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Software Security Weakness Scoring Chris Wysopal

Software Security Weakness Scoring Chris Wysopal. Metricon 2.0 7 August 2007. Introduction. Chris Wysopal CTO and Co-Founder, Veracode Inc. Previously Symantec, @stake, L0pht Lead author of “The Art of Software Security Testing”, published by Addison-Wesley. Desired Outcome.

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Software Security Weakness Scoring Chris Wysopal

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  1. Software Security Weakness ScoringChris Wysopal Metricon 2.07 August 2007

  2. Introduction • Chris Wysopal • CTO and Co-Founder, Veracode Inc. • Previously Symantec, @stake,L0pht • Lead author of “The Art of Software Security Testing”, published by Addison-Wesley

  3. Desired Outcome • A standardized system for software security analysis techniques (automated static, automated dynamic, or manual review) to score weaknesses found in software. • Benefits • Output of two different analyses only differ based on false positive and false negative rates of the analyses over the set of weaknesses inspected for • Multiple tools, services, or human reviews can combine results to create a more accurate composite security analysis • Output of software security analysis is more “actionable” much like CVSS gave prioritization to IT security vulnerabilities

  4. Start With What Is Available, Proven, and Maintained • Unique, universal identifiers of software weaknesses CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) - International in scope and free for public use, CWE™ provides a unified, measurable set of software weaknesses that will enable more effective discussion, description, selection, and use of software security tools and services that can find these weaknesses • Standardized method of rating IT vulnerabilities CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) - CVSS is a vulnerability scoring system designed to provide an open and standardized method for rating IT vulnerabilities. CVSS helps organizations prioritize and coordinate a joint response to security vulnerabilities by communicating the base, temporal and environmental properties of a vulnerability.

  5. Challenges • Software weaknesses discovered by current techniques suffer from high false positive and high false negative rates. • Difficult to analyze the application context of a weakness for all the properties that are required by the CVSS formulas • Must compute exploitability metric for issues detected statically

  6. Use CVSS equations – Base Score • Compute values at the class level, the CWE entries. • Take CWE “Common Consequences” which are based on CIA and use CVSS base score formulas for CIA (None, Partial, Full) to compute a numerical CWE impact CWEImpact = 10.41*(1-(1-ConfImpact)*(1-IntegImpact)*(1-AvailImpact)) XImpact = case XImpact of none: 0.0, partial: 0.275, complete: 0.660 • Compute values at the code context level • Use CVSS base score formulas for Access Vector (Local, Adjacent, Network), Access Complexity (High, Medium, Low), and Authentication (Multiple, Single, None) to compute exploitability. ContextExploitability = 20* AccessVector*AccessComplexity*Authentication AccessVector = case AccessVector of requires local access: 0.395, adjacent network accessible: 0.646, network accessible: 1.0 AccessComplexity = case AccessComplexity of high: 0.35, medium: 0.61, low: 0.71 Authentication = case Authentication of requires multiple instances of authentication: 0.45, requires single instance of authentication: 0.56, requires no authentication: 0.704 • Compute Weakness Base Score WeaknessBaseScore = round_to_1_decimal(((0.6*CWEImpact)+(0.4*ContextExploitability)–1.5)*f

  7. Use CVSS equations – Temporal Score • CVSS Temporal score adds the notion of threat based on proof of exploitability, availability of fix, and report confidence. TemporalScore = round_to_1_decimal(BaseScore*Exploitability*RemediationLevel*ReportConfidence) Exploitability = case Exploitability of unproven: 0.85, proof-of-concept: 0.9, functional: 0.95 high: 1.00, not defined: 1.00 RemediationLevel = case RemediationLevel of official-fix: 0.87, temporary-fix: 0.90, workaround: 0.95, unavailable: 1.00, not defined: 1.00 ReportConfidence = case ReportConfidence of unconfirmed: 0.90 uncorroborated: 0.95 confirmed: 1.00 not defined: 1.00 • Can create the notion of threat based on how likely this weakness it true and likelyhood it will be exploited by attackers. Call it Likelihood Score. LiklyhoodScore = round_to_1_decimal(WeaknessBaseScore*CWELikelyhoodOfExploit*ReportConfidence) CWELikelyhoodOfExploit = case CWELikelyhoodOfExploit of very low: 0.20, low: 0.40, medium: 0.60 high: 0.80, very high: 1.00 ReportConfidence = 1 - FalsePositiveRateCWE • Weaknesses can now be ranked by their Likelihood Score. It’s the “likelyhood that bad things will come from a weakness” score.

  8. Final Thoughts • CVSS Environmental Score can be used unchanged. • Can be used by enterprises during the development process if they know the deployed environment. • ISVs can select a likely environment • Needs Work • Need standardized false positive rate testing • Need better exploitability for static issues. Perhaps use data and control flow complexity between taint source and weakness • Still a “badness” score (much like CVSS). Addition of false negative rates move this towards “goodness” score. • Need Empirical testing

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