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
Might manipulate cookies.
document
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
1 packages
found in
Top 100
4 packages
found in
Top 1k
141 packages
found in
Top 10k
1444 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
Might create additional elements programmatically.
document
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
12 packages
found in
Top 100
66 packages
found in
Top 1k
753 packages
found in
Top 10k
9321 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
3584 packages
found in
Top 10k
53830 packages
in community
Pauses execution until a thread is terminated.
execution
Prevalence in RubyGems community
Behavior often found in this community (Common)
45 packages
found in
Top 100
182 packages
found in
Top 1k
1293 packages
found in
Top 10k
11808 packages
in community
Top vulnerabilities
No vulnerabilities found.