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 RubyGems 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
Tampers with system environment variables.
settings
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
9 packages
found in
Top 100
46 packages
found in
Top 1k
292 packages
found in
Top 10k
2676 packages
in community
Contains URLs that link to interesting file formats.
network
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
Creates a process.
execution
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
41 packages
found in
Top 100
130 packages
found in
Top 1k
833 packages
found in
Top 10k
8732 packages
in community
Enumerates environment variables.
search
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
72 packages
found in
Top 100
483 packages
found in
Top 1k
3269 packages
found in
Top 10k
37528 packages
in community
Contains URLs related to URL shortener services.
network
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
13 packages
found in
Top 100
65 packages
found in
Top 1k
505 packages
found in
Top 10k
4518 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
No vulnerabilities found.