Top Programming Languages That Generate Most Software Security Bugs #breaktheprivacy

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Short Bytes: In the past, time and again, people have called the scripting languages a root cause of software vulnerability and the latest Veracode results prove the same. Using a unique metric called Flaw Density per MB, Veracode has found that PHP is one of the major causes of software vulnerabilities.

 If we start investigating the root cause of the increasing vulnerabilities in CMS platforms like WordPress and Drupal, we’ll find that the root cause is their scripting language PHP. So, in order to find the languages that spawn most software bugs, security firm Veracode has analyzed 208,670 applications in the past two years and released the results.

The study methodology uses a unique metric called Flaw Density per MB. This measures the number of security issues found in each MB of source code. The report suggests that about 86% of the applications written in PHP have at least on XSS vulnerability and 56% of them have at lease one SQL injection bug

 Below is the list of top programming languages that generate most software security bug:


  • Classic ASP – with 1,686 flaws/MB (1,112 critical flaws/MB)
  • ColdFusion – with 262 flaws/MB (227 critical flaws/MB)
  • PHP – with 184 flaws/MB (47 critical flaws/MB)
  • Java – with 51 flaws/MB (5.2 critical flaws/MB)
  • .NET – with 32 flaws/MB (9.7 critical flaws/MB)
  •  C++ – with 26 flaws/MB (8.8 critical flaws/MB)
  •  iOS – with 23 flaws/MB (0.9 critical flaws/MB)
  • Android – with 11 flaws/MB (0.4 critical flaws/MB)
  • JavaScript – with 8 flaws/MB (0.09 critical flaws/MB)


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