating difference to a traditional source code review: The fact that someone with 'commit' or 'write' access to the source code repository has malicious intentions spanning well beyond their current developer remit. Because of this difference, a code review for backdoors is often seen as a very specialised review and can sometimes be considered not a code review per say.
A traditional code review has the objective of determining if a vulnerability is present within the code, further to this if the vulnerability is exploitable and under what conditions. A code review for backdoors has the objective to determine if a certain portion of the codebase is carrying code that is unnecessary for the logic and implementation of the use cases it serves.
Further to this, the reviewer, looks for the trigger points of that logic. Typical examples include a branch statement going off to a part of assembly or obfuscated code. The reviewer is looking for patterns of abnormality in terms of code segments that would not be expected to be present under normal conditions.
An excellent introduction into how to look for rootkits in the Java programming language can be found here. In this paper J. Williams covers a variety of backdoor examples including file system access through a web server, as well as time based attacks involving a key aspect of malicious functionality been made available after a certain amount of time. Such examples form the foundation of what any reviewer for back doors should try to automate, regardless of the language in which the review is taking place.