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Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

4 low priority mitigations absent

Threats

Tampering

No evidence of software tampering

Malware

No evidence of malware inclusion

List of software quality issues with the number of affected components.

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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 NuGet community

22 packages

found in

Top 100

461 packages

found in

Top 1k

3748 packages

found in

Top 10k

62.8k 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.

Problem

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Open source communities depend on the work of thousands of software developers that volunteer their time to maintain software components. Software developers build up the reputation of their open source projects by developing in public. Modern source code repositories have many social features that allow software developers to handle bug reports, have discussions with their users, and convey reaching significant project milestones. It is uncommon to find open source projects that omit linking their component to a publicly accessible source code repository.

Prevalence in NuGet community

99 packages

found in

Top 100

723 packages

found in

Top 1k

6007 packages

found in

Top 10k

575.57k packages

in community

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.

Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.

Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.

Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

Problem

Control Flow Guard (CFG/CFI) protects the code flow integrity by ensuring that dynamic calls are made only to vetted functions. Trusted execution paths rely on the ability of the operating system to build a list of valid function targets. Certain functions can intentionally be disallowed to prevent malicious code from deactivating vulnerability mitigation features. A list of such invalid function targets can include publicly exported symbols. Applications that enhance control flow integrity through export suppression rely on libraries to mark their publicly visible symbols as suppressed. This is done for all symbols that are considered to be sensitive functions, and to which access should be restricted. It is considered dangerous to mix applications that perform export suppression with libraries that do not.

Prevalence in NuGet community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

48 packages

found in

Top 1k

527 packages

found in

Top 10k

16.29k packages

in community

Next steps

To enable this mitigation on library code, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.

In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable CFG mitigation by passing the /guard:cf parameter to the compiler and linker.

Problem

Control Flow Guard (CFG/CFI) protects the code flow integrity by ensuring that indirect calls are made only to vetted functions. This mitigation protects dynamically resolved function targets by instrumenting the code responsible for transferring execution control. Higher-level programming languages implement structured exception handling by managing their own code flow execution paths. As such, they are subject to code flow hijacking during runtime. Language-specific exception handling mitigation enforces execution integrity by instrumenting calls to manage execution context switching. Any deviation from the known and trusted code flow paths will cause the application to terminate. This makes malicious code less likely to execute.

Prevalence in NuGet community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

51 packages

found in

Top 1k

558 packages

found in

Top 10k

16.98k packages

in community

Next steps

It's highly recommended to enable this option for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs.

To enable this mitigation, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.

In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable CFG mitigation by passing the /guard:cf parameter to the compiler and linker.

Problem

Digital signatures are applied to applications, packages and documents as a cryptographically secured authenticity record. Signatures verify the origin and the integrity of the object they apply to. The integrity validation relies on the cryptographic strength of the encryption and the hash verification algorithm. If either of the two is considered weak by current standards, there is a chance the signed object could be maliciously modified, without triggering the integrity failure check.

Prevalence in NuGet community

100 packages

found in

Top 100

899 packages

found in

Top 1k

8997 packages

found in

Top 10k

755.66k packages

in community

Next steps

Create signatures with strong ECC key-length of at least 224 bits, or RSA key-length of at least 2048 bits, and use SHA256 as the hashing algorithm. While encryption key-length upgrade does require you to obtain a new certificate, the hashing algorithm can freely be selected during signing.

With Microsoft SignTool, you can specify the hashing algorithm using the /fd SHA256 parameter.

Problem

Digital signatures are applied to applications, packages and documents as a cryptographically secured authenticity record. Signatures are made using digital certificates, which can either be purchased from certificate authorities or be self-issued. When a certificate is purchased from a certificate authority, the subject that requests it goes through an identity validation process. Depending on the certificate type, those checks can be basic or extended. Confirming the subject identity is a multi-step process, and the requesting subject can be mapped to its legal entity name only through extended validation of submitted documents. Extended identity validation typically costs more, and it takes longer for a certificate to be issued when this process is correctly followed.

Prevalence in NuGet community

100 packages

found in

Top 100

898 packages

found in

Top 1k

8984 packages

found in

Top 10k

754.38k packages

in community

Next steps

Consider the benefits of acquiring extended validation certificates. Operating systems tend to be more trusting of software packages signed in this way. Certain security warnings and prompts might also be automatically suppressed. This reduces the number of support tickets for organizations that opt to use extended validation certificates.

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List of software quality issues with the number of affected components.

Policies

Info

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

22 packages

found in

Top 100

461 packages

found in

Top 1k

3748 packages

found in

Top 10k

62.8k 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.

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

99 packages

found in

Top 100

723 packages

found in

Top 1k

6007 packages

found in

Top 10k

575.57k packages

in community

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.

Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.

Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.

Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

48 packages

found in

Top 1k

527 packages

found in

Top 10k

16.29k packages

in community

Next steps

To enable this mitigation on library code, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.

In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable CFG mitigation by passing the /guard:cf parameter to the compiler and linker.

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

51 packages

found in

Top 1k

558 packages

found in

Top 10k

16.98k packages

in community

Next steps

It's highly recommended to enable this option for all software components used at security boundaries, or those that process user controlled inputs.

To enable this mitigation, refer to your programming language toolchain documentation.

In Microsoft VisualStudio, you can enable CFG mitigation by passing the /guard:cf parameter to the compiler and linker.

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

100 packages

found in

Top 100

899 packages

found in

Top 1k

8997 packages

found in

Top 10k

755.66k packages

in community

Next steps

With Microsoft SignTool, you can specify the hashing algorithm using the /fd SHA256 parameter.

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

100 packages

found in

Top 100

898 packages

found in

Top 1k

8984 packages

found in

Top 10k

754.38k packages

in community

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

Problem

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TH30112Detected presence of software components without a declared source code repository.hunting

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SQ14125Detected Windows shared library files that do not suppress exports which reduces CFG vulnerability mitigation protection effectiveness.Causes risk: low priority mitigations absenthardening

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

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SQ14127Detected Windows executable files that do not implement long jump control flow vulnerability mitigation protection.Causes risk: low priority mitigations absenthardening

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

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SQ20119Detected digital signatures that rely on a weak digest algorithm for integrity validation.signatures

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

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SQ20121Detected digital signatures that have not been performed with an extended validation certificate.signatures

Problem

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Did you know...

TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

Next steps

TH30112Detected presence of software components without a declared source code repository.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

Next steps

SQ14125Detected Windows shared library files that do not suppress exports which reduces CFG vulnerability mitigation protection effectiveness.Causes risk: low priority mitigations absenthardening

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

Next steps

SQ14127Detected Windows executable files that do not implement long jump control flow vulnerability mitigation protection.Causes risk: low priority mitigations absenthardening

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

Next steps

SQ20119Detected digital signatures that rely on a weak digest algorithm for integrity validation.signatures

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

Next steps

SQ20121Detected digital signatures that have not been performed with an extended validation certificate.signatures

Problem

Prevalence in NuGet community

Next steps