Joern - The Bug Hunter's Workbench

Joern is a platform for analyzing source code, bytecode, and binary executables. It generates code property graphs (CPGs), a graph representation of code for cross-language code analysis. Code property graphs are stored in a custom graph database. This allows code to be mined using search queries formulated in a Scala-based domain-specific query language. Joern is developed with the goal of providing a useful tool for vulnerability discovery and research in static program analysis.

Website: https://joern.io

Documentation: https://docs.joern.io/

Specification: https://cpg.joern.io

Requirements

• JDK 11 (newer versions might work, but have not been properly tested)
• optional: gcc and g++ (for auto-discovery of C/C++ system header files if included/used in your C/C++ code)

Quick Installation

wget https://github.com/joernio/joern/releases/latest/download/joern-install.sh
chmod +x ./joern-install.sh
sudo ./joern-install.sh
joern

Compiling (synthetic)/ammonite/predef/interpBridge.sc
Compiling (synthetic)/ammonite/predef/replBridge.sc
Compiling (synthetic)/ammonite/predef/DefaultPredef.sc
Compiling /home/tmp/shiftleft/joern/(console)

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If the installation script fails for any reason, try

./joern-install --interactive

QueryDB (queries plugin)

Quick way to develop and test QueryDB:

sbt stage
./querydb-install.sh
./joern-scan --list-query-names

The last command prints all available queries - add your own in querydb, run the above commands again to see that your query got deployed. More details in the separate querydb readme

Javasrc2cpg (a source-based frontend for Java)

See details in the javasrc2cpg readme