Top issues
Detected presence of software components that are rarely included by other public software packages.
hunting
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
No prevalence information at this timeNext 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
Writes to files.
file
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
63 packages
found in
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578 packages
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4140 packages
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224170 packages
in community
Imports the "sys" module, which provides access to system-specific parameters and functions.
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
100 packages
found in
Top 100
843 packages
found in
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7075 packages
found in
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339347 packages
in community
Imports the "os" module, which contains miscellaneous operating system interfaces.
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
97 packages
found in
Top 100
816 packages
found in
Top 1k
6970 packages
found in
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463877 packages
in community
Imports the "json" module, which implements functions for manipulating JSON files.
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
58 packages
found in
Top 100
516 packages
found in
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4246 packages
found in
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244061 packages
in community
Imports the "datetime" module, which exposes classes for manipulating dates and times.
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
66 packages
found in
Top 100
494 packages
found in
Top 1k
4124 packages
found in
Top 10k
201631 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
No vulnerabilities found.