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List of software quality issues with the number of affected components.

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Problem

Various network communication protocols allow including plaintext authentication credentials. Information such as user names and passwords could be passed through a non-encrypted channel, and therefore intercepted by malicious actors. Credentials are considered secrets, and should be kept encrypted until they are used. This policy control matches the following URI pattern protocol://username:password@domain within any software package component.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

14 packages

found in

Top 100

112 packages

found in

Top 1k

273 packages

found in

Top 10k

1.71k packages

in community

Next steps

Review the reported matches. If the warning refers to a placeholder credential value, it can be safely ignored.

Problem

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. A port number is associated with a network address of a host, such as an IP address, and the type of network protocol used for communication. Within URLs, the ports are optional. Ports can be specified in a URL immediately following the domain name. Each network protocol, or schema, has a set of standard ports on which the service operates. This issue is raised when a mismatch between a network protocol and its expected port number is detected. While the presence of non-standard ports does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

79 packages

found in

Top 100

560 packages

found in

Top 1k

2912 packages

found in

Top 10k

17.75k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider changing the port to one that is standard for the networking protocol.

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Azure Load Testing

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IMPORTANT: This package had 1 removal incident in versions published within 2 years prior to the latestLatest version with removal incident detected: 12 months agoVersion: 1.0.1

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SQ34302Detected presence of plaintext credentials within network protocol strings.Causes risk: web service credentials foundsecrets

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TH17115Detected presence of files containing URLs that use non-standard ports.hunting

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SQ34302Detected presence of plaintext credentials within network protocol strings.Causes risk: web service credentials foundsecrets

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Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

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TH17115Detected presence of files containing URLs that use non-standard ports.hunting

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