Slither, the Solidity source analyzer

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. Slither enables developers to find vulnerabilities, enhance their code comphrehension, and quickly prototype custom analyses.

Features

Detects vulnerable Solidity code with low false positives
- Detection of most major smart contract vulnerabilities
- Detection of poor coding practices
Identifies where the error condition occurs in the source code
Easy integration into continuous integration pipelines
Four built-in 'printers' quickly report crucial contract information
Detector API to write custom analyses in Python
Ability to analyze contracts written with Solidity > 0.4

Support for advanced value- and taint-tracking is coming soon!

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: Excludes the detector name from analysis

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

How to install

Slither requires Python 3.6+ and solc, the Solidity compiler.

$ git clone https://github.com/trailofbits/slither.git & cd slither
$ python setup.py install

Getting Help

Feel free to stop by our Slack channel for help using or extending Slither.

The Printer documentation describes the information Slither is capable of visualizing for each contract.
The Detector documentation describes how to write a new vulnerability analyses.
The API documentation describes the methods and objects available for custom analyses.

License

Slither is licensed and distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Contact us if you're looking for an exception to the terms.

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