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. The input can be any git repositories or a GH archive source.

Requirements

• jq (sudo apt install jq)
• Python poetry

Installation

Use it as a library

git-vuln-finder can be install with poetry. If you don't have poetry installed, you can do the following curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python.

$ poetry install
$ poetry shell
$ git-vuln-finder -h

You can also use pip. Then just import it:

Python 3.8.0 (default, Dec 11 2019, 21:43:13)
[GCC 9.2.1 20191008] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from git_vuln_finder import find
>>> all_potential_vulnerabilities, all_cve_found, found = find("~/git/curl")

>>> [commit for commit, summary in all_potential_vulnerabilities.items() if summary['state'] == 'cve-assigned']
['9069838b30fb3b48af0123e39f664cea683254a5', 'facb0e4662415b5f28163e853dc6742ac5fafb3d',
... snap ...
 '8a75dbeb2305297640453029b7905ef51b87e8dd', '1dc43de0dccc2ea7da6dddb7b98f8d7dcf323914', '192c4f788d48f82c03e9cef40013f34370e90737', '2eb8dcf26cb37f09cffe26909a646e702dbcab66', 'fa1ae0abcde5df8d0b3283299e3f246bedf7692c', 'c11c30a8c8d727dcf5634fa0cc6ee0b4b77ddc3d', '75ca568fa1c19de4c5358fed246686de8467c238', 'a20daf90e358c1476a325ea665d533f7a27e3364', '042cc1f69ec0878f542667cb684378869f859911']

 >>> print(json.dumps(all_potential_vulnerabilities['9069838b30fb3b48af0123e39f664cea683254a5'], sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(",", ": ")))
 {
     "author": "Daniel Stenberg",
     "author-email": "[email protected]",
     "authored_date": 1567544372,
     "branches": [
         "master"
     ],
     "commit-id": "9069838b30fb3b48af0123e39f664cea683254a5",
     "committed_date": 1568009674,
     "cve": [
         "CVE-2019-5481",
         "CVE-2019-5481"
     ],
     "language": "en",
     "message": "security:read_data fix bad realloc()\n\n... that could end up a double-free\n\nCVE-2019-5481\nBug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-5481.html\n",
     "origin": "https://github.com/curl/curl.git",
     "origin-github-api": "https://api.github.com/repos///github.com/curl/curl/commits/9069838b30fb3b48af0123e39f664cea683254a5",
     "pattern-matches": [
         "double-free"
     ],
     "pattern-selected": "(?i)(double[-| ]free|buffer overflow|double free|race[-| ]condition)",
     "state": "cve-assigned",
     "stats": {
         "deletions": 4,
         "files": 1,
         "insertions": 2,
         "lines": 6
     },
     "summary": "security:read_data fix bad realloc()",
     "tags": []
 }

Use it as a command line tool

$ git clone https://github.com/cve-search/git-vuln-finder.git
$ cd https://github.com/cve-search/git-vuln-finder.git
$ pip install .
$ git-vuln-finder --help

You can also use pip. pipx installs scripts (system wide available) provided by Python packages into separate virtualenvs to shield them from your system and each other.

Usage

usage: git-vuln-finder [-h] [-v] [-r R] [-o O] [-s S] [-p P] [-c] [-t] [-gh GH]

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
  -gh GH      special option for gharchive, pass a file containing a PushEvent in JSON format

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

$ git-vuln-finder -r ~/git/curl | jq .
...
 "6df916d751e72fc9a1febc07bb59c4ddd886c043": {
    "message": "loadlibrary: Only load system DLLs from the system directory\n\nInspiration provided by: Daniel Stenberg and Ray Satiro\n\nBug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160530.html\n\nRef: Windows DLL hijacking with curl, CVE-2016-4802\n",
    "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"
    ],
    "pattern-selected": "(?i)(denial of service |\bXXE\b|remote code execution|\bopen redirect|OSVDB|\bvuln|\bCVE\b |\bXSS\b|\bReDoS\b|\bNVD\b|malicious|x−frame−options|attack|cross site |exploit|malicious|directory traversal |\bRCE\b|\bdos\b|\bXSRF \b|\bXSS\b|clickjack|session.fixation|hijack|\badvisory|\binsecure |security |\bcross−origin\b|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 reponses\n\nPreviously, connections were closed immediately before the user had a\nchance to extract the socket when the proxy required Negotiate\nauthentication.\n\nThis regression was brought in with the security fix in commit\n79b9d5f1a42578f\n\nCloses #655\n",
    "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 |\bXXE\b|remote code execution|\bopen redirect|OSVDB|\bvuln|\bCVE\b |\bXSS\b|\bReDoS\b|\bNVD\b|malicious|x−frame−options|attack|cross site |exploit|malicious|directory traversal |\bRCE\b|\bdos\b|\bXSRF \b|\bXSS\b|clickjack|session.fixation|hijack|\badvisory|\binsecure |security |\bcross−origin\b|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 builds\n\nIf 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.\n\nThis introduces a new macro to assist with that. The idea is to replace\nexisting use of OPENSSL_assert() with this new macro. The problem with\nOPENSSL
_assert() is that it aborts() on an assertion failure in both debug\nand production builds. It should never be a library's decision to abort a\nprocess (we don't get to decide when to kill t
he life support machine or\nthe nuclear reactor control system). Additionally if an attacker can\ncause a reachable assert to be hit then this can be a source of DoS attacks\ne.g. see CVE-20
17-3733, CVE-2015-0293, CVE-2011-4577 and CVE-2002-1568.\n\nReviewed-by: Tim Hudson <[email protected]>\n(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/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 |\bXXE\b|remote code execution|\bopen redirect|OSVDB|\bvuln|\bCVE\b |\bXSS\b|\bReDoS\b|\bNVD\b|malicious|x−frame−options|attack|cross site |ex
ploit|malicious|directory traversal |\bRCE\b|\bdos\b|\bXSRF \b|\bXSS\b|clickjack|session.fixation|hijack|\badvisory|\binsecure |security |\bcross−origin\b|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"
  }

Usage for the special gharchive option

$ git-vuln-finder -gh ../tests/gharchive_test.json

the value for the gh parameters need to be a json file, containing an array of each PushEvent you want to test.

[
   {
    "id": "19351512310",
    "type": "PushEvent",
    "actor": {
      "id": 32466128,
      "login": "DavidCruciani",
      "display_login": "DavidCruciani",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/DavidCruciani",
      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/32466128?"
    },
    "repo": {
      "id": 424660123,
      "name": "ail-project/ail-feeder-gharchive",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/ail-project/ail-feeder-gharchive"
    },
    "payload": {
      "push_id": 8628652926,
      "size": 1,
      "distinct_size": 1,
      "ref": "refs/heads/main",
      "head": "910ed71a2819546a3f3bcce1ebb9e3984a8c8d86",
      "before": "40a9ef5dc6b2add5184a0a58401bfe9058faa8df",
      "commits": [
        {
          "sha": "910ed71a2819546a3f3bcce1ebb9e3984a8c8d86",
          "author": {
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "name": "David Cruciani"
          },
          "message": "chg: [feeder] case sensitive",
          "distinct": true,
          "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/ail-project/ail-feeder-gharchive/commits/910ed71a2819546a3f3bcce1ebb9e3984a8c8d86"
        }
      ]
    },
    "public": true,
    "created_at": "2021-12-15T16:06:43Z",
    "org": {
      "id": 62389074,
      "login": "ail-project",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/ail-project",
      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/62389074?"
    }
  }
]

Usage for import

If the goal is to import the module to use it, the method to call is find_event

from git_vuln_finder import find_event

for element in event:
    for i in range(0,len(element["payload"]["commits"])):
        all_potential_vulnerabilities, all_cve_found, found = find_event(element["payload"]["commits"][i], element)

Output with gharchive option

{
    "repo_name": "LeandroFChaves/gerenciador-alunos",
    "message": "[UI] - Ajustes no css da aplica\u00e7\u00e3o\n\n- Adicionado padding para a exibi\u00e7\u00e3o do conte\u00fado das p\u00e1ginas;\n- Alinhado os bot\u00f5es de a\u00e7\u00f5es dos forms a direita da table",
    "language": "pt",
    "commit-id": "73a1c68b520853198eaac199a41d141ee96dc64d",
    "author": "LeandroFChaves",
    "author-email": "[email protected]",
    "authored_date": "2021-10-01T03:00:07Z",
    "branches": "refs/heads/master",
    "pattern-selected": "(?i)(denial of service|\\bXXE\\b|remote code execution|\\bopen redirect|OSVDB|\\bvuln|\\bCVE\\b|\\bXSS\\b|\\bReDoS\\b|\\bNVD\\b|malicious|x\u2212frame\u2212options|attack|cross site|exploit|malicious|directory traversal|\\bRCE\\b|\\bdos\\b|\\bXSRF \\b|\\bXSS\\b|clickjack|session.fixation|hijack|\\badvisory|\\binsecure|security|\\bcross\u2212origin\\b|unauthori[z|s]ed|infinite loop)",
    "pattern-matches": [
        "dos"
    ],
    "origin-github-api": "https://api.github.com/repos/LeandroFChaves/gerenciador-alunos/commits/73a1c68b520853198eaac199a41d141ee96dc64d",
    "state": "under-review"
}

Running the tests

$ pytest

Warning

git-vuln-finder is an automatic tool that detects potential vulnerabilities in commit messages based on specific keywords. If you intend to use the discovered vulnerability information, such as CVEs registration, please review the discovered vulnerabilities with the authors of the software before proceeding.

License and author(s)

This software is free software and licensed under the AGPL version 3.

• Copyright (c) 2019-2023 Alexandre Dulaunoy - https://github.com/adulau/
• Copyright (c) 2019-2023 All contributors to the project

Acknowledgment

• Thanks to Jean-Louis Huynen for the discussions about the crypto vulnerability patterns.
• Thanks to Sebastien Tricaud for the discussions regarding native language, commit messages and external patterns.
• Thanks to Cedric Bonhomme to make git-vuln-finder a Python library, add tests and improve the overall installation process.
• Thanks to David Cruciani for the support of gharchive.

Contributing

We welcome contributions for the software and especially additional vulnerability patterns. Every contributors will be added in the AUTHORS file and collectively own this open source software. The contributors acknowledge the Developer Certificate of Origin.

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)