Collaborate Disseminate
By Habiba Rashid
In the interconnected world of web development, open-source components play a vital role, facilitating collaboration and code sharing…
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I am specifically looking at the npm package metadata like from the lodash package, the relevant part which is this:
{
"shasum": "392617f69a947e40cec7848d85fcc3dd29d74bc5",
"tarball": "https://registr… Continue reading How is the npm package manager made robust security-wise, what are the keys they are using, and how do they use them?
I was trying to install OWASP juice shop with nodejs and npm by following a YouTube channel.
After installing, nodejs, npm, and git clone of juice shop; I wrote npm install in terminal on the juice-shop directory and this error showed:
htt… Continue reading How I can fix this error? [migrated]
I maintain several Angular apps, which contain thousands of dependencies on NPM packages. GitHub’s Dependabot notifies me of new known vulnerabilities every week (from the CVE database).
For example, Dependabot tells me that moment.js has … Continue reading Is there a database that classifies NPM library vulnerabilities as exploitable vs. benign in the browser?
Free spins? Bonus game points? Cheap social media followers? What harm could it possibly do if you just take a tiny little look?! Continue reading NPM JavaScript packages abused to create scambait links in bulk
By Deeba Ahmed
Aabquerys use the typosquatting technique to encourage downloading malicious components, as it has been cleverly named to make it sound like the legitimate NPM module Abquery.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Typ… Continue reading Typosquatting: Legit Abquery Package Duped with Malicious Aabquerys
Security researchers are warning of a new wave of malicious NPM and PyPI packages designed to steal user information and download additional payloads.
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Continue reading Malicious NPM, PyPI Packages Stealing User Information
By Waqas
The launch of the Malicious Packages repository comes at a time when cyberattacks, leveraging malicious open source packages, are on the rise.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OpenSSF Launches Malicious Packages Reposit… Continue reading OpenSSF Launches Malicious Packages Repository
I have a Node.js app which has a lot of npm-dependencies, running on Linux (Centos) machine.
When Node starts, the script has access to the files outside its directory (as least by default), so malicious npm-package could traverse a direct… Continue reading Restrict node.js filesystem access
First up is some clever wizardry from the [Aqua Nautilus] research team, who discovered a timing attack that leaks information about private npm packages. The setup is this, npm hosts …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: npm Timing Leak, Siemens Universal Key, and PHP in PNG