Issues - vscode-icons@12.16.0 - Visual Studio Code | ReversingLabs Spectra Assure Community

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

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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. One or more embedded URLs were discovered to link to raw files hosted on GitHub. Attackers often abuse popular web services to host malicious payloads. Since code-sharing services URLs are typically allowed by security solutions, using them for payload delivery increases the odds that the malicious code will reach the user. While the presence of code-sharing service locations does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. An increasing number of software supply chain attacks in the open source space leverages the GitHub service to deliver malicious payloads.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

79 packages

found in

Top 100

622 packages

found in

Top 1k

4233 packages

found in

Top 10k

29.36k 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 an alternative delivery mechanism for software packages.

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.

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TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

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

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TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

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

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