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npm v12’s Biggest Security Change: From Implicit to Explicit Trust

For years, installing an npm package has meant trusting that every package in the dependency tree will behave as expected. Whether code originated from the npm registry, a Git repository, a remote URL, or an installation script buried deep within a transitive dependency, npm would typically execute or retrieve it automatically during the installation process. …

The Governance Gap: What IDC’s 2026 Data Reveals About AI and the Software Supply Chain

In a landscape where executive teams demand immediate AI integration, engineering and security leaders find themselves navigating a complex operational balancing act. To explore how organizations can accelerate delivery pipelines without introducing fatal security risks, JFrog recently hosted a virtual panel discussion titled “Agentic Software Delivery in 2026: How to Bridge the Gap Between AI …

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How JFrog’s AI-Research Bot Found OSS CI/CD Vulnerabilities to Prevent Shai Hulud 3.0

Recent incidents have proven that Continuous Integration (CI) workflows are the new battleground for software supply chain attacks. Security Pitfalls in GitHub Actions workflows, such as the unsanitized use of pull request (PR) data, can allow attackers to execute malicious code during CI runs with devastating consequences. For example, the high-profile “S1ngularity” attack on the …

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Vulnerability or Not a Vulnerability?

Disputed CVEs: It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Debate Every CVE starts as a vulnerability claim, but not every claim ends in agreement. Between researchers racing to disclose vulnerabilities, and open-source maintainers guarding the stability and reputation of their projects, a gray zone appears where “vulnerability” becomes a matter of debate. This is the story …

Beware of Open Claw

Giving OpenClaw The Keys to Your Kingdom? Read This First

In security, we never assume perfection. We assume zero-trust, and we design controls to limit the blast radius. That mindset is missing from many OpenClaw deployments today. It is almost impossible not to hear about the new personal AI assistant, OpenClaw (formerly known as ClawdBot and MoltBot). Since its release in November 2025, it has …

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Breaking AppSec Myths – Obfuscated Packages

As part of the JFrog Security Research team’s ongoing work, we continuously monitor newly published packages across multiple ecosystems for malicious activity. This effort serves the broader open source community through public research disclosures, and it directly impacts the detection capabilities behind JFrog Xray and JFrog Curation. Our scanning pipeline uses a broad set of …

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Dissecting and Exploiting CVE-2025-62507: Remote Code Execution in Redis

A recent stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Redis, assigned CVE-2025-62507, was fixed in version 8.3.2. The issue was published with a high severity rating and assigned a CVSS v3 score of 8.8. According to the official advisory, “a user can run the XACKDEL command with multiple IDs and trigger a stack buffer overflow, which may …

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CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478 (“React2Shell”): All you need to know – UPDATED

IMPORTANT UPDATE:  React2Shell Continues to Attack Cloud Infrastructure  (Dec 9th, 2025) JFrog Security Research continues to track the React2Shell vulnerability. Recent developments include the original POC from the researcher who found this vulnerability. This POC shows the simplicity of exploiting this CVE and reflects the real severity and impact of this CVE. (Dec 12th, 2025) …

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PyTorch Users at Risk: Unveiling 3 Zero-Day PickleScan Vulnerabilities

AI Model Scanning as the First Layer of Security JFrog Security Research found 3 zero-day critical vulnerabilities in PickleScan, which would allow attackers to bypass the most popular Pickle model scanning tool. PickleScan is a widely used, industry-standard tool for scanning ML models and ensuring they contain no malicious content. Each discovered vulnerability enables attackers …

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Shai-Hulud npm supply chain attack – new compromised packages detected

IMPORTANT UPDATE:  Shai-Hulud Returns  (Nov 24, 2025) JFrog continues to track, provide research and document another wave of the Shai-Hulud Software Supply Chain Attack which was originally reported by the JFrog Security Research team on 16-Sep-2025. Following the initial campaign, threat actors have returned with more advanced tactics, compromising an additional 796 new malicious packages …