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Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) language support for VS Code Speech

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Top 10k
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) language support for speech-to-text and other voice capabilities in VS Code.
License: unknown
Published: about 1 year ago

Publisher: ms-vscode



SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses
No license compliance issues
Secrets
No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities
No known vulnerabilities detected
Hardening
No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering
No evidence of software tampering
Malware
No evidence of malware inclusion

Popularity

8.57k
Total Installs
Contributor
Declared Dependencies
0
Dependents

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. 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 being the first to try out a new project 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 Visual Studio Code community

25 packages
found in
Top 100
151 packages
found in
Top 1k
793 packages
found in
Top 10k
3.71k 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.

Problem

Software components contain executable code that performs actions implemented during its development. These actions are called behaviors. In the analysis report, behaviors are presented as human-readable descriptions that best match the underlying code intent. While most behaviors are benign, some are commonly abused by malicious software with the intent to cause harm. When a software package shares behavior traits with malicious software, it may become flagged by security solutions. Any detection from security solutions can cause friction for the end-users during software deployment. While the behavior is likely intended by the developer, there is a small chance this detection is true positive, and an early indication of a software supply chain attack.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

60 packages
found in
Top 100
434 packages
found in
Top 1k
2301 packages
found in
Top 10k
13.88k packages
in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.
If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, 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 rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Obfuscation is a process of mangling the software code legibility. Obfuscation can be applied to both the application source and its compiled code counterpart. In both cases, obfuscation can interfere with the accuracy of security and software quality assessment solutions. For this reason, obfuscation is a technique commonly used by malicious actors as a means of bypassing security solutions and avoiding detection. While presence of obfuscation does not imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. One example of acceptable use for code obfuscation is minimizing the size of script files that are not intended to be read by humans. In such a case, the trade-off between file size and code legibility is considered acceptable.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

8 packages
found in
Top 100
40 packages
found in
Top 1k
96 packages
found in
Top 10k
506 packages
in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.
Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1027 - Obfuscated Files or Information.
Consider an alternative to code obfuscation to lower the risk of being mistakenly flagged by security solutions.

Top behaviors

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Behavior commonly used by malicious software (Important)
Behavior uncommon for this community (Uncommon)
4 packages
found in
Top 100
17 packages
found in
Top 1k
32 packages
found in
Top 10k
131 packages
in community

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
88 packages
found in
Top 100
718 packages
found in
Top 1k
4377 packages
found in
Top 10k
28.84k packages
in community

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
79 packages
found in
Top 100
598 packages
found in
Top 1k
3183 packages
found in
Top 10k
21.51k packages
in community

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
18 packages
found in
Top 100
59 packages
found in
Top 1k
169 packages
found in
Top 10k
565 packages
in community

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)
64 packages
found in
Top 100
463 packages
found in
Top 1k
2061 packages
found in
Top 10k
10.14k packages
in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.