Aper: Evolution-Aware Runtime Permission Misuse Detection for Android Apps
Wed 11 May 2022 22:05 - 22:10 at ICSE room 2-even hours - Software Security 6 Chair(s): Travis Breaux
Android platform introduces the runtime permission model in version 6.0. The new model greatly improves data privacy and user experience, but brings new challenges for app developers. First, it allows users to freely revoke granted permissions. Hence, developers cannot assume that permissions granted to an app would keep being granted. Instead, they should make their app carefully check the permission status before invoking dangerous APIs. Second, the permission specification keeps evolving, bringing new types of compatibility issues to the ecosystem. To understand the impact of the challenges, we conducted an empirical study on 13,352 popular Google Play apps. We found that 86.0% apps used dangerous APIs asynchronously after permission management and 61.2% apps used evolving dangerous APIs. If an app does not handle permission revoking properly or deal with the platform differences, unexpected runtime issues may happen and even cause app crashes. We call such Android Runtime Permission issues as ARP bugs. Unfortunately, existing runtime permission issue detection tools cannot effectively deal with the ARP bugs induced by asynchronous permission management and permission specification evolution. To fill the gap, we designed a static analyzer, Aper, that performs reaching definition and dominator analysis on Android apps to detect the two types of ARP bugs. To compare Aper with existing tools, we built a benchmark, ARPfix, from 60 real ARP bugs. Our experiment results show that Aper significantly outperforms two academic tools, ARPDroid and RevDroid, and an industrial tool, Lint, on ARPfix, with an average improvement of 46.3% on F1-score. In addition, Aper successfully found 34 ARP bugs in 214 open-source Android apps, most of which can cause app crashes according to our manual validation. We reported these bugs to the app developers. So far, 17 bugs have been confirmed and seven have been fixed.
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