<s>
RIPS	B-Application
(	O
Research	O
and	O
Innovation	O
to	O
Promote	O
Security	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
static	O
code	O
analysis	O
software	O
for	O
the	O
automated	O
detection	O
of	O
security	O
vulnerabilities	O
in	O
PHP	B-Application
and	O
Java	B-Language
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
initial	O
tool	O
was	O
written	O
by	O
Johannes	O
Dahse	O
and	O
released	O
during	O
the	O
Month	O
of	O
PHP	B-Application
Security	O
in	O
May	O
2010	O
as	O
open-source	B-Application
software	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
open-source	B-Application
version	O
is	O
released	O
under	O
the	O
Lesser	B-Application
GNU	I-Application
General	I-Application
Public	I-Application
License	I-Application
and	O
was	O
maintained	O
until	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2016	O
,	O
RIPS	B-Application
Technologies	O
,	O
a	O
company	O
based	O
in	O
Bochum	O
,	O
Germany	O
,	O
released	O
a	O
rewritten	O
version	O
of	O
RIPS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
new	O
RIPS	B-Application
product	O
overcomes	O
the	O
limitations	O
of	O
the	O
open-source	B-Application
tool	O
and	O
is	O
more	O
focused	O
on	O
industrial	O
customers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
analysis	O
techniques	O
were	O
awarded	O
,	O
amongst	O
others	O
,	O
the	O
Internet	O
Defense	O
Prize	O
by	O
Facebook	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
In	O
2020	O
,	O
RIPS	B-Application
Technologies	O
was	O
acquired	O
by	O
SonarSource	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
RIPS	B-Application
tool	O
is	O
no	O
longer	O
available	O
as	O
a	O
stand-alone	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
open-source	B-Application
version	O
tokenizes	O
PHP	B-Application
code	O
(	O
lexical	B-Application
analysis	I-Application
)	O
based	O
on	O
PHP	B-Application
's	O
tokenizer	O
extension	O
and	O
performs	O
semantic	O
analysis	O
to	O
build	O
a	O
programme	O
model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
strength	O
is	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
scan	O
PHP	B-Application
applications	O
very	O
fast	O
for	O
PHP-specific	O
vulnerabilities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
supports	O
the	O
detection	O
of	O
15	O
different	O
vulnerability	O
types	O
,	O
including	O
Cross-Site	O
Scripting	O
,	O
SQL	B-Language
Injection	I-Language
,	O
Local	O
File	O
Inclusion	O
,	O
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
interface	O
also	O
offers	O
a	O
list	O
of	O
scanned	O
PHP	B-Application
files	O
,	O
user-defined	O
functions	O
,	O
and	O
detected	O
sources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
weaknesses	O
of	O
the	O
open-source	B-Application
version	O
are	O
false	O
positives	O
due	O
to	O
the	O
lack	O
of	O
an	O
abstract	B-Data_Structure
syntax	I-Data_Structure
tree	I-Data_Structure
or	O
control-flow	O
graph	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
lack	O
of	O
support	O
for	O
object-oriented	B-Language
PHP	B-Application
code	O
can	O
lead	O
to	O
false	O
negatives	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
commercial	O
version	O
supports	O
the	O
analysis	O
of	O
PHP	B-Application
and	O
Java	B-Language
code	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
uses	O
abstract	B-Data_Structure
syntax	I-Data_Structure
trees	I-Data_Structure
,	O
control-flow	O
graphs	O
,	O
and	O
context-sensitive	O
taint	O
analysis	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
accurately	O
identify	O
even	O
complex	O
security	O
vulnerabilities	O
that	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
second-order	O
data	O
flows	O
or	O
misplaced	O
security	O
mechanisms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
RIPS	B-Application
found	O
critical	O
security	O
issues	O
in	O
popular	O
open-source	B-Application
projects	O
,	O
including	O
WordPress	B-Application
,	O
Joomla	B-Protocol
,	O
Magento	B-Application
,	O
phpBB	B-Application
,	O
Moodle	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Roundcube	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Contrarily	O
to	O
the	O
open-source	B-Application
version	O
,	O
the	O
commercial	O
version	O
supports	O
all	O
versions	O
of	O
Java	B-Language
(	O
up	O
to	O
11	O
)	O
,	O
PHP	B-Application
(	O
up	O
to	O
7	O
)	O
and	O
Node.js	O
,	O
industry	O
standards	O
such	O
as	O
OWASP	O
Top	O
10	O
,	O
ASVS	O
,	O
CWE	O
,	O
SANS	O
25	O
,	O
and	O
PCI-DSS	O
,	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
integrated	O
into	O
the	O
software	O
development	O
life	O
cycle	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
RIPS	B-Application
is	O
available	O
as	O
on-premises	B-General_Concept
software	I-General_Concept
and	O
as	O
Software-as-a-Service	O
.	O
</s>
