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Smart-Diff Weighted Impact Index (WII)

Source Advisory: docs/product-advisories/unprocessed/16-Dec-2025 - SmartDiff Meets CallStack Reachability.md
Status: Processed 2025-12-17

Overview

The Weighted Impact Index (WII) is a composite score (0-100) that combines Smart-Diff semantic analysis with call-stack reachability to measure the runtime risk of code changes. It proves not just "what changed" but "how risky the change is in reachable code."

Core Concepts

Inputs

  1. Smart-Diff Output - Semantic differences between artifact states
  2. Call Graph - Symbol nodes with call edges
  3. Entrypoints - HTTP routes, jobs, message handlers
  4. Runtime Heat - pprof, APM, or eBPF execution frequency data
  5. Advisory Data - CVSS v4, EPSS v4 scores

WII Scoring Model

The WII uses 8 weighted features per diff unit:

Feature Weight Description
Δreach_len 0.25 Change in shortest reachable path length
Δlib_depth 0.10 Change in library call depth
exposure 0.15 Public/external-facing API
privilege 0.15 Path crosses privileged sinks
hot_path 0.15 Frequently executed (runtime evidence)
cvss_v4 0.10 Normalized CVSS v4 severity
epss_v4 0.10 Exploit probability
guard_coverage -0.10 Sanitizers/validations reduce score

Determinism Bonus

When reachability == true AND (cvss_v4 > 0.7 OR epss_v4 > 0.5), add +5 bonus for "evidence-linked determinism."

Formula

WII = clamp(0, 1, Σ(w_i × feature_i_normalized)) × 100

Data Structures

DiffUnit

{
  "unitId": "pkg:npm/lodash@4.17.21#function:merge",
  "change": "modified",
  "before": {"hash": "sha256:abc...", "attrs": {}},
  "after": {"hash": "sha256:def...", "attrs": {}},
  "features": {
    "reachable": true,
    "reachLen": 3,
    "libDepth": 2,
    "exposure": true,
    "privilege": false,
    "hotPath": true,
    "cvssV4": 0.75,
    "epssV4": 0.45,
    "guardCoverage": false
  },
  "wii": 68
}

Artifact-Level WII

Two metrics for artifact-level impact:

  • max(WII_unit) - Spike impact (single highest risk change)
  • p95(WII_unit) - Broad impact (distribution of risk)

DSSE Attestation

The WII is emitted as a DSSE-signed attestation:

{
  "_type": "https://in-toto.io/Statement/v1",
  "subject": [{"name": "ghcr.io/acme/app:1.9.3", "digest": {"sha256": "..."}}],
  "predicateType": "https://stella-ops.org/attestations/smart-diff-wii@v1",
  "predicate": {
    "artifactBefore": {"digest": {"sha256": "..."}},
    "artifactAfter": {"digest": {"sha256": "..."}},
    "evidence": {
      "sbomBefore": {"digest": {"sha256": "..."}},
      "sbomAfter": {"digest": {"sha256": "..."}},
      "callGraph": {"digest": {"sha256": "..."}},
      "runtimeHeat": {"optional": true, "digest": {"sha256": "..."}}
    },
    "units": [...],
    "aggregateWII": {
      "max": 85,
      "p95": 62,
      "mean": 45
    }
  }
}

Pipeline Integration

  1. Collect - Build call graph, import SBOMs, CVE/EPSS data
  2. Diff - Run Smart-Diff to generate DiffUnit[]
  3. Enrich - Query reachability engine per unit
  4. Score - Compute per-unit and aggregate WII
  5. Attest - Emit DSSE statement with evidence URIs
  6. Store - Proof-Market Ledger (Rekor) + PostgreSQL

Use Cases

CI/CD Gates

# .github/workflows/security.yml
- name: Smart-Diff WII Check
  run: |
    stellaops smart-diff \
      --base ${{ env.BASE_IMAGE }} \
      --target ${{ env.TARGET_IMAGE }} \
      --wii-threshold 70 \
      --fail-on-threshold

Risk Prioritization

Sort changes by WII for review prioritization:

stellaops smart-diff show \
  --sort wii \
  --format table

Attestation Verification

stellaops verify-attestation \
  --input smart-diff-wii.json \
  --predicate-type smart-diff-wii@v1