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f5-logger

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F5 Security Research Placeholder
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Published: about 20 hours ago
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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses
No license compliance issues
Secrets
No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities
No known vulnerabilities detected
Hardening
No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering
No evidence of software tampering
Malware
No evidence of malware inclusion

Popularity

N/A
Total Downloads
1
Contributor
0
Declared Dependencies
0
Dependents

Top issues

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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. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community, it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of being the first to try out a new project lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages
found in
Top 100
0 packages
found in
Top 1k
5 packages
found in
Top 10k
38.63k 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

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. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. Developers that use open source components within their applications can specify the exact version of the component their application depends on. However, since components are frequently updated, some developers opt to always use the latest version of the software component. This helps reduce the number of vulnerabilities that open source components can introduce in the application. However, it does expose the developer and the build environment to risks associated with software supply chain attacks. Should a threat actor hijack the ownership of the software component publishing account, or even its publishing token, they could issue a malicious update that can infect the build environment or the application itself. To ensure that the build system updates the software component to a malicious version, threat actors often set the version number to an unusually high value. If a build system is instructed to use the latest component version, it will install the component with the highest version number, and execute its code.

Prevalence in PyPI community

0 packages
found in
Top 100
1 packages
found in
Top 1k
7 packages
found in
Top 10k
492 packages
in community

Next steps

Review software component versions to ensure there were no accidental code updates.
If the software component versions differ from expected, investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.
Consider pinning the software component version to prevent accidental code updates.
Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

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. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community. it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of using components that are rarely used to build applications lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.

Prevalence in PyPI community

1 packages
found in
Top 100
11 packages
found in
Top 1k
910 packages
found in
Top 10k
717.09k 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

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 PyPI community

70 packages
found in
Top 100
472 packages
found in
Top 1k
4207 packages
found in
Top 10k
413.79k 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.

Top behaviors

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Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior commonly used by malicious software (Important)
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
0 packages
found in
Top 100
1 packages
found in
Top 1k
7 packages
found in
Top 10k
492 packages
in community

Prevalence in PyPI community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
70 packages
found in
Top 100
472 packages
found in
Top 1k
4207 packages
found in
Top 10k
413.79k packages
in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

FAQ for f5-logger

What is f5-logger?

F5 Security Research Placeholder.

Is f5-logger malicious or is it safe to use?

The Python package f5-logger was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. No risks were detected, therefore, this version of the package is currently considered as safe to use. Caution is advised as this package is still in review by ReversingLabs threat researchers for inclusion of novel supply chain threats.

Is f5-logger popular?

The Python package f5-logger is not widely used. A package's popularity is not a good indicator of its safety, visit the SAFE Assessment section to see the full analysis of package deployment risk categories.

How do I secure f5-logger once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how f5-logger behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a f5-logger version, which can prevent advanced software supply chain attacks. Read how our technology can help prevent future attacks similar to SolarWinds and 3CX.

Did you know...

... that you can use ReversingLabs’ Spectra Assure platform to perform regular risk assessments of packages you develop in-house?

We recommend continuous software safeness monitoring through CI/CD integrations and pre-release/deployment checks. In addition to basic package information found on this page our platform offers rich reports for developers and DevSecOps that help them remediate all reported issues.