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.

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 to get access to additional detectors.

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 on 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.