/** * @name Improper validation of code-specified size used for array construction * @description Using a code-specified value that may be zero as the argument to * a construction of an array can lead to index out of bound exceptions. * @kind path-problem * @problem.severity recommendation * @security-severity 8.8 * @precision medium * @id java/improper-validation-of-array-construction-code-specified * @tags security * external/cwe/cwe-129 */ import java import ArraySizing import DataFlow::PathGraph class BoundedFlowSourceConf extends DataFlow::Configuration { BoundedFlowSourceConf() { this = "BoundedFlowSource" } override predicate isSource(DataFlow::Node source) { source instanceof BoundedFlowSource and // There is not a fixed lower bound which is greater than zero. not source.(BoundedFlowSource).lowerBound() > 0 } override predicate isSink(DataFlow::Node sink) { any(CheckableArrayAccess caa).canThrowOutOfBoundsDueToEmptyArray(sink.asExpr(), _) } } from DataFlow::PathNode source, DataFlow::PathNode sink, BoundedFlowSource boundedsource, Expr sizeExpr, ArrayCreationExpr arrayCreation, CheckableArrayAccess arrayAccess where arrayAccess.canThrowOutOfBoundsDueToEmptyArray(sizeExpr, arrayCreation) and sizeExpr = sink.getNode().asExpr() and boundedsource = source.getNode() and any(BoundedFlowSourceConf conf).hasFlowPath(source, sink) select arrayAccess.getIndexExpr(), source, sink, "The $@ is accessed here, but the array is initialized using $@ which may be zero.", arrayCreation, "array", boundedsource, boundedsource.getDescription().toLowerCase()