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Searching for Code in J2EE/Java

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Performing Text Searches

The basis of the code review is to locate and analyse areas of code which may have application security implications. Assuming the code reviewer has a thorough understanding of the code, what it is intended to do and the context upon which it is to be used, firstly one needs to sweep the code base for areas of interest.

This can be done by performing a text search on the code base looking for keywords relating to API's and functions. Below is a guide for .NET framework 1.1 & 2.0

Searching for code in .NET

Firstly one needs to be familiar with the tools one can use in order to perform text searching following on from this one need to know what to look for.

In this section we will assume you have a copy of Visual Studio (VS) .NET at hand. VS has two types of search "Find in Files" and a cmd line tool called Findstr

The test search tools in XP is not great in my experience and if one has to use this make sure SP2 in installed as it works better. To start off one should scan thorough the code looking for common patterns or keywords such as "User", "Password", "Pswd", "Key", "Http", etc... This can be done using the "Find in Files" tool in VS or using findstring as follows:

[Find In Files HERE] 

findstr /s /m /i /d:c:\projects\codebase\sec "http" *.*

Looking for Keywords

Http Request Strings

request.querystring
request.form 
request.cookies
request.certificate
request.servervariables
request.IsSecureConnection
request.TotalBytes
request.BinaryRead

HTML Output

response.write
<% =
HttpUtility
HtmlEncode
UrlEncode
innerText
innerHTML

SQL & Database

exec sp_executesql
execute sp_executesql
select from
Insert
update
delete from where
delete
exec sp_
execute sp_
exec xp_
execute sp_
exec @
execute @
executestatement
executeSQL
setfilter
executeQuery
GetQueryResultInXML
adodb
sqloledb
sql server
driver
Server.CreateObject
.Provider
.Open
ADODB.recordset
New OleDbConnection
ExecuteReader
DataSource
Microsoft.Jet
SqlDataReader
cmd.ExecuteReader
GetString
SqlDataAdapter

Cookies

System.Net.Cookie 
HttpOnly
document.cookie

HTML Tags

HtmlEncode 
URLEncode
<applet> 
<frameset> 
<embed> 
<frame> 
<html>
<iframe> 
<img> 
<style> 
<layer> 
<ilayer> 
<meta> 
<object> 
<body> 
<frame security
<iframe security

Input Controls

system.web.ui.htmlcontrols.htmlinputhidden
system.web.ui.webcontrols.textbox
system.web.ui.webcontrols.listbox
system.web.ui.webcontrols.checkboxlist
system.web.ui.webcontrols.dropdownlist


web.config settings

requestEncoding
responseEncoding

global.asx

Machine.config

validateRequest

Threads and Concurrancy

Reflection, Serialization, Clones

Crypto

Authorization, Assert & Revert

Authentication

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