WACANA: A Concolic Analyzer for Detecting On-chain Data Vulnerabilities in WASM Smart Contracts
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| author | Wang, Wansen Tu, Caichang Meng, Zhaoyi Huang, Wenchao Xiong, Yan |
| author_facet | Wang, Wansen Tu, Caichang Meng, Zhaoyi Huang, Wenchao Xiong, Yan |
| contents | WebAssembly (WASM) has emerged as a crucial technology in smart contract development for several blockchain platforms. Unfortunately, since their introduction, WASM smart contracts have been subject to several security incidents caused by contract vulnerabilities, resulting in substantial economic losses. However, existing tools for detecting WASM contract vulnerabilities have accuracy limitations, one of the main reasons being the coarse-grained emulation of the on-chain data APIs.
In this paper, we introduce WACANA, an analyzer for WASM contracts that accurately detects vulnerabilities through fine-grained emulation of on-chain data APIs. WACANA precisely simulates both the structure of on-chain data tables and their corresponding API functions, and integrates concrete and symbolic execution within a coverage-guided loop to balance accuracy and efficiency. Evaluations on a vulnerability dataset of 133 contracts show WACANA outperforming state-of-the-art tools in accuracy. Further validation on 5,602 real-world contracts confirms WACANA's practical effectiveness. |
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| spellingShingle | WACANA: A Concolic Analyzer for Detecting On-chain Data Vulnerabilities in WASM Smart Contracts Wang, Wansen Tu, Caichang Meng, Zhaoyi Huang, Wenchao Xiong, Yan Cryptography and Security Software Engineering WebAssembly (WASM) has emerged as a crucial technology in smart contract development for several blockchain platforms. Unfortunately, since their introduction, WASM smart contracts have been subject to several security incidents caused by contract vulnerabilities, resulting in substantial economic losses. However, existing tools for detecting WASM contract vulnerabilities have accuracy limitations, one of the main reasons being the coarse-grained emulation of the on-chain data APIs. In this paper, we introduce WACANA, an analyzer for WASM contracts that accurately detects vulnerabilities through fine-grained emulation of on-chain data APIs. WACANA precisely simulates both the structure of on-chain data tables and their corresponding API functions, and integrates concrete and symbolic execution within a coverage-guided loop to balance accuracy and efficiency. Evaluations on a vulnerability dataset of 133 contracts show WACANA outperforming state-of-the-art tools in accuracy. Further validation on 5,602 real-world contracts confirms WACANA's practical effectiveness. |
| title | WACANA: A Concolic Analyzer for Detecting On-chain Data Vulnerabilities in WASM Smart Contracts |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03946 |