# Slither, the Solidity source analyzer
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Slither is a Solidity static analysis framework written in Python 3. It runs a suite of vulnerability detectors, prints visual information about contract details, and provides an API to easily write custom analyses.
## Features
With Slither you can:
- **Detect vulnerabilities**.
- **Speed up your understanding** of code.
- **Build custom analyses** to answer specific questions.
- **Quickly prototype** a new static analysis techniques.
Slither can analyze contracts written with Solidity > 0.4.
## Usage
```
$ slither tests/uninitialized.sol
[..]
INFO:Detectors:Uninitialized state variables in tests/uninitialized.sol, Contract: Uninitialized, Vars: destination, Used in ['transfer']
[..]
```
If Slither is run on a directory, it will run on every `.sol` file of the directory. All vulnerability checks are run by default.
### Configuration
* `--solc SOLC` : Path to `solc` (default 'solc').
* `--solc-args SOLC_ARGS` : Add custom solc arguments. `SOLC_ARGS` can contain multiple arguments.
* `--disable-solc-warnings` : Do not print solc warnings.
* `--solc-ast` : Use the solc AST file as input (`solc file.sol --ast-json > file.ast.json`).
* `--json FILE` : Export results as JSON.
* `--exclude-name` will exclude the detector `name` .
### Printers
* `--printer-summary` : Print a summary of the contracts.
* `--printer-quick-summary` : Print a quick summary of the contracts.
* `--printer-inheritance` : Print the inheritance graph.
* `--printer-vars-and-auth` : Print the variables written and the check on `msg.sender` of each function.
## Checks available
By default, all the checks are run.
Check | Purpose | Impact | Confidence
--- | --- | --- | ---
`--detect-uninitialized-state` | Detect uninitialized state variables | High | High
`--detect-uninitialized-storage` | Detect uninitialized storage variables | High | High
`--detect-reentrancy` | Detect if different pragma directives are used | High | Medium
`--detect-tx-origin` | Detect dangerous usage of `tx.origin` | Medium | Medium
`--detect-pragma` | Detect if different pragma directives are used | Informational | High
`--detect-solc-version` | Detect if an old version of Solidity is used (< 0.4.23 ) | Informational | High
[Contact us ](https://www.trailofbits.com/contact/ ) to get access to additional detectors.
## How to install
Slither requires Python 3.6+ and [solc ](https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/ ), the Solidity compiler.
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$ pip install slither-analyzer
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```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/trailofbits/slither.git & cd slither
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## Getting Help
Feel free to stop by our [Slack channel ](https://empirehacking.slack.com/messages/C7KKY517H/ ) for help on using or extending Slither.
* The [Printer documentation ](https://github.com/trailofbits/slither/wiki/Printer-documentation ) describes the information Slither is capable of visualizing for each contract.
* The [Detector documentation ](https://github.com/trailofbits/slither/wiki/Adding-a-new-detector ) describes how to write a new vulnerability analyses.
* The [API documentation ](https://github.com/trailofbits/slither/wiki/API-examples ) describes the methods and objects available for custom analyses.
## License
Slither is licensed and distributed under the AGPLv3 license. [Contact us ](mailto:opensource@trailofbits.com ) if you're looking for an exception to the terms.
