---
_id: '52660'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the primary mechanism developers
use to obtain access to third-party algorithms and services. Unfortunately, APIs
can be misused, which can have catastrophic consequences, especially if the APIs
provide security-critical functionalities like cryptography. Understanding what
API misuses are, and how they are caused, is important to prevent them, eg, with
API misuse detectors. However, definitions for API misuses and related terms in
literature vary. This paper presents a systematic literature review to clarify
these terms and introduces FUM, a novel Framework for API Usage constraint and
Misuse classification. The literature review revealed that API misuses are violations
of API usage constraints. To address this, we provide unified definitions and
use them to derive FUM. To assess the extent to which FUM aids in determining
and guiding the improvement of an API misuses detector’s capabilities, we performed
a case study on the state-of the-art misuse detection tool CogniCrypt. The study
showed that FUM can be used to properly assess CogniCrypt’s capabilities, identify
weaknesses and assist in deriving mitigations and improvements.
author:
- first_name: Michael
full_name: Schlichtig, Michael
id: '32312'
last_name: Schlichtig
orcid: 0000-0001-6600-6171
- first_name: Steffen
full_name: Sassalla, Steffen
last_name: Sassalla
- first_name: Krishna
full_name: Narasimhan, Krishna
last_name: Narasimhan
- first_name: Eric
full_name: Bodden, Eric
id: '59256'
last_name: Bodden
orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
ama: 'Schlichtig M, Sassalla S, Narasimhan K, Bodden E. Introducing FUM: A Framework
for API Usage Constraint and Misuse Classification. In: Software Engineering
2023. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.; 2023:105–106.'
apa: 'Schlichtig, M., Sassalla, S., Narasimhan, K., & Bodden, E. (2023). Introducing
FUM: A Framework for API Usage Constraint and Misuse Classification. In Software
Engineering 2023 (pp. 105–106). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.'
bibtex: '@inbook{Schlichtig_Sassalla_Narasimhan_Bodden_2023, place={Bonn}, title={Introducing
FUM: A Framework for API Usage Constraint and Misuse Classification}, booktitle={Software
Engineering 2023}, publisher={Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.}, author={Schlichtig,
Michael and Sassalla, Steffen and Narasimhan, Krishna and Bodden, Eric}, year={2023},
pages={105–106} }'
chicago: 'Schlichtig, Michael, Steffen Sassalla, Krishna Narasimhan, and Eric Bodden.
“Introducing FUM: A Framework for API Usage Constraint and Misuse Classification.”
In Software Engineering 2023, 105–106. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik
e.V., 2023.'
ieee: 'M. Schlichtig, S. Sassalla, K. Narasimhan, and E. Bodden, “Introducing FUM:
A Framework for API Usage Constraint and Misuse Classification,” in Software
Engineering 2023, Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2023, pp. 105–106.'
mla: 'Schlichtig, Michael, et al. “Introducing FUM: A Framework for API Usage Constraint
and Misuse Classification.” Software Engineering 2023, Gesellschaft für
Informatik e.V., 2023, pp. 105–106.'
short: 'M. Schlichtig, S. Sassalla, K. Narasimhan, E. Bodden, in: Software Engineering
2023, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Bonn, 2023, pp. 105–106.'
date_created: 2024-03-20T09:22:27Z
date_updated: 2024-03-20T09:25:46Z
department:
- _id: '76'
keyword:
- API misuses API usage constraints
- classification framework
- API misuse detection
- static analysis
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- url: https://dl.gi.de/items/c4825557-cf3d-4038-933a-d8f95fd324a2
page: 105–106
place: Bonn
publication: Software Engineering 2023
publication_identifier:
isbn:
- 978-3-88579-726-5
publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
status: public
title: 'Introducing FUM: A Framework for API Usage Constraint and Misuse Classification'
type: book_chapter
user_id: '32312'
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...
---
_id: '31133'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the primary mechanism that developers
use to obtain access to third-party algorithms and services. Unfortunately, APIs
can be misused, which can have catastrophic consequences, especially if the APIs
provide security-critical functionalities like cryptography. Understanding what
API misuses are, and for what reasons they are caused, is important to prevent
them, e.g., with API misuse detectors. However, definitions and nominations for
API misuses and related terms in literature vary and are diverse. This paper addresses
the problem of scattered knowledge and definitions of API misuses by presenting
a systematic literature review on the subject and introducing FUM, a novel Framework
for API Usage constraint and Misuse classification. The literature review revealed
that API misuses are violations of API usage constraints. To capture this, we
provide unified definitions and use them to derive FUM. To assess the extent to
which FUM aids in determining and guiding the improvement of an API misuses detectors'
capabilities, we performed a case study on CogniCrypt, a state-of-the-art misuse
detector for cryptographic APIs. The study showed that FUM can be used to properly
assess CogniCrypt's capabilities, identify weaknesses and assist in deriving mitigations
and improvements. And it appears that also more generally FUM can aid the development
and improvement of misuse detection tools.
author:
- first_name: Michael
full_name: Schlichtig, Michael
id: '32312'
last_name: Schlichtig
orcid: 0000-0001-6600-6171
- first_name: Steffen
full_name: Sassalla, Steffen
last_name: Sassalla
- first_name: Krishna
full_name: Narasimhan, Krishna
last_name: Narasimhan
- first_name: Eric
full_name: Bodden, Eric
id: '59256'
last_name: Bodden
orcid: 0000-0003-3470-3647
citation:
ama: 'Schlichtig M, Sassalla S, Narasimhan K, Bodden E. FUM - A Framework for API
Usage constraint and Misuse Classification. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference
on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). ; 2022:673-684.
doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00085'
apa: Schlichtig, M., Sassalla, S., Narasimhan, K., & Bodden, E. (2022). FUM
- A Framework for API Usage constraint and Misuse Classification. 2022 IEEE
International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER),
673–684. https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00085
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Schlichtig_Sassalla_Narasimhan_Bodden_2022, title={FUM -
A Framework for API Usage constraint and Misuse Classification}, DOI={https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00085},
booktitle={2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution
and Reengineering (SANER)}, author={Schlichtig, Michael and Sassalla, Steffen
and Narasimhan, Krishna and Bodden, Eric}, year={2022}, pages={673–684} }'
chicago: Schlichtig, Michael, Steffen Sassalla, Krishna Narasimhan, and Eric Bodden.
“FUM - A Framework for API Usage Constraint and Misuse Classification.” In 2022
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering
(SANER), 673–84, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00085.
ieee: 'M. Schlichtig, S. Sassalla, K. Narasimhan, and E. Bodden, “FUM - A Framework
for API Usage constraint and Misuse Classification,” in 2022 IEEE International
Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2022,
pp. 673–684, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00085.'
mla: Schlichtig, Michael, et al. “FUM - A Framework for API Usage Constraint and
Misuse Classification.” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis,
Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2022, pp. 673–84, doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00085.
short: 'M. Schlichtig, S. Sassalla, K. Narasimhan, E. Bodden, in: 2022 IEEE International
Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2022, pp.
673–684.'
date_created: 2022-05-09T13:04:10Z
date_updated: 2022-07-26T11:42:30Z
department:
- _id: '76'
doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00085
keyword:
- API misuses
- API usage constraints
- classification framework
- API misuse detection
- static analysis
language:
- iso: eng
page: 673 - 684
publication: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and
Reengineering (SANER)
quality_controlled: '1'
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- relation: confirmation
url: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9825763
status: public
title: FUM - A Framework for API Usage constraint and Misuse Classification
type: conference
user_id: '32312'
year: '2022'
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