vrank: a context-aware approach to vulnerability scoring and ranking in soa

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	vrank: a context-aware approach to vulnerability scoring and ranking in soa
	Jiang Jianchun; Ding Liping; Zhai Ennan; Yu Ting
	2012
会议名称	2012 IEEE 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability, SERE 2012
会议录名称	Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability, SERE 2012
页码	61-70
会议日期	June 20, 2012 - June 22, 2012
会议地点	Gaithersburg, MD, United states
收录类别	EI
ISBN	9780769547428
部门归属	(1) Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China; (2) North Carolina State University United States
摘要	With the rapid adoption of the concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), sophisticated business processes and tasks are increasingly realized through composing distributed software components offered by different providers. Though such practices offer advantages in terms of cost-effectiveness and flexibility, those components are not immune to vulnerabilities. It is therefore important for the administrator of some composed service to evaluate the threats of such vulnerabilities accordingly within limited available information. Since almost all the existing efforts (e.g., CVSS) fail to consider specific context-aware information which is the specific character of SOA, they could not be adopted into SOA for scoring vulnerabilities. In this paper, we present VRank, a novel framework for the scoring and ranking of vulnerabilities in SOA. Different from existing efforts, for a given vulnerability, VRank not only considers its intrinsic properties (e.g., exploitability), but also takes into account the contexts of the services having this vulnerability, e.g., what roles they play in the composed service and how critical it is to the security objective of the service. The resulting scoring and ranking of vulnerabilities are thus highly relevant and meaningful to the composed service. We present the detailed design of VRank, and compare it with CVSS. Our experiments indicate VRank is able to provide much more useful ranking lists of vulnerabilities for complex composed services. © 2012 IEEE.; With the rapid adoption of the concepts of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), sophisticated business processes and tasks are increasingly realized through composing distributed software components offered by different providers. Though such practices offer advantages in terms of cost-effectiveness and flexibility, those components are not immune to vulnerabilities. It is therefore important for the administrator of some composed service to evaluate the threats of such vulnerabilities accordingly within limited available information. Since almost all the existing efforts (e.g., CVSS) fail to consider specific context-aware information which is the specific character of SOA, they could not be adopted into SOA for scoring vulnerabilities. In this paper, we present VRank, a novel framework for the scoring and ranking of vulnerabilities in SOA. Different from existing efforts, for a given vulnerability, VRank not only considers its intrinsic properties (e.g., exploitability), but also takes into account the contexts of the services having this vulnerability, e.g., what roles they play in the composed service and how critical it is to the security objective of the service. The resulting scoring and ranking of vulnerabilities are thus highly relevant and meaningful to the composed service. We present the detailed design of VRank, and compare it with CVSS. Our experiments indicate VRank is able to provide much more useful ranking lists of vulnerabilities for complex composed services. © 2012 IEEE.
关键词	Information Services Service Oriented Architecture (Soa) Software Reliability
主办者	IEEE Reliability Society
语种	英语
内容类型	会议论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/15754
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jiang Jianchun,Ding Liping,Zhai Ennan,et al. vrank: a context-aware approach to vulnerability scoring and ranking in soa[C],2012:61-70.