Security is unarguably the most serious concern for Web applications, to which SQL injection (SQLi) attack is one of the most devastating attacks. Automatically testing SQLi vulnerabilities is of ultimate importance, yet is unfortunately far from trivial to implement. This is because the existence of a huge, or potentially infinite, number of variants and semantic possibilities of SQL leading to SQLi attacks on various Web applications. In this paper, we propose a deep natural language processing based tool, dubbed DeepSQLi, to generate test cases for detecting SQLi vulnerabilities. Through adopting deep learning based neural language model and sequence of words prediction, DeepSQLi is equipped with the ability to learn the semantic knowledge embedded in SQLi attacks, allowing it to translate user inputs (or a test case) into a new test case, which is semantically related and potentially more sophisticated. Experiments are conducted to compare DeepSQLi with SQLmap, a state-of-the-art SQLi testing automation tool, on six real-world Web applications that are of different scales, characteristics and domains. Empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness and the remarkable superiority of DeepSQLi over SQLmap, such that more SQLi vulnerabilities can be identified by using a less number of test cases, whilst running much faster.
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13:30 - 14:30 | SECURITYTechnical Papers at Zoom Chair(s): Lucas Bang Harvey Mudd College Public Live Stream/Recording. Registered participants should join via the Zoom link distributed in Slack. | ||
13:30 20mTalk | Feedback-Driven Side-Channel Analysis for Networked Applications Technical Papers Ismet Burak Kadron University of California at Santa Barbara, Nico Rosner Amazon Web Services, Tevfik Bultan University of California, Santa Barbara DOI | ||
13:50 20mTalk | Scalable Analysis of Interaction Threats in IoT Systems Technical Papers Mohannad Alhanahnah , Clay Stevens University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hamid Bagheri University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
14:10 20mTalk | DeepSQLi: Deep Semantic Learning for Testing SQL Injection Technical Papers DOI Pre-print |