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warningRisk: Hardening

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Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

License: unknown

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

1 modern mitigations missing

Threats

Tampering

No evidence of software tampering

Malware

No evidence of malware inclusion

IMPORTANT: This package had 25 removal incidents in the last 2 years

Latest removal incident detected:

Version: 1.14.0rc1

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

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 PyPI community

33 packages

found in

Top 100

206 packages

found in

Top 1k

1631 packages

found in

Top 10k

63840 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.

SQ14122

Detected Windows executable files that do not implement CFG vulnerability mitigation protection.

Causes risk: modern mitigations missing

hardening

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

25 packages

found in

Top 100

103 packages

found in

Top 1k

449 packages

found in

Top 10k

8279 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.

SQ14125

Detected Windows shared library files that do not suppress exports which reduces CFG vulnerability mitigation protection effectiveness.

Causes risk: low priority mitigations absent

115

hardening

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 PyPI community

26 packages

found in

Top 100

130 packages

found in

Top 1k

732 packages

found in

Top 10k

14459 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.

SQ14127

Detected Windows executable files that do not implement long jump control flow vulnerability mitigation protection.

Causes risk: low priority mitigations absent

115

hardening

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 PyPI community

30 packages

found in

Top 100

141 packages

found in

Top 1k

779 packages

found in

Top 10k

16437 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.

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

Policies

Info

Count

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

33 packages

found in

Top 100

206 packages

found in

Top 1k

1631 packages

found in

Top 10k

63840 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.

SQ14122

Detected Windows executable files that do not implement CFG vulnerability mitigation protection.

Causes risk: modern mitigations missing

hardening

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

25 packages

found in

Top 100

103 packages

found in

Top 1k

449 packages

found in

Top 10k

8279 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.

SQ14125

Detected Windows shared library files that do not suppress exports which reduces CFG vulnerability mitigation protection effectiveness.

Causes risk: low priority mitigations absent

115

hardening

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

26 packages

found in

Top 100

130 packages

found in

Top 1k

732 packages

found in

Top 10k

14459 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.

SQ14127

Detected Windows executable files that do not implement long jump control flow vulnerability mitigation protection.

Causes risk: low priority mitigations absent

115

hardening

Problem

Prevalence in PyPI community

30 packages

found in

Top 100

141 packages

found in

Top 1k

779 packages

found in

Top 10k

16437 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.