Top issues
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. Open source communities depend on the work of thousands of software developers that volunteer their time to maintain software components. Software developers build up the reputation of their open source projects by developing in public. Modern source code repositories have many social features that allow software developers to handle bug reports, have discussions with their users, and convey reaching significant project milestones. It is uncommon to find open source projects that omit linking their component to a publicly accessible source code repository.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
Decodes data using the Base64 algorithm.
packer
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
15 packages
found in
Top 100
74 packages
found in
Top 1k
454 packages
found in
Top 10k
3816 packages
in community
Might enumerate files on file system.
steal
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
0 packages
found in
Top 100
1 packages
found in
Top 1k
18 packages
found in
Top 10k
200 packages
in community
The software package does not declare any source code repository.
anomaly
Prevalence in RubyGems community
No behavior prevalence information at this timeMight decode or encode data using Base64.
packer
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
0 packages
found in
Top 100
3 packages
found in
Top 1k
70 packages
found in
Top 10k
538 packages
in community
Converts binary data to its string representation, commonly used in obfuscation.
packer
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
7 packages
found in
Top 100
57 packages
found in
Top 1k
708 packages
found in
Top 10k
8226 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
No vulnerabilities found.