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ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications
Summary: ACIDRain formalizes concurrency exploits in database-backed apps under weak isolation, enabling programmable API attacks. We introduce Abstract Anomaly Detection (2AD), a language-agnostic dynamic-trace method to detect isolation anomalies; tested on 12 apps across four languages, exposing 22 ACIDRain attacks.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 5414
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2017
- Pagerank
- 9.8619045e-05
- Overall Rank
- 1,985 | 86.21%
- DOI
-
10.1145/3035918.3064037
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2022 |
SIGMOD |
5.3080741e-05 |
| 6,236 |
IPA: Invariant-Preserving Applications for Weakly Consistent Replicated Databases |
2019 |
VLDB |
5.1373428e-05 |
| 7,617 |
Developer’s Responsibility or Database’s Responsibility? Rethinking Concurrency Control in Databases |
2023 |
CIDR |
4.6901099e-05 |
| 8,147 |
Litmus: Towards a Practical Database Management System with Verifiable ACID Properties and Transaction Correctness |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
4.5719001e-05 |
| 8,480 |
Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data |
2024 |
VLDB |
4.4967501e-05 |
| 8,798 |
Efficient Black-box Checking of Snapshot Isolation in Databases |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.4443524e-05 |
| 9,744 |
GTX: A Write-Optimized Latch-free Graph Data System with Transactional Support |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.2856385e-05 |
| 9,869 |
Are Database System Researchers Making Correct Assumptions About Transaction Workloads? |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.2626861e-05 |
| 10,178 |
LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right |
2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,895 |
Chablis: Fast and General Transactions in Geo-Distributed Systems |
2024 |
CIDR |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,398 |
A Demonstration of Multi-Region CockroachDB |
2022 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,410 |
IsoBugView: Interactively Debugging Isolation Bugs in Database Applications |
2022 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
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