Top issues
Detected presence of severe vulnerabilities with active exploitation.
Causes risk: actively exploited vulnerabilities
vulnerabilities
Problem
Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known severe vulnerabilities. Available threat intelligence telemetry has confirmed that the reported high or critical severity vulnerabilities are actively being exploited by malicious actors.Prevalence in npm community
34 packages
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152 packages
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1955 packages
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777714 packages
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Next steps
We strongly advise updating the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.
Detected Windows executable files compiled without following the SDL best practices while using banned string functions.
Causes risk: misconfigured toolchains detected
hardening
Problem
Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is a group of enhanced compile-time checks that report common coding mistakes as errors. These checks prevent the use of hard-to-secure string manipulation functions. They enforce static memory access checks, and allow only the use of range-verified string parsing functions. While these checks do not prevent every memory corruption issue by themselves, they do help reduce the likelihood.Prevalence in npm community
0 packages
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0 packages
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31 packages
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3863 packages
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Next steps
It's highly recommended to enable these checks for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs.
To enable these checks, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.
In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable this feature by setting the compiler option /SDL to ON.
Detected presence of high severity vulnerabilities.
Causes risk: high severity vulnerabilities
vulnerabilities
Problem
Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as high severity.Prevalence in npm community
32 packages
found in
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168 packages
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2061 packages
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805890 packages
in community
Next steps
Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.
Update the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.
Problem
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. One or more embedded URLs were discovered to link to raw files hosted on GitHub. Attackers often abuse popular web services to host malicious payloads. Since code-sharing services URLs are typically allowed by security solutions, using them for payload delivery increases the odds that the malicious code will reach the user. While the presence of code-sharing service locations does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. An increasing number of software supply chain attacks in the open source space leverages the GitHub service to deliver malicious payloads.Prevalence in npm community
10 packages
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52 packages
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959 packages
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183909 packages
in community
Next steps
Investigate reported detections.
If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.
You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.
Consider an alternative delivery mechanism for software packages.
Detected Windows executable files that were compiled without following the recommended SDL process.
Causes risk: misconfigured toolchains detected
hardening
Problem
Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is a group of enhanced compile-time checks that report common coding mistakes as errors, preventing them from reaching production. These checks minimize the number of security issues by enforcing strict memory access checks. They also prevent the use of hard-to-secure string and memory manipulation functions. To prove the binary has been compiled with these checks enabled, the compiler emits a special debug object. Removing the debug table eliminates this proof. Therefore, this check only applies to binaries that still have their debug tables.Prevalence in npm community
0 packages
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0 packages
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64 packages
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10071 packages
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Next steps
You should keep the debug table to prove that the SDL process has been followed.
To enable these checks, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.
In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable this feature by setting the compiler option /SDL to ON.
Top behaviors
Tampers with system environment variables.
settings
Prevalence in npm community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
1 packages
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5 packages
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150 packages
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29118 packages
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Might contain potentially obfuscated code or data.
anomaly
Prevalence in npm community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
21 packages
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136 packages
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1248 packages
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390529 packages
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Queries the passwd database entry for a given user ID.
steal
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Behavior often found in this community (Common)
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Encodes data using the Base64 algorithm.
packer
Prevalence in npm community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
7 packages
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61 packages
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956 packages
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319930 packages
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Decodes data using the Base64 algorithm.
packer
Prevalence in npm community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
6 packages
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44 packages
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175209 packages
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Top vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Exploitation Lifecycle
(1 Active Vulnerabilities)
None
1 (1 Fixable)
CVE-2020-10531h
None
None
Exploits Unknown
Exploits Exist
Exploited by Malware
Patching Mandated