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javascript/ql/experimental/adaptivethreatmodeling/lib/experimental/adaptivethreatmodeling/ATMConfig.qll

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not exists(this.getAReasonSinkExcluded(candidateSink))
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}
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/**
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* Gets the list of characteristics that cause `candidateSink` to be excluded as an effective sink.
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*/
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final EndpointCharacteristics::EndpointCharacteristic getAReasonSinkExcluded(
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JS::DataFlow::Node candidateSink
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) {
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// An endpoint is an effective sink if it has neither standard endpoint filter characteristics nor endpoint filter
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// characteristics that are specific to this sink type.
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// TODO: Experiment with excluding all endpoints that have a medium- or high-confidence characteristic that implies
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// they're not sinks for this sink type (or not sinks for any sink type), not just the EndpointFilterCharacteristics.
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// An endpoint is an effective sink (sink candidate) if none of its characteristics give much indication whether or
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// not it is a sink. Historically, we used endpoint filters, and scored endpoints that are filtered out neither by
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// a standard endpoint filter nor by an endpoint filter specific to this sink type. To replicate this behaviour, we
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// have given the endpoint filter characteristics medium confidence, and we exclude endpoints that have a
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// medium-confidence characteristic that indicates that they are not sinks, either in general or for this sink type.
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exists(EndpointCharacteristics::EndpointCharacteristic filter, float confidence |
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filter.getEndpoints(candidateSink) and
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confidence >= filter.mediumConfidence() and
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// TODO: Experiment with excluding all endpoints that have a medium- or high-confidence characteristic that
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// implies they're not sinks, rather than using only medium-confidence characteristics, by deleting the following
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// line.
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confidence < filter.highConfidence() and
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(
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// Exclude endpoints that have a characteristic that implies they're not sinks for _any_ sink type.

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