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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 PyPI community
4 packages
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33 packages
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174 packages
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3639 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 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 PyPI community
6 packages
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47 packages
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246 packages
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6306 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.
Detected Windows executable files compiled without following the SDL best practices while using banned memory 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 memory manipulation functions. They enforce static memory access checks, and allow only the use of range-verified memory access functions. While these checks do not prevent every memory corruption issue by themselves, they do help reduce the likelihood.Prevalence in PyPI community
2 packages
found in
Top 100
39 packages
found in
Top 1k
189 packages
found in
Top 10k
4600 packages
in community
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 plaintext credentials within network protocol strings.
Causes risk: web service credentials found
secrets
Problem
Various network communication protocols allow including plaintext authentication credentials. Information such as user names and passwords could be passed through a non-encrypted channel, and therefore intercepted by malicious actors. Credentials are considered secrets, and should be kept encrypted until they are used. This policy control matches the following URI pattern protocol://username:password@domain within any software package component.Prevalence in PyPI community
21 packages
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85 packages
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369 packages
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6869 packages
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Next steps
Review the reported matches. If the warning refers to a placeholder credential value, it can be safely ignored.
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. URL paths provide additional information to a web service when making a request. They are an optional, but an important part of the URL, as they may define specific content or actions based on the data being passed. Some parameters they pass might be considered sensitive information. Since path components are not encrypted this might cause sensitive information to leak. This issue is raised for URL paths than might contain information that attackers can easily intercept. Examples of sensitive information fields include passwords and other similar parameters.Prevalence in PyPI community
12 packages
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59 packages
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404 packages
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8958 packages
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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 removing all references to flagged network locations.
Top behaviors
Retrieves the name of the user associated with the process.
search
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
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Deletes files in Windows system directories.
file
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
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Decrypts data using the Windows Cryptography API.
packer
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Behavior often found in this community (Common)
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Creates a socket.
network
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
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Contains placeholders for IP addresses.
network
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
6 packages
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29 packages
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202 packages
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4366 packages
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Top vulnerabilities
No vulnerabilities found.