SQ14105
Detected Windows executable files that do not implement the ASLR vulnerability mitigation protection.
| priority | CI/CD status | severity | effort | RL level | RL assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | pass | high | low | None | hardening: warning Reason: baseline mitigations missing |
About the issue
Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a vulnerability mitigation option that forces software components to load on a different memory base address each time they are used. This makes the memory layout unpredictable, and it is therefore harder for malicious code to be reliably injected during application runtime.
How to resolve the issue
- It's highly recommended to enable this option for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs. For best results, use ASLR together with Data Execution Prevention (DEP/NX).
- To enable this mitigation, refer to your programming language linker documentation.
- In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable ASLR mitigation by setting the linker option /DYNAMICBASE to ON.
Incidence statistics
ReversingLabs periodically collects and analyzes the contents of popular software package repositories for threat research purposes.
For every repository, the chart shows the percentage of projects that triggered the software assurance policy. In other words, it shows how many projects were found to have the specific issue described on this page.
The percentages are calculated from the total amount of packages analyzed:
- RubyGems: 174K
- Nuget: 189K
- PyPi: 403K
- NPM: 2.1M
Recommended reading
- What is runtime? (External resource - Stackpath)
- Base Address (External resource - techopedia)