Top issues
Detected presence of licenses that place restrictions on software distribution.
Causes risk: software distribution restrictions
licenses
Problem
Software license is a legal instrument that governs the use and distribution of software source code and its binary representation. Software publishers have the freedom to choose any commonly used or purposefully written license to publish their work under. While some licenses are liberal and allow almost any kind of distribution, with or without code modification, other licenses are more restrictive and impose rules for their inclusion in other software projects. Some software licenses place restrictions on software distribution of the code they apply to. These restrictions may extend to the services built upon the code licensed under such restrictive licenses. Some restrictive licenses explicitly state that the licensee may not provide the software to third parties as a hosted or managed service, where the service provides users with access to any substantial set of the features or functionality of the licensed software. When building commercial applications, this is typically undesirable. Therefore, the inclusion of any code that may impose limits on software distribution is commonly avoided or even prohibited by the organization policy.Prevalence in PyPI community
6 packages
found in
Top 100
50 packages
found in
Top 1k
737 packages
found in
Top 10k
99544 packages
in community
Next steps
Confirm that the software package references a component or a dependency with a restrictive license.
Consider replacing the software component with an alternative that offers a license compatible with organization policy.
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
found in
Top 100
59 packages
found in
Top 1k
404 packages
found in
Top 10k
8958 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 removing all references to flagged network locations.
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. A port number is associated with a network address of a host, such as an IP address, and the type of network protocol used for communication. Within URLs, the ports are optional. Ports can be specified in a URL immediately following the domain name. Each network protocol, or schema, has a set of standard ports on which the service operates. This issue is raised when a mismatch between a network protocol and its expected port number is detected. While the presence of non-standard ports does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved.Prevalence in PyPI community
34 packages
found in
Top 100
261 packages
found in
Top 1k
1650 packages
found in
Top 10k
58747 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 changing the port to one that is standard for the networking protocol.
Problem
Private keys and certificates are considered sensitive information that should not be included in released software packages. However, developers frequently release sensitive information alongside their applications to facilitate automated software testing. Testing keys and certificates often proliferate through the software supply chain. When such information gets shared publicly, it is catalogued by file reputation databases. Any private key and certificate files seen by a file reputation database prior to configured time threshold can be automatically suppressed. Commonly shared sensitive information is not considered to be secret.Prevalence in PyPI community
38 packages
found in
Top 100
164 packages
found in
Top 1k
747 packages
found in
Top 10k
16783 packages
in community
Next steps
Review the commonly shared sensitive information for evidence of inadvertently exposed secrets.
If the keys were published unintentionally and the software has been made public, you should revoke the keys and file a security incident.
Problem
Service access tokens are considered sensitive information that should not be included in released software packages. However, developers frequently release sensitive information alongside their applications to facilitate automated software testing. Testing tokens and keys often proliferate through the software supply chain. Any publicly documented testing keys or service access tokens can safely be ignored. List of such commonly distributed sensitive information is automatically updated and requires no additional user actions.Prevalence in PyPI community
3 packages
found in
Top 100
4 packages
found in
Top 1k
38 packages
found in
Top 10k
479 packages
in community
Next steps
Review the commonly shared sensitive information for evidence of inadvertently exposed secrets.
If the tokens were published unintentionally and the software has been made public, you should revoke the tokens and file a security incident.
Top behaviors
Decodes data using the Base64 algorithm.
packer
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
40 packages
found in
Top 100
253 packages
found in
Top 1k
1433 packages
found in
Top 10k
53416 packages
in community
Contains URLs that link to interesting file formats.
network
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
75 packages
found in
Top 100
451 packages
found in
Top 1k
3488 packages
found in
Top 10k
109392 packages
in community
Creates a process.
execution
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
68 packages
found in
Top 100
508 packages
found in
Top 1k
3570 packages
found in
Top 10k
165477 packages
in community
Contains URLs with suspicious path components.
network
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
12 packages
found in
Top 100
72 packages
found in
Top 1k
473 packages
found in
Top 10k
10526 packages
in community
Contains URLs that use non-standard ports.
network
Prevalence in PyPI community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
34 packages
found in
Top 100
266 packages
found in
Top 1k
1676 packages
found in
Top 10k
59402 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
No vulnerabilities found.