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This paper introduces novel automated oracles for detecting access policy violations and injection attacks (SQL Injection, XSS) in REST APIs. These oracles are integrated into a "security testing" phase after fuzzing, generating executable test cases upon fault detection. Experiments across 52 APIs demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach in uncovering security issues, implemented as an extension to the EvoMaster fuzzer.
Exposing access control flaws and injection vulnerabilities in REST APIs is now easier than ever, thanks to novel oracles that automatically generate executable test cases from fuzzing results.
Due to their widespread use in industry, several techniques have been proposed in the literature to fuzz REST APIs. Existing fuzzers for REST APIs have been focusing on detecting crashes (e.g., 500 HTTP server error status code). However, security vulnerabilities can have major drastic consequences on existing cloud infrastructures. In this paper, we propose a series of novel automated oracles aimed at detecting violations of access policies in REST APIs, as well as executing traditional attacks such as SQL Injection and XSS. These novel automated oracles can be integrated into existing fuzzers, in which, once the fuzzing session is completed, a ``security testing''phase is executed to verify these oracles. When a security fault is detected, as output our technique is able to general executable test cases in different formats, like Java, Kotlin, Python and JavaScript test suites. Our novel techniques are integrated as an extension of EvoMaster, a state-of-the-art open-source fuzzer for REST APIs. Experiments are carried out on 9 artificial examples, 8 vulnerable-by-design REST APIs with black-box testing, and 36 REST APIs from the WFD corpus with white-box testing, for a total of 52 distinct APIs. Results show that our novel oracles and their automated integration in a fuzzing process can lead to detect security issues in several of these APIs.
