Top issues
Detected presence of software components distributed with copyleft licenses.
Causes risk: copyleft licensed components
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. Copyleft licenses in particular impose substantial restrictions on the licensee. They typically require that any derived works, and even software code that merely interacts with copyleft code, be licensed under the same license. Since copyleft licenses are commonly applied to open source code, their inclusion requires that the entire software package becomes open sourced. For commercial applications, this is typically undesirable. Therefore, the inclusion of copyleft code is commonly avoided or even prohibited by the organization policy.Prevalence in RubyGems community
7 packages
found in
Top 100
38 packages
found in
Top 1k
291 packages
found in
Top 10k
6.89k packages
in community
Next steps
Confirm that the software package includes a copyleft component.
Investigate if the software publisher provides this component under a non-copyleft license.
Consider replacing the software component with an alternative that offers a license compatible with commercial use.
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 RubyGems community
9 packages
found in
Top 100
47 packages
found in
Top 1k
402 packages
found in
Top 10k
8.2k 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.
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
1 packages
found in
Top 100
98 packages
found in
Top 1k
3817 packages
found in
Top 10k
185.27k packages
in community
Next 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
Opens a URL.
network
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
21 packages
found in
Top 100
63 packages
found in
Top 1k
588 packages
found in
Top 10k
13.02k packages
in community
Copies a file.
file
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
17 packages
found in
Top 100
62 packages
found in
Top 1k
530 packages
found in
Top 10k
6.71k packages
in community
Reads from files.
file
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
79 packages
found in
Top 100
433 packages
found in
Top 1k
4385 packages
found in
Top 10k
81.6k packages
in community
Checks if a file or a directory exists.
file
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
71 packages
found in
Top 100
371 packages
found in
Top 1k
3553 packages
found in
Top 10k
66.39k packages
in community
Creates/Opens a file.
file
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
69 packages
found in
Top 100
362 packages
found in
Top 1k
3167 packages
found in
Top 10k
64.67k packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
No vulnerabilities found.