Git-Vuln-Finder – Finding Potential Software Vulnerabilities From Git Commit Messages

git vuln finder

Finding potential software vulnerabilities from git commit messages. The output format is a JSON with the associated commit which could contain a fix regarding a software vulnerability. The search is based on a set of regular expressions against the commit messages only. If CVE IDs are present, those are added automatically in the output.

Requirements

  • Python 3.6
  • GitPython
  • langdetect

Usage

usage: finder.py [-h] [-v] [-r R] [-o O] [-s S] [-p P] [-c] [-t]

Finding potential software vulnerabilities from git commit messages.

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v increase output verbosity
-r R git repository to analyse
-o O Output format: [json]
-s S State of the commit found
-p P Matching pattern to use: [vulnpatterns, cryptopatterns,
cpatterns] - the pattern 'all' is used to match all the patterns
at once.
-c output only a list of the CVE pattern found in commit messages
(disable by default)
-t Include tags matching a specific commit

More info: https://github.com/cve-search/git-vuln-finder

Patterns
git-vuln-finder comes with 3 default patterns which can be selected to find the potential vulnerabilities described in the commit messages such as:

  • vulnpatterns is a generic vulnerability pattern especially targeting web application and generic security commit message. Based on an academic paper.
  • cryptopatterns is a vulnerability pattern for cryptographic errors mentioned in commit messages.
  • cpatterns is a set of standard vulnerability patterns see for C/C++-like languages.

A sample partial output from Curl git repository

python3 finder.py -r /home/adulau/git/curl | jq .
...
"6df916d751e72fc9a1febc07bb59c4ddd886c043": {
"message": "loadlibrary: Only load system DLLs from the system directorynnInspiration provided by: Daniel Stenberg and Ray SatironnBug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160530.htmlnnRef: Windows DLL hijacking with curl, CVE-2016-4802n",
"language": "en",
"commit-id": "6df916d751e72fc9a1febc07bb59c4ddd886c043",
"summary": "loadlibrary: Only load system DLLs from the system directory",
"stats": {
"insertions": 180,
"deletions": 8,
"lines": 188,
"files": 7
},
"author": "Steve Holme",
"author-email": "[email protected]",
"authored_date": 1464555460,
"committed_date": 1464588867,
"branches": [
"master"
],
"pa ttern-selected": "(?i)(denial of service |bXXEb|remote code execution|bopen redirect|OSVDB|bvuln|bCVEb |bXSSb|bReDoSb|bNVDb|malicious|x−frame−options|attack|cross site |exploit|malicious|directory traversal |bRCEb|bdosb|bXSRF b|bXSSb|clickjack|session.fixation|hijack|badvisory|binsecure |security |bcross−originb|unauthori[z|s]ed |infinite loop)",
"pattern-matches": [
"hijack"
],
"origin": "[email protected]:curl/curl.git",
"origin-github-api": "https://api.github.com/repos/curl/curl/commits/6df916d751e72fc9a1febc07bb59c4ddd886c043",
"tags": [],
"cve": [
"CVE-2016-4802"
],
"state": "cve-assigned"
},
"c2b3f264cb5210f82bdc84a3b89250a611b68dd3": {
"message": "CONNECT_ONLY: don't close connection on GSS 401/407 reponsesnnPreviously, connections were closed immediately before the user had anchance to extract the socket when the proxy required Ne gotiatenauthentication.nnThis regression was brought in with the security fix in commitn79b9d5f1a42578fnnCloses #655n",
"language": "en",
"commit-id": "c2b3f264cb5210f82bdc84a3b89250a611b68dd3",
"summary": "CONNECT_ONLY: don't close connection on GSS 401/407 reponses",
"stats": {
"insertions": 4,
"deletions": 2,
"lines": 6,
"files": 1
},
"author": "Marcel Raad",
"author-email": "[email protected]",
"authored_date": 1455523116,
"committed_date": 1461704516,
"branches": [
"master"
],
"pattern-selected": "(?i)(denial of service |bXXEb|remote code execution|bopen redirect|OSVDB|bvuln|bCVEb |bXSSb|bReDoSb|bNVDb|malicious|x−frame−options|attack|cross site |exploit|malicious|directory traversal |bRCEb|bdosb|bXSRF b|bXSSb|clickjack|session.fixation|hijack|badvisory|binsecure |security |bcross−origi nb|unauthori[z|s]ed |infinite loop)",
"pattern-matches": [
"security "
],
"origin": "[email protected]:curl/curl.git",
"origin-github-api": "https://api.github.com/repos/curl/curl/commits/c2b3f264cb5210f82bdc84a3b89250a611b68dd3",
"tags": [],
"state": "under-review"
},
...
  • Extracting CVE id(s) from git messages
  "98d132cf6a879faf0147aa83ea0c07ff326260ed": {
"message": "Add a macro for testing assertion in both debug and production buildsnnIf we have an assert then in a debug build we want an abort() to occur.nIn a production build we wan
t the function to return an error.nnThis introduces a new macro to assist with that. The idea is to replacenexisting use of OPENSSL_assert() with this new macro. The problem withnOPENSSL
_assert() is that it aborts() on an assertion failure in both debugnand production builds. It should never be a library's decision to abort anprocess (we don't get to decide when to kill t
he life support machine ornthe nuclear reactor control system). Additionally if an attacker canncause a reachable assert to be hit then this can be a source of DoS attacksne.g. see CVE-20
17-3733, CVE-2015-0293, CVE-2011-4577 and CVE-2002-1568.nnReviewed-by: Tim Hudson <[email protected]>n(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/o penssl/pull/3496)",
"commit-id": "98d132cf6a879faf0147aa83ea0c07ff326260ed",
"summary": "Add a macro for testing assertion in both debug and production builds",
"stats": {
"insertions": 18,
"deletions": 0,
"lines": 18,
"files": 1
},
"author": "Matt Caswell",
"author-email": "[email protected]",
"authored_date": 1495182637,
"committed_date": 1495457671,
"branches": [
"master"
],
"pattern-selected": "(?i)(denial of service |bXXEb|remote code execution|bopen redirect|OSVDB|bvuln|bCVEb |bXSSb|bReDoSb|bNVDb|malicious|x−frame−options|attack|cross site |ex
ploit|malicious|directory traversal |bRCEb|bdosb|bXSRF b|bXSSb|clickjack|session.fixation|hijack|badvisory|binsecure |security |bcross−originb|unauthori[z|s]ed |infinite loop)",
"pattern-matches": [
"attack"
],
"cve": [
"CVE-2017-3733",
"CVE-2015-0293",
"CVE-2011-4577",
"CVE-2002-1568"
],
"state": "cve-assigned"
}

Acknowledgment

  • Thanks to Jean-Louis Huynen for the discussions about the crypto vulnerability pattern
  • Thanks to Sebastien Tricaud for the discussions regarding native language and commit messages

References

  • Notes
  • https://csce.ucmss.com/cr/books/2017/LFS/CSREA2017/ICA2077.pdf (mainly using CVE referenced in the commit message) – archive (http://archive.is/xep9o)
  • https://asankhaya.github.io/pdf/automated-identification-of-security-issues-from-commit-messages-and-bug-reports.pdf (2 main regexps)
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