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activemerchant

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Framework and tools for dealing with credit card transactions.
License: Permissive (MIT)
Published: over 1 year ago
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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses
No license compliance issues
Secrets
No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities
11 severe vulnerabilities exploited
Hardening
No application hardening issues

Threats

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

Popularity

22.28M
Total Downloads
1
Contributor
5
Declared Dependencies
155
Dependents

Top issues

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Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known severe vulnerabilities. Available threat intelligence telemetry has confirmed that the reported high or critical severity vulnerabilities are actively being exploited by malicious actors.

Prevalence in RubyGems community

30 packages
found in
Top 100
220 packages
found in
Top 1k
2785 packages
found in
Top 10k
42173 packages
in community

Next steps

We strongly advise updating the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Available threat intelligence telemetry has confirmed that the reported vulnerabilities are actively being exploited by malicious actors. Malware code that propagates through these vulnerabilities has been created. This increases the chance of automated malware attacks affecting the software component users.

Prevalence in RubyGems community

15 packages
found in
Top 100
109 packages
found in
Top 1k
1394 packages
found in
Top 10k
20876 packages
in community

Next steps

We strongly advise updating the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as critical severity.

Prevalence in RubyGems community

29 packages
found in
Top 100
184 packages
found in
Top 1k
2444 packages
found in
Top 10k
35772 packages
in community

Next steps

Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.
We strongly advise updating the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as high severity.

Prevalence in RubyGems community

44 packages
found in
Top 100
282 packages
found in
Top 1k
3574 packages
found in
Top 10k
54198 packages
in community

Next steps

Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.
Update the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as medium severity.

Prevalence in RubyGems community

37 packages
found in
Top 100
241 packages
found in
Top 1k
3097 packages
found in
Top 10k
47522 packages
in community

Next steps

Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.
Update the component to the latest version.
If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Top behaviors

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Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
4 packages
found in
Top 100
10 packages
found in
Top 1k
49 packages
found in
Top 10k
419 packages
in community

Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
8 packages
found in
Top 100
16 packages
found in
Top 1k
136 packages
found in
Top 10k
1042 packages
in community

Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
15 packages
found in
Top 100
98 packages
found in
Top 1k
644 packages
found in
Top 10k
5994 packages
in community

Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
53 packages
found in
Top 100
247 packages
found in
Top 1k
2209 packages
found in
Top 10k
16324 packages
in community

Prevalence in RubyGems community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
1 packages
found in
Top 100
14 packages
found in
Top 1k
165 packages
found in
Top 10k
1293 packages
in community

Top vulnerabilities

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Vulnerability Exploitation Lifecycle
(46 Active Vulnerabilities)
29 (29 Fixable)
CVE-2016-4658c
CVE-2019-11068c
CVE-2019-5477c
17 (17 Fixable)
CVE-2020-8165c
CVE-2017-15412h
CVE-2021-3517h
2 (2 Fixable)
CVE-2022-40304h
CVE-2022-40303h
None
Exploits Unknown
Exploits Exist
Exploited by Malware
Patching Mandated

FAQ for activemerchant

What is activemerchant?

Framework and tools for dealing with credit card transactions. For more information about this package, visit its homepage.

Is activemerchant malicious or is it safe to use?

The Ruby package activemerchant was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. The package contains risks, and the analysis results should be reviewed before it is downloaded and used. Visit the Issues and Behaviors sections of the analysis for more details.

Is activemerchant popular?

The Ruby package activemerchant ranks among the top 10000 projects in this community. It has 22M recorded downloads. 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 activemerchant once it is in my app?

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

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