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WebAssembly is quickly becoming a popular compilation target for a variety of code. However, vulnerabilities in the source languages translate to vulnerabilities in the WebAssembly binaries. This work proposes a methodology and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Weiqi Feng

WebAssembly (Wasm) is an emerging binary format that draws great attention from our community. However, Wasm binaries are weakly protected, as they can be read, edited, and manipulated by adversaries using either the officially provided…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Shangtong Cao , Ningyu He , Yao Guo , Haoyu Wang

As Internet censors rapidly evolve new blocking techniques, circumvention tools must also adapt and roll out new strategies to remain unblocked. But new strategies can be time consuming for circumventors to develop and deploy, and usually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Erik Chi , Gaukas Wang , J. Alex Halderman , Eric Wustrow , Jack Wampler

WebAssembly is an instruction set architecture and binary format standard, designed for secure execution by an interpreter. Previous work has shown that WebAssembly is vulnerable to buffer overflow due to the lack of effective protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Quentin Michaud , Yohan Pipereau , Olivier Levillain , Dhouha Ayed

Wasm runtime is a fundamental component in the Wasm ecosystem, as it directly impacts whether Wasm applications can be executed as expected. Bugs in Wasm runtime bugs are frequently reported, thus our research community has made a few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shangtong Cao , Ningyu He , Xinyu She , Yixuan Zhang , Mu Zhang , Haoyu Wang

Debugging and monitoring programs are integral to engineering and deploying software. Dynamic analyses monitor applications through source code or IR injection, machine code or bytecode rewriting, and virtual machine or direct hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elizabeth Gilbert , Matthew Schneider , Zixi An , Suhas Thalanki , Wavid Bowman , Alexander Bai , Ben L. Titzer , Heather Miller

In recent years, stealthy Android malware has increasingly adopted sophisticated techniques to bypass automatic detection mechanisms and harden manual analysis. Adversaries typically rely on obfuscation, anti-repacking, steganography,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Diego Soi , Silvia Lucia Sanna , Lorenzo Pisu , Leonardo Regano , Giorgio Giacinto

The emergence of WebAssembly allows attackers to hide the malicious functionalities of JavaScript malware in cross-language interoperations, termed JavaScript-WebAssembly multilingual malware (JWMM). However, existing anti-virus solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yifan Xia , Ping He , Xuhong Zhang , Peiyu Liu , Shouling Ji , Wenhai Wang

The increasing heterogeneity of hardware and software in the Internet of Things (IoT) poses a major challenge for the portability, maintainability and deployment of software on devices with limited resources. WebAssembly (WASM), originally…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mislav Has , Tao Xiong , Fehmi Ben Abdesslem , Mario Kušek

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a low-level portable code format offering near native performance. It is intended as a compilation target for a wide variety of source languages. However, Wasm provides no direct support for non-local control flow…

The inherent determinism of blockchain technology poses a significant challenge to generating secure random numbers within smart contracts, leading to exploitable vulnerabilities, particularly in decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Hadis Rezaei , Ahmed Afif Monrat , Karl Andersson , Francesco Flammini

Publish/subscribe systems play a key role in enabling communication between numerous devices in distributed and large-scale architectures. While widely adopted, securing such systems often trades portability for additional integrity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Jämes Ménétrey , Aeneas Grüter , Peterson Yuhala , Julius Oeftiger , Pascal Felber , Marcelo Pasin , Valerio Schiavoni

Software based fault isolation (SFI) is a powerful approach to reduce the impact of security vulnerabilities in large C/C++ applications like Firefox and Apache. Unfortunately, practical SFI tools have not been broadly available. Developing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Shravan Narayan , Tal Garfinkel , Sorin Lerner , Hovav Shacham , Deian Stefan

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed as a portable compilation target, which has been widely used on both the web and server sides in recent years. As high performance is a critical design goal of Wasm, it is essential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shuyao Jiang , Ruiying Zeng , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

Although the importance of using static analysis to detect taint-style vulnerabilities in Linux-based embedded firmware is widely recognized, existing approaches are plagued by three major limitations. (a) Approaches based on symbolic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Kai Cheng , Tao Liu , Le Guan , Peng Liu , Hong Li , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

Dynamic taint tracking is the process of assigning label to variables in a program and then tracking the flow of the labels as the program executes. Dynamic taint tracking for java applications is achieved by instrumenting the application…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Manoj RameshChandra Thakur

Binary rewriting is a widely adopted technique in software analysis. WebAssembly (Wasm), as an emerging bytecode format, has attracted great attention from our community. Unfortunately, there is no general-purpose binary rewriting framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Shangtong Cao , Ningyu He , Yao Guo , Haoyu Wang

Since the creation of Bitcoin, transaction tracking is one of the prominent means for following the movement of Bitcoins involved in illegal activities. Although every Bitcoin transaction is recorded in the blockchain database, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Tin Tironsakkul , Manuel Maarek , Andrea Eross , Mike Just

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) has emerged as a cornerstone of web development, offering a compact binary format that allows high-performance applications to run at near-native speeds in web browsers. Despite its advantages, Wasm's binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xinyu She , Yanjie Zhao , Haoyu Wang

Browser fingerprinting enables persistent cross-site user tracking via subtle techniques that often evade conventional defenses or cause website breakage when script-level blocking countermeasures are applied. Addressing these challenges…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami , Dylan Cutler , Igor Bilogrevic