ADsafety: Type-Based Verification of JavaScript Sandboxing

Joe Gibbs Politz, Spiridon Aristides Eliopoulos, Arjun Guha, Shriram Krishnamurthi

USENIX Security Symposium, 2011

Abstract

Web sites routinely incorporate JavaScript programs from several sources into a single page. These sources must be protected from one another, which requires robust sandboxing. The many entry-points of sandboxes and the subtleties of JavaScript demand robust verification of the actual sandbox source. We use a novel type system for JavaScript to encode and verify sandboxing properties. The resulting verifier is lightweight and efficient, and operates on actual source. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique by applying it to ADsafe, which revealed several bugs and other weaknesses.

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