Sunday 28 October 2012

Starting to use the O2 Spring MVC viewer on ThreadFix

Using the Tool - O2 Cmd SpringMVC v1.0.exe  (see more details on this post: Tool - O2 Cmd SpringMVC v1.0.exe - as standalone exe) here is how to start using it on ThreadFix  from Denim Group ("ThreadFix is a software vulnerability aggregation and management system that helps organizations aggregate vulnerability data, generate virtual patches, and interact with software defect tracking systems.")

I downloaded the ThreadFix binaries from the download page : ThreadFix_1_0_1.zip
And since I couldn't find a download for the source code, I used git by executing: $ git clone https://code.google.com/p/threadfix/


Then I unzipped the ThreadFix_1_0_1.zip  files into a local folder and executed 'threadfix.bat'



This will start tomcat, and more importantly extract the threadfix.war file into the webapps folder, where I zipped the classes folder:


which I then dropped into the O2 Spring MVC tool:


The first time there is a source code to be opened in the document viewer area, you will be asked to resolve the files, which in this case it points to here:


Interestingly there is quite a lot meat here. For example, if you look for the ModelAttribute mappings there is quite a lot cases where they use this dangerous coding technique:


With some of the model classes looking quite big, there could be a number of spring mvc autobinding issues here: