We are excited to announce that our new State of Software Security (SOSS) report is officially available.
We encourage you to download the report and check out some of the key findings.
For instance, new Research Finds 20x Increase in Software Security Scanning Over the Past Decade.
New Veracode State of Software Security Report
Available Now: https://bit.ly/3tTHT2I
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This Is The Totally Hand Written Research Article On
Web Application Security
(Improving Critical Web-based Applications Quality Through In depth Security Analysis)
This Research Article Was Made By Me After The Hard Working Of One Month. Its Best And Suitable For Your Research Paper And Also Used In Class For Present It And For Submission.
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3) Cross-site scripting and SQL injection issues affected a higher percentage of government applications compared to other sectors.
4) Many Android applications contained hard-coded cryptographic keys, making security mechanisms vulnerable.
5) Independent security verification of third-party software is becoming more common across industries.
6) Developers with greater security knowledge tended to
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3. THE PROGRESS WE’VE ALL MADE 01
02 Executive Summary
03 The State of Software Security at a Glance
06 Introduction
08 How Software Development Has Changed
09 The Number of Applications Scanned Has Tripled
11 The Rise of Microservices
14 Increase in Median Scan Cadence
16 Organizations Are Using Multiple Types of Scanning
17 Software Bill of Mistakes
18 Organizations Heavily Leverage Open-Source Libraries
20 Most Developers Stick With the Same Libraries Year Over Year
22 Third-Party Libraries Have Fewer Flaws
24 The Flaws of Yesterday Are (Still) the Flaws of Today
26
The Lowdown on Static, Dynamic, and Software Composition Analysis
32 Fix Rate Comparisons by Scan Type
34 Capacity for Flaw Remediation by Scan Type
35 Where Do We Go From Here?
36
Most Organizations Using Veracode Security Labs
Are Fixing Flaws Faster
40 Conclusions
43 Appendix: Methodology
44 A Note on Mass Closures
Contents SECTION 01
SECTION 02
SECTION 03
SECTION 04
SECTION 05
SECTION 06
SECTION 07
4. VERACODE STATE OF SOFTWARE SECURITY REPORT
02
Executive Summary
VERACODE STATE OF SOFTWARE SECURITY REPORT
02
01
S
E
C
T
I
O
N
The world is becoming more connected
than ever before … Connectivity makes
our lives easier, but it also increases risk.
One security flaw can have a domino
effect, leaving software vulnerable all
across the globe.
But it’s not just increased connectivity
that’s shaping the security landscape —
it’s the hypercompetitiveness and the
need to constantly innovate. To move
faster, many development teams have
turned to native cloud technologies,
microservices architectures, and open-
source code to accelerate and scale their
efforts. Additionally, development teams
have adopted agile methodologies and
are automating as many steps in the
development process as possible.
While this evolution increases the speed
of the software development lifecycle,
it also introduces new complexities
and risks.
For our 12th
State of Software Security
report, we’ll explore these trends with
the help of the Cyentia Institute to assess
how the software security landscape is
continuing to evolve. Our goal is to help
you make informed decisions about your
software security program so that you can
minimize your risk and meet cybersecurity
regulations like those outlined in
the White House Executive Order on
Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
issued on May 12, 2021.
5. THE PROGRESS WE’VE ALL MADE 03
Similar to last year, we looked at the entire history of active
applications, not just the activity associated with the application over
one year. By doing so, we can view the full life cycle of applications,
which results in more accurate metrics and observations. Aside from
looking at the past, we also imagined the future by considering
practices — such as Veracode Security Labs training — that might
help improve application security.
The State
of Software
Security at
a Glance
THE PROGRESS WE’VE ALL MADE 03
Microservices
In 2018, roughly 20 percent
of applications incorporated
multiple languages. This year,
less than 5 percent of apps used
multiple languages, suggesting
a pivot to smaller, one-language
applications or microservices.
20%
5%
2018
2021
JavaScript, Python, and .NET have
seen declines in app sizes, indicating
a trend toward more microservices.
The Number of Apps
Scanned Has Tripled
Organizations are scanning,
on average, more than 17 new
applications per quarter. This
number is more than triple the
number of apps scanned per
quarter a decade ago.
2021
2011
3X INCREASE IN NUMBER
OF APPS SCANNED
6. VERACODE STATE OF SOFTWARE SECURITY REPORT
04
Scan Cadence
Continuous testing and integration, which includes security scanning in
pipelines, is becoming the norm. A decade ago applications were scanned
two or three times a year. Now, 90 percent of applications are scanned more
than once a week with the majority scanned three times a week.
VERACODE STATE OF SOFTWARE SECURITY REPORT
04
Flaw Prevalence
Third-party libraries
have fewer flaws.
of libraries used
had a known flaw
of libraries used
had a known flaw
35%
10%
2017 2021
INCREASE in the use
of multiple scan types
Multiple Scan Types
We’ve seen a 31 percent increase in the use of multiple scan types
between 2018 and 2021, with much of that gain coming from organizations
using the full suite of static, dynamic, and SCA scans.
2021
2010
20X INCREASE IN MEDIAN SCAN
CADENCE FROM 2010 TO 2021
31%
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Third-Party
Libraries
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On a positive note, there is a noticeable improvement in time
to remediation for third-party flaws. Back in 2017, it would
take over three years to get to the 50 percent (half-life)
closed point, and now it takes just over a year.
77%
of flaws in third-party libraries
remain unfixed after three months
3years
1 year
2017
2021
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Open Source
Open-source libraries are still
a significant cause for concern.
97%
of Java applications
are made up of open
source libraries
Veracode Security Labs
On average, organizations with Veracode Security Labs training
decrease their time to fix 50 percent of flaws by 35 percent.
35%
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In 2019, for our 10th
annual State of
Software Security report, we began
looking at the specific concerns
associated with the use of open-source
software and have been fortunate to
be able to map the complex landscape
of secure software development.
We’ve identified a few ideas that many
of our customers probably feel in their
hearts, and we confirm them with data
— things like scanning at a regular, rapid
pace is good.
Security debt can build over time, and
addressing it early can help mitigate work
down the road. Using multiple types of
scanning — static, dynamic, and software
composition analysis — can give a fuller
picture of an application’s security, and it
helps remediation happen more quickly
and more completely.
These things can help every application, even
those old creaky legacy applications, and
it’s been rewarding to be able to verify and
quantify the effect of what many developers
feel makes applications more secure.
Introduction
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So where does
that leave us for
this 12th
report?
We feel like we’ve quantified some of the mysteries about application security
with Veracode’s extensive data, and we could continue to do that. But we
think it behooves an industry to occasionally take a step back to try to get
a view of the past and take a look toward the future — to see where the
landscape has been steady and where it’s changed and to try to understand
which principles have stood the test of time and which have faltered.
So we’re going to do just that:
1 Look at the use of software analysis tools
We’ll start with a look at how people are using software analysis tools
and how that’s changed over the years. We’ll see development trends
reflected in those scans. We’ll look at how free and open-source software
continues to be integral (though variably so) to most applications.
2
Analyze flaws in software
Then we’ll look at how those development trends manifest themselves
in the flaws that get introduced into software.
3
Examine how flaws are fixed
Next, we’ll examine how things are fixed and whether developers
are getting better at fixing things.
4
Look to the future of secure software
Lastly, we’ll take a peek into the future and think about what exactly
developers can do to write more secure software. In particular, we’ll
see that the simple act of taking time to learn how to fix flaws helps
get them fixed faster and helps prevent future bugs from showing up.
Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane …
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How Software
Development
Has Changed
One of the advantages of serving the software
development community for so long is that Veracode is
able to see changes in development practices over time.
So rather than diving right into security this year, we want
to focus on how developers themselves are approaching
applications and how that’s changed.
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The Number
of Applications
Scanned Has
Tripled
First, we want to examine just how many applications developers are
scanning for flaws. Figure 1 shows that more applications are being
scanned than ever before. And the increase is not simply due to the fact
that there are more organizations. In the last year, most organizations are
creating, on average, more than 17 applications for scanning per quarter, up
from approximately five a decade ago. But why might this be the case?
We have two hypotheses:
1
Organizations are creating smaller, more modular,
applications that do a single thing.
2
Organizations are expanding the scope of their security
to lower-criticality applications.
Organizations are scanning, on average, more than 17 new
applications per quarter. This number is more than triple
the number of apps scanned per quarter a decade ago.
Figure 1: Application creation over time
Scanning
Average
0
5
10
15
20
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
WEEK APPLICATION FIRST SCANNED
NEW
APPLICATIONS
PER
ACCOUNT
NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS 10 200 500
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Very Low
Low
Medium
High
Very High
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
SCAN DATE
PERCENT
OF
APPLICATIONS
BY
CRITICALITY
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Figure 2: Application criticality over time
We actually see that the latter is not true in Figure 2. The distribution of app
criticality has been fairly constant, with some bumps along the way when new or
existing users onboard many applications (as was the case in mid-2020 when a single
user scanned a few hundred “Medium” criticality applications). The skew has been
pretty consistent over the last 10 years, with most applications having “High”
or “Very High” criticality, and only a handful registering “Low” or “Very Low.”
If developers are not simply scanning applications they considered unimportant
before, perhaps there is a profusion of new applications — smaller, more modular
ones. Some might call them “microservices.”
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The Rise of
Microservices
0%
10%
20%
30%
0
25
50
75
100
WEEK APPLICATION FIRST SCANNED
PERCENT
OF
MULTI-LANGUAGE
APPLICATIONS
INTEREST
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS 1 10 100
Google search interest
in “microservices”
Google search interest
in “microservices”
Figure 3: Use of multiple languages in new applications
Up until roughly 2018, there was a slow but steady increase in the number
of applications using multiple languages, up to a peak (excluding outliers)
of about 20 percent of apps incorporating multiple languages. But as the
notion of microservices gained favor and took over, there was a nosedive,
with less than 5 percent of applications currently using multiple languages.
So we see that developers are using one language at a time, but are their
applications getting smaller? Figure 4a says it’s complicated.
What defines microservices? They are collections of loosely coupled
applications, usually with a small codebase, that communicate via APIs.
The advantage of microservices is that it’s easier to work on the various parts
of an application if changing one part is unlikely to affect the other bits.
So how might we see this reflected among Veracode users? Well, we’d expect
applications to increasingly use one language and become smaller in size.
Figure 3 looks at the first part of that hypothesis.
In 2018, roughly
20 percent of applications
incorporated multiple
languages. This year,
less than 5 percent of apps
used multiple languages.
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Figure 4a: Application size over time
Java
0.01
1
100
C++
0.1
10
1k
2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021
PHP
0.001
0.1
10
2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021
JavaScript
0.01
1
100
2015 2017 2019 2021
Python
1
0.01
100
2017 2019 2021
DATE OF FIRST STATIC SCAN
MEAN
SIZE
(MB)
2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021
.NET
0.01
0.1
1
10
100
2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021
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0.01
0.1
1
10
DATE OF FIRST STATIC SCAN
SCAN
SIZE
(MB)
Android
2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022
Figure 4b: Android’s abrupt size shift
JAVASCRIPT
JavaScript applications have gotten
considerably smaller over time, possibly
with the inclusion of a more diverse and
robust library ecosystem.
PYTHON AND .NET
Both Python and .NET have seen
reductions in size, but that may be more
regression to the mean than a true trend.
C++ AND JAVA
Meanwhile, applications written in more
established languages like C++ and Java
have remained more or less the same
size over the past few years.
SCALA
Scala applications (not shown) have seen
a decline in size, and the popularity of
Scala compared to its more heavyweight
godfather Java may have something to do
with different architectural goals.
GO
Interestingly, Go (not shown), a language
commonly associated with microservices,
has actually seen an increase in
application size.
ANDROID
A quick aside on Android applications: Android
applications were getting increasingly large until the
release of Android N, which switched to an OpenJDK.
This allowed for significantly smaller application sizes
and was followed by another slow and steady increase.
We don’t think this is a trend, but it’s nice to see major
events in software ecosystems validated in data.
Applications written in a few languages we might
consider “good” for a microservice-type architecture
certainly have declined in size.
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Increase in
Median Scan
Cadence
“It is no longer sufficient to scan software as a pre-production
step in the last phase of the software development lifecycle.
Just as software is now deployed continuously, software
security scanning must also happen continuously as a fully
integrated part of the software development process.”
SAM KING, CEO, VERACODE
It’s been said that “software is eating the world.” We think it’s
probably also fair to say that “agile is eating the software world.”
Continuous testing and integration, which includes security scanning into
pipelines, is becoming the norm, and we can see that reflected in how often
users are scanning their applications. A decade ago users were averaging
two or three scans a year. Now, most are running daily static scans and
weekly dynamic scans. Software composition analysis (SCA) scans also occur
at least weekly. The sooner in the lifecycle you can discover problems, the
more likely you’ll be able to solve them quickly, before they become bigger
a problem down the road.
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DATE OF FIRST SCAN
MEAN
TIME
BETWEEN
SCANS
(DAYS)
0
1
10
100
1k
Manual
2010 2015 2020
Dynamic
2010 2015 2020
Static
2010 2015 2020
SCA Agent
2018 2020 2022
Figure 5: Scanning cadence over time
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But is scanning more good?
If you look back at SOSS volumes 9, 10, and 11, you’ll see that applications
that are scanned at a regular cadence fix more flaws faster than those that
are only scanned periodically. Security seems to prefer agile development.
Median Scan Cadence
2010
Median application was scanned less
than once a month (only 10 percent of
apps scanned more often than weekly)
2021
90 percent of apps scanned
more than once a week (majority
scanned three times a week)
20X
increase
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Organizations
Are Using
Multiple Types
of Scanning
Part of the advantage of the continuous integration paradigm is the
ability to easily add new components to the pipeline. Static testing?
A must. The use of dynamic analysis is growing as well, and since
we’re becoming more and more aware of the potential risks inherent
in open-source software, it’s a no-brainer that secure development
includes software composition analysis.
We’ve seen a 31 percent increase in the use of multiple scan types
between 2018 and 2021, with much of that gain coming from organizations
using the full suite of static, dynamic, and SCA scans. We’re not just
pointing this out as a random fact.
Organizations that used dynamic
in addition to static scanning
were able to remediate
50% of flaws
On average
24 days faster
And including SCA shaves off
another 6 days
LAST YEAR WE FOUND:
So fire up those
scanners, folks!
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Software Bill
of Mistakes
“In many respects, development
teams have shifted from writing
software to assembling software.”
CHRIS WYSOPAL, CTO AND CO-FOUNDER, VERACODE
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Organizations
Heavily Leverage
Open-Source
Libraries
JAVA
Java remains steadfastly mostly third-party code and has pushed
even more so in that direction in the last few years.
.NET
There is an interesting “shock” to the data for .NET: In mid-2020, we saw
an abrupt shift in the percentage of third-party code in .NET applications.
The relative time period coincides with the release of .NET 5 (formerly
.NET core), which integrated and unified a good amount of functionality
into a single framework. It’s good to see developers keep up with the
latest updates.
JAVASCRIPT AND PYTHON
JavaScript and Python show the barbell effect, with applications being
either mostly homegrown or mostly third-party libraries, causing the
trend line to bounce around the middle over time.
PHP AND C++
PHP and C++ remain relatively constant, leaning heavily toward
mostly homegrown code.
How has open-source, and, more generally, third-party software
changed over the last few years?
Last year’s report looked at the proportion of code included in each scan
that was third-party code versus homegrown. What we saw was interesting.
Most applications (depending on the language) had a kind of barbell effect,
being composed of almost entirely third-party code or almost entirely
in-house code.
There were of course some exceptions. Java’s OOP design philosophy
of gluing classes together until your code begins to look like a functioning
application makes code reuse a breeze. And why write your own classes
when there are perfectly good third-party ones freely available? The result
is that most of the code in Java applications comes from third parties. But
have those barbells evolved over time? Let’s take a look at Figure 6.
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0%
50%
100%
0%
50%
100%
0%
50%
100%
PROPORTION
OF
THIRD-PARTY
CODE
.NET
Python
C++
JavaScript
2019 2020 2021
Java
2019 2020 2021
PHP
Figure 6: Third-party code by language
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Most Developers Stick With the
Same Libraries Year Over Year
We are seeing some evolution in terms of how much third-party code
developers are using in each language.
Last year’s open source report looked at shifts in the use of vulnerable
libraries between 2019 and 2020. Since we’re focusing on how things have
evolved over as long a time period as the data can muster, we want to expand
that view a little bit here. Figure 7 takes a look at how the top 10 most popular
libraries across our six languages of interest have evolved over time.1
Figure 7 is what is referred to as a stacked area chart. Each band represents
the percentage of scanned repositories that are using a particular library.
The thicker the band, the more popular the library. When the overall height
of the chart increases, it indicates that those 10 libraries are all growing
in popularity. If libraries waxed and waned in popularity frequently, we
would expect to see large swells of color that might peter out over time.
We don’t see that in Figure 7, but rather mostly uniform popularity of
those top libraries.
We won’t spend a ton of time going over each wiggle. But what we do see
is that, for all the languages, the most popular libraries haven’t changed
all that much. Things like debug and inherits continue to be popular for
JavaScript though they may swap around the top few spots year over year.
The larger lesson here is that developers are going to stick with tried-and-
true libraries and likely aren’t going to attempt to refactor their code base
to pick up the latest hot commodity.
This is indeed what we saw in last year’s SOSS: Open Source Edition. Updates
happened slowly when libraries didn’t have flaws, but relatively quickly when
they did. As long as open-source developers continue to fix security flaws,
developers will keep on using those libraries.
2
A few notes on this figure. We are swapping Ruby in here for C/C++ as most C/C++ applications don’t use an explicit package manager and
instead use makefiles to see if appropriate libraries are present. This can make extracting what applications are using what libraries pretty
tough. We only have data going back to 2019 on .NET, so be sure to check the scales. Finally, the colors in this figure are used to differentiate
the individual libraries, but are reused for purely aesthetic reasons.
Keep on keeping on …
We found that
developers stick with
tried-and-true libraries
and rarely attempt to
refactor their code
base to pick up the
“coolest” or “most-
popular” libraries.
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Apache Commons Codec
Guava
Jackson-annotations
Jackson-core
jackson-databind
org.springframework:spring-context
SLF4J API Module
Spring AOP
Spring Beans
Spring Core
Java
RELATIVE
POPULARITY
Diagnostics.Debug
Globalization
IO
Newtonsoft.Json
Reflection
Resources.ResourceManager
Runtime
Runtime.Extensions
Text.Encoding
Threading.Tasks
.NET
2020 2021 2018 2019 2020 2021
certifi
chardet
idna
python-dateutil
pytz
PyYAML
requests
setuptools
six
urllib3
Python
2018 2019 2020 2021
diff-lcs
json
rake
rspec
rspec-core
rspec-expectations
rspec-mocks
rspec-support
Ruby
thor
tzinfo
2018 2019 2020 2021
doctrine/instantiator
php-file-iterator
php-text-template
psr/log
sebastian/diff
sebastian/environment
sebastian/exporter
sebastian/global-state
sebastian/recursion-context
sebastian/version
PHP
2018 2019 2020 2021
balanced-match
brace-expansion
debug
escape-string-regexp
glob
inherits
minimatch
minimist
ms
supports-color
JavaScript
2018 2019 2020 2021
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Third-Party
Libraries Have
Fewer Flaws
We’ve seen library usage evolve over time, though maybe not in a
nice smooth trend. But what implications does that have for security?
After all, that’s really what we’re here to talk about, right? Making
applications more secure. Even the federal government is taking notice
of this whole “third-party libraries might be risky, actually” idea.
The recent Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity lays out
the following about securing the software supply chain:
“The development of commercial software often lacks transparency, sufficient
focus on the ability of the software to resist attack, and adequate controls to
prevent tampering by malicious actors. There is a pressing need to implement
more rigorous and predictable mechanisms for ensuring that products function
securely, and as intended. The security and integrity of ‘critical software’ —
software that performs functions critical to trust (such as affording or requiring
elevated system privileges or direct access to networking and computing
resources) — is a particular concern. Accordingly, the Federal Government must
take action to rapidly improve the security and integrity of the software supply
chain, with a priority on addressing critical software.”
So are applications using more or fewer flawed libraries? As with many things in
our research, Figure 8 tells a language-specific story. (But before you dive into
Figure 8, notice that the vertical axes are different for different languages.)
There are clear trends for Java, JavaScript, and Python, and that trend is very
good, because it goes steeply down. In 2017 nearly 35 percent (on average)
of libraries used had a known flaw. In more recent years that has come down
to nearly 10 percent. JavaScript has gone from about 10 percent to less than
4 percent, Python from about 25 percent to nearly 10 percent, and Go (not
shown) from 7 percent down to 4 percent.
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.NET Java
0%
25%
50%
75%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
PERCENT
OF
VULNERABLE
LIBRARIES
2020 2021 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
PHP
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
2020 2021
Python
0%
20%
40%
60%
2018 2019 2020 2021
JavaScript
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
2018 2019 2020 2021
Ruby
0%
20%
40%
2018 2019 2020 2021
Figure 8: Percent of flawed libraries by language
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The Flaws of
Yesterday Are
(Still) the Flaws
of Today
This type of report would be
relatively easy to create if all — or
heck, even some — of the attacks
were fresh and new. The stories
would almost write themselves.
But history is teaching us that we
will experience the same types of
flaws year after year. Sure, there
are variations among languages
and things may shift around in
prevalence. But by and large, the
technical flaws themselves don’t
go away, and any changes we do
observe tend to evolve slowly.
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Take as an example Figure 9 (or really any of the upcoming plots). We pulled
out the flaws listed in the OWASP Top 10 and CWE/SANS Top 25 and those
classified as “High” criticality or above. If you look closely at each of those
over time, you’ll notice some peaks and valleys. But we want you to pull
back a bit, and perhaps squint your eyes so that you can see the overall
trend in these plots. Notice that, even though the lines may bounce around,
they are all slowly decreasing.
That’s good news: The trend across all the applications
is a general reduction in flaw prevalence.
Any Flaws
CWE/SANS Top 25
High Severity
OWASP
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
2016 2018 2020
PERCENT
OF
APPLICATIONS
Figure 9: Percent of applications with various flaw types in static analysis
The trend across all the
applications is a general
reduction in flaw prevalence.
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The Lowdown on Static, Dynamic,
and Software Composition Analysis
Even though we just said
you should take a step back
and look at the big picture,
we offer this next plot as an
example of both why that’s a
good thing and why you don’t
want to stop there.
As you look at the rankings in Figure 10 you’ll probably notice that CRLF
injection is more prevalent than information leakage. Maybe you find that
helpful, but as anyone who’s worked in more than one language will tell
you, each language has its own strengths and weaknesses, and this applies
to secure development as well. The development language matters when
it comes to the types of flaws introduced — at least for some of the
detection methods.
Therefore, it’s worthwhile to understand a bit about these methods
because it will help point us in the direction of further areas to investigate.
Static Analysis
Dynamic Analysis
Software Composition Analysis
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14.9%
18.8%
21.3%
23.5%
40.1%
42.4%
42.6%
43.5%
56.4%
60.4%
61.1%
64.7%
Time and State
Authentication Issues
Encapsulation
SQL Injection
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Directory Traversal
Insufficient Input Validation
Credentials Management
Code Quality
Cryptographic Issues
Information Leakage
CRLF Injection
Static Analysis
6.6%
6.9%
7.5%
10.1%
11.2%
41.8%
54.7%
57.1%
59.2%
72.5%
73.2%
96.6%
SQL Injection
Code Injection
Code Quality
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Session Fixation
Deployment Configuration
Authentication Issues
Encapsulation
Cryptographic Issues
Information Leakage
Insecure Dependencies
Server Configuration
Dynamic Analysis
2.5%
4.5%
10.5%
20.4%
24.9%
26.5%
28.8%
33.6%
34.9%
46.2%
48.6%
51.8%
Session Fixation
Numeric Errors
Buffer Overflow
Authentication Issues
Directory Traversal
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Command or Argument Injection
Cryptographic Issues
Code Injection
Encapsulation
Information Leakage
Insufficient Input Validation
SCA
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Static analysis looks directly
at the source code and thus
needs to know what to look
for in different languages.
It’s very strong at detecting
places where maybe memory
isn’t managed correctly or
input isn’t properly validated
or sanitized.
And given that, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the results of static
analysis are very dependent on the development language. It’s rather
common to find flaws with buffer/memory management in a language like
C++, but those are nonexistent in languages like .NET or Java, where those
functions are abstracted away from the developer. So even though CRLF
injection is the top flaw type for static analysis overall, it’s not even in the
top 10 flaws in C++ or PHP.
Figure 11 expands the list of static analysis flaws (the top graph in
Figure 10) in two different ways. First, it breaks out the flaws by language,
so the differences across languages become more apparent. (But note that
the vertical axis differs for different languages.) Second, it adds the element
of time. This enables us to see the trends and, again, if we pull back a bit
and squint through the details, it’s clear that most everything is trending
down over the past few years.
There are a few things worth calling out here that are not
trending down, though.
JAVASCRIPT
Has some growing challenges with identity management:
Both credentials management and authentication issues
are trending upward over time.
JAVA
And the overall declines across Java are clearly more pronounced
than the very subtle declines seen in PHP applications.
Static Analysis
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Figure 11: Software weaknesses found by static analysis by language
Code Quality
Credentials Management
CRLF Injection
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cryptographic Issues
Directory Traversal
Information Leakage
Insufficient Input Validation
SQL Injection
Code Quality
Credentials Management
CRLF Injection
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cryptographic Issues
Directory Traversal
Encapsulation
Information Leakage
Insufficient Input Validation
Code Quality
Command or Argument Injection
Credentials Management
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cryptographic Issues
Directory Traversal
Encapsulation
Information Leakage
Untrusted Initialization
Buffer Management Errors
Buffer Overflow
Code Quality
Cryptographic Issues
Directory Traversal
Error Handling
Numeric Errors
Potential Backdoor
Race Conditions
Authentication Issues
Code Quality
Credentials Management
CRLF Injection
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cryptographic Issues
Directory Traversal
Information Leakage
Insufficient Input Validation
Authorization Issues
Code Quality
Credentials Management
CRLF Injection
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cryptographic Issues
Directory Traversal
Information Leakage
Insufficient Input Validation
PHP Python
Java JavaScript
.NET C++
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
40%
60%
80%
0%
20%
40%
60%
20%
40%
60%
20%
40%
60%
80%
40%
60%
80%
0%
25%
50%
75%
PROPORTION
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Authentication Issues
Code Quality
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cryptographic Issues
Deployment Configuration
Encapsulation
Information Leakage
Server Configuration
Session Fixation
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2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Dynamic scanning takes
advantage of, and is run against,
the runtime environment.
Software composition analysis
is the third type of scan, and
it operates by tracking the
various open-source projects
and packages and then
identifying which are included
in the code base.
It doesn’t dive deeply into the idiosyncrasies of the underlying languages but
instead can find more flaws in the execution and interface of the code. Notice
the top types of flaws here generally don’t overlap with the static analysis
findings. Server configurations and information leakage were consistently the
leading categories of flaws found across all the underlying languages. The flaws
were so consistent across languages that it’s not worth showing the differences.
Each individual language looked like the overall trends shown in Figure 12.
This allows all the existing information in those libraries to be shared with
the developers. The flaws in third-party software can be reported from a variety
of sources such as static code scans, manual code review, security researchers
reporting flaws, etc. Once again, we find that these types of flaws vary by
language, as you can see in Figure 13 (but note that the vertical axis uses
different scales for different languages). Some languages (Java, JavaScript,
and Python) show clear declines while .NET and C++ don’t appear to show
that type of decline in their third-party libraries.
Figure 12: Software weaknesses found by dynamic analysis
Dynamic Analysis
Software Composition Analysis
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PROPORTION
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FINDINGS
Insufficient Input Validation
Cryptographic Issues
Command or Argument Injection
Directory Traversal
Authentication Issues
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Insufficient Input Validation
Information Leakage
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Encapsulation
Authentication Issues
Code Injection
Directory Traversal
Command or Argument Injection
Server Configuration
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Insufficient Input Validation
Code Injection
Command or Argument Injection
Cryptographic Issues
Information Leakage
Encapsulation
Directory Traversal
Authentication Issues
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Insufficient Input Validation
Cryptographic Issues
Code Injection
Directory Traversal
Command or Argument Injection
Encapsulation
Buffer Overflow
Information Leakage
Code Injection
Encapsulation
Authentication Issues
Command or Argument Injection
Insufficient Input Validation
Information Leakage
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Code Injection
Encapsulation
Cryptographic Issues
SQL Injection
Buffer Overflow
Command or Argument Injection
Figure 13: Software weaknesses found by SCA, by language
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Fix Rate
Comparisons
by Scan Type
We’ve spent our time up until now looking at applications, detection
methods, types of flaws and their prevalence, and how developers have
changed their security practices over time. But what about actually fixing
things? This is a good point to transition into thinking about how many flaws
are getting fixed and how quickly (or not so quickly). Anyone who’s been
reading our research for the last few years will surely recognize this next plot.
It looks at the millions of flaws we’ve been tracking and shows estimates for
how long any particular flaw will remain open. It factors in both the flaws
that have been remediated and those that have yet to be fixed to give us
a more accurate measurement of expected closure rates over time.
57%
77%
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HALF OF THE FLAWS from static analysis are closed
within the first 290 days, while half of the flaws from
dynamic analysis are closed in the first 143 days
77% of flaws in third-party libraries remain unfixed
after the FIRST THREE MONTHS, while only 57% of
flaws found through dynamic analysis are still around
This year’s research expands beyond just remediations for flaws found
through static analysis (we focused on that in previous years) and looks
at flaws discovered through dynamic analysis and SCA. Figure 14 shows
that dynamic flaws get fixed the fastest and SCA flaws the slowest, with
flaws from static analysis being fixed at a rate between those two.
Dynamic flaws get fixed the
fastest and SCA flaws the
slowest, with flaws from
static analysis being fixed at
a rate between those two.
Figure 14: Probability of flaw remaining open by scan type
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Remediation efforts
have slid back a bit for
static scans. In 2017,
half-life to remediation
was just under 200 days,
now remediation has
slowed down to just
under 300 days.
Let’s focus on the horizontal
dashed line at 50 percent shown
in Figure 14. It represents how
long it may take to close about
half the flaws, or what we can
call the “half-life” of a flaw.
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Dynamic Analysis
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
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2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
SCA
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
It may seem absurd that it can be over a year before even half the flaws
identified through SCA are closed — especially when we see flaws found
through dynamic analysis lasting just under 5 months for the same half-life
metric. But what if we told you that’s actually a great improvement? Take a look
at Figure 15, which tracks that half-life metric over time. With that historical
perspective, flaws found in SCA show a dramatic improvement. Back in 2017,
it would take over three years to get to the 50 percent (half-life) closed point,
and that’s been driven down to what we see today: just over a year.
After looking at the SCA flaws and feeling optimistic that things are
improving, take a look at the static scans. It looks like remediation efforts
have slid back a bit from an all-time low around 2017 with a half-life of
just under 200 days. Currently, remediation has slowed down to just under
300 days. Part of the challenge here is that the competitive market demands
timely releases, and software development teams are forced to make difficult
tradeoffs between a timely delivery and risk. Some flaws may be left
unaddressed to meet deadlines.
If we want to track speed to remediation, half-life is a good metric, but there
is a challenge in relying on it as a complete measure: It doesn’t account for
all the flaws being fixed in a given time period. In order to measure just how
many flaws are being fixed in a window of time, we must look at the overall
capacity that development teams have for fixing flaws.
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Capacity
for Flaw
Remediation
by Scan Type
To gauge capacity, we look at all the flaws facing a development team
in a given month and then see how many of those are fixed in that month.
Naturally, there are variations from application to application, but
Figure 16 captures the overall trend over the last five years.
The points in Figure 16 represent individual applications, and the lines
show the overall trend. Keep in mind that capacity here is looking at the
number of remediated flaws out of the total number of open flaws in a
given month. This gives us the percentage of flaws being fixed every month.
It’s good to see the remediation of both static flaws and SCA flaws in
any given month on the rise here even if the increase isn’t dramatic and
(according to Figure 15) it takes a little longer. The remediation of flaws found
with dynamic analysis has been bouncing around a bit, but we should see it
stabilize as we get more data.
Dynamic Analysis Static Analysis SCA
25%
50%
75%
100%
MONTHLY
CAPACITY
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Figure 16: Monthly capacity for flaw remediation by scan type
Overall, the signs here give us hope that there is a focus on
application security and that added attention is having a positive
impact on the security of our applications.
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Where Do We
Go From Here?
As we wrap up this whirlwind
tour of the evolution of software
security over time, let’s take a
look at the future and think about
what practices might be next in
improving application security.
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Most Organizations Using Veracode
Security Labs Are Fixing Flaws Faster
Here at Veracode, we don’t
want to simply point out, “Hey,
there’s a flaw here, you should
fix it” — we also want to help
developers better understand
how to fix those flaws and
avoid creating new ones in
the future. To that end, we’ve
established Veracode Security
Labs to give developers
hands-on experience fixing
common flaws.
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Figure 17: Time spent learning in Veracode Security Labs
Before you roll your eyes, we want you to know this isn’t just a pile of training
videos that developers are expected to slog through. Veracode Security
Labs lessons are fully realized example applications, written in a variety of
languages, with real flaws. The lessons help developers understand the flaws
by giving them hands-on experience actually exploiting them. Using real
code, developers are led through examples of specific coding flaws. They then
develop and execute exploits to build their intuition about security flaws.
And more importantly, developers write the patches that fix the flaws, giving
them valuable experience when they are alerted to flaws in their own code.
This is starting to sound like a marketing pamphlet, but we promise it’s not.
We want to know if this type of system can help developers fix flaws faster
and help prevent the creation of flaws in the future. Most lessons are short,
averaging less than an hour to complete.
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But do these efforts actually
make a difference in the
ability to fix flaws?
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Organizations with Veracode
Security Labs Training
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Security Labs Training
110 170
days it takes to fix
approximately 50% of flaws
days it takes to fix
approximately 50% of flaws
We looked at organizations that had completed some number of lessons and
compared the flaws that were found in their applications before the lessons
were completed to those that were found after.
Good news: Figure 18 indicates that flaws found after Veracode users
completed at least one lesson were fixed faster than those found when
developers had no such training. Specifically, 50 percent of flaws were fixed
within approximately 110 days by those with training, and 170 days without —
a two-month difference on average!
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So Veracode Security Labs training helps developers
fix flaws more quickly, but does it prevent the
creation of new ones?
To examine this:
1
We narrowed things down
to users who had scanned
applications both before
and after completing our
e-learning courses.
2
We then examined what
fraction of scans had flaws.
Figure 19 shows that for most languages, the percentage of static
scans that find flaws is reduced after some lessons are completed.
For JavaScript, this reduction is nearly 20 percent, while other languages
see a more modest reduction. There seems to be a slight increase for
C++, but it should be noted that it is not statistically significant, nor is
the small decline in PHP.
These results don’t point to this kind of training as a security cure-all,
but they do indicate that training benefits developers. This might seem
obvious: If developers have an opportunity to see flaws in a safe, guided
environment, they’ll be better equipped to fix things “in the wild.” But
for research reports like this, we don’t like to call anything “obvious”
until we’ve seen the data.
Of course there are some caveats to these early results. Given that an
organization likely has some inclination toward secure development to
even engage Veracode, a larger effect might be seen for developers who
never considered security scanning before. We are also painting with an
extremely broad brush here.
In the future, breakdowns of the types of lessons and the types of
real flaws fixed would give us a better understanding of where this
type of hands-on experience works best.
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77.1%
57.8%
JavaScript
96.5% 95.3%
PHP
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Python
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Conclusions
In some ways, it’s staggering to look back at the history of
software development through the lens of Veracode’s data.
For some of the results in this report, we were able to look
back nearly 16 years to the time the first applications were
scanned by Veracode customers. As new best practices,
different threats, and better capabilities have been
developed, we’ve gotten to take a look at more detailed
versions of the evolution of application security.
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Agile development of small, modular applications
has eaten the world.
We’ve seen an explosion in the number of applications being scanned.
Many are single languages, and applications in certain languages are
getting smaller. Maybe those folks at Bell Labs had some good ideas
back in the late 1970s.2
We’ve seen developers move from scanning their
applications once a quarter to once a day, as well as expand their use
of different scanning technologies.
Given that we know that more scanning using multiple tools means faster
fix times and less security debt,3
this shift can only be viewed as good for
the future of application security. It’s yet to be seen whether the pendulum
of history will swing back to monolithic applications and waterfall
development, but that doesn’t seem likely now.
Free and open-source code will continue to be
a blessing and a curse for developers.
We see no signs that the use of third-party libraries has changed
dramatically, or even the libraries developers are using. Developers appear
to be using fewer libraries with known flaws, and that’s cause for optimism.
2
The philosophy of the UNIX operating system has been highly influential throughout computing. Some innovations it can take credit for are things like hierarchical file
systems, multi-tasking, and multi-user systems. Here we refer to the idea that systems should be composed of small (even trivial), interchangeable programs that can
easily communicate. When these programs are composed they are capable of exceedingly complex tasks that might otherwise be difficult to achieve in a monolithic
program. We are seeing a reimagining of this idea here, with developers changing focus from large monolithic applications that do a wide variety of tasks to smaller
composable parts. Read more: Ritchie, Dennis M., and Ken Thompson. “The UNIX time‐sharing system.” Bell System Technical Journal 57, no. 6 (1978): 1905-1929.
Kernighan, Brian W., and John R. Mashey. “The UNIX™ programming environment.” Software: Practice and Experience 9, no. 1 (1979): 1-15.
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Veracode State of Software Security, volumes 9, 10, and 11.
So standing here in 2022,
what can we say we’ve learned?
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Applications are, slowly but surely,
getting more secure.
What is perhaps most heartening throughout this analysis is that,
nearly across the board, we’ve seen steady progress toward more secure
applications. While some subsets of flaws have increased in prevalence
over time, the trend has generally been downward. This is impressive,
given that the capacity for and speed of fixes hasn’t necessarily increased.
We’re hopeful this trend will carry on and that the future will continue
to look bright.
New tools will continue to help improve
the application security landscape.
In the past, we’ve noted that using different types of scanning means that
developers will fix all types of flaws faster and more completely. Having
these types of tools built into continuous integration pipelines and IDEs
will only speed developer adoption. In addition to that, tools like Veracode
Security Labs lessons may be even more impactful in helping developers
better understand the origin of security flaws and how to fix them or
prevent them from showing up in the first place.
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Our methodology for data analysis
diverged slightly from that used
for earlier volumes of the State
of Software Security. In previous
years, we would specifically
focus on applications that were
under active development from
a 12-month window.
This year, we wanted to get
a longer-term view, so the
core data represents the full
historical data from Veracode
services and customers.
Appendix: Methodology
This accounts for a total of:
• 592,720 applications that used all scan types
• 1,034,855 dynamic analysis scans
• 5,137,882 static analysis scans
• 18,473,203 software composition analysis scans
All those scans produced:
• 42 million raw static findings
• 3.5 million raw dynamic findings
• 6 million raw software composition analysis findings
The data represents large and small companies, commercial software
suppliers, software outsourcers, and open source projects.4
In most analyses,
an application was counted only once, even if it was submitted multiple times
as vulnerabilities were remediated and new versions uploaded.
For software composition analysis, each application is examined for
third-party library information and dependencies. These are generally
collected through the application’s build system. Any library dependencies
are checked against a database of known flaws.
The report contains findings about applications that were subjected to static
analysis, dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, and/or manual
penetration testing through Veracode’s cloud-based platform. The report
considers data that was provided by Veracode’s customers (application
portfolio information such as assurance level, industry, application origin)
and information that was calculated or derived in the course of Veracode’s
analysis (application size, application compiler and platform, types of
vulnerabilities, and Veracode levels — predefined security policies based
on the NIST definitions of assurance levels).
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4
Here we mean open source developers who use Veracode tools on applications in the same way closed
source developers do. This is distinct from the software composition analysis presented in the report.
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A Note on Mass Closures
While preparing the data for our analysis,
we noticed several large single-day closure
events. While it’s not strange for a scan to
discover that dozens, or even hundreds,
of findings have been fixed (50 percent
of scans closed fewer than three findings;
75 percent closed fewer than eight), we did
find it strange to see some applications
closing thousands of findings in a
single scan.
Upon further exploration, we found many
of these to be invalid. These large collections
of flaws were both added and removed in
single scans: Developers would scan entire
filesystems, invalid branches, or previous
branches, and when they would rescan the
valid code, every finding not found again
would be marked as “fixed.”
These mistakes had a large effect:
The top one-tenth of 1 percent of the
scans (0.1 percent) accounted for almost
a quarter of all the closed findings.
These “mass closure” events have
significant effects on measuring flaw
persistence and time to remediation
and were ultimately excluded from
the analysis.
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