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Arash Mazidi

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arXiv2024

Mining REST APIs for Potential Mass Assignment Vulnerabilities

REST APIs have a pivotal role in accessing protected resources. Despite the availability of security testing tools, mass assignment vulnerabilities are common in REST APIs, leading to unauthorized manipulation of sensitive data. We propose a lightweight approach to mine the REST API specifications and identify operations and attributes that are prone to mass assignment. We conducted a preliminary study on 100 APIs and found 25 prone to this vulnerability. We confirmed nine real vulnerable operations in six APIs.

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arXiv2023

Wasmizer: Curating WebAssembly-driven Projects on GitHub

WebAssembly has attracted great attention as a portable compilation target for programming languages. To facilitate in-depth studies about this technology, we have deployed Wasmizer, a tool that regularly mines GitHub projects and makes an up-to-date dataset of WebAssembly sources and their binaries publicly available. Presently, we have collected 2 540 C and C++ projects that are highly-related to WebAssembly, and built a dataset of 8 915 binaries that are linked to their source projects. To demonstrate an application of this dataset, we have investigated the presence of eight WebAssembly compilation smells in the wild.

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