The JFrog Security Research team is constantly looking for new and previously unknown vulnerabilities and security issues in popular open-source projects to help improve their security posture and defend the wider software supply chain. As part of this effort, we recently discovered and disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in popular Rust projects such as Axum, Salvo and …
Last August, the maintainers of the LastPass cloud-based password manager tool reported a security breach in their servers. The disclosure maintained that an unauthorized party gained access to the LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account. However – while source code and technical information was stolen, no user data was compromised and no …
The JFrog Security Research team continuously monitors popular open-source software (OSS) repositories with our automated tooling, and reports any vulnerabilities or malicious packages discovered to repository maintainers and the wider community. Most PyPI malware today tries to avoid static detection using various techniques: starting from primitive variable mangling to sophisticated code flattening and steganography techniques. …
The npm CLI has a very convenient and well-known security feature – when installing an npm package, the CLI checks the package and all of its dependencies for well-known vulnerabilities – The check is triggered on package installation (when running npm install) but can also be triggered manually by running npm audit. This is an …
Research motivations Similarly to our previous research on “Secrets Detection,” during the development and testing of JFrog Xray’s new “Contextual Analysis” feature, we wanted to test our detection in a large-scale real-world use case, both for eliminating bugs and testing the real-world viability of our current solution. However, unlike the surprising results we got in our …
In this third post in our series on Malicious Software Packages, we’ll focus on the aftermath of a successful attack and how the attacker executes payloads to serve their needs through various real-life scenarios. Before we start, let’s review a few highlights from the second post you might’ve missed: There are common types of infection methods …
Welcome to the second post in our series on Malicious Software Packages. This post focuses on the infection methods attackers use to spread malicious packages, and how the JFrog Security research team unveiled them. If you missed the first blog, here are some key takeaways: Third-party software packages contain vulnerabilities or malicious code delivered through …
How did we get here? On October 25th, The OpenSSL team announced that OpenSSL 3.0.7 will contain a fix for a critical severity vulnerability that affects OpenSSL 3.x. The full details about the vulnerability were held in an embargo until November 1st. Due to the rarity of an OpenSSL critical-severity issue and the overwhelming popularity …
Welcome to the first post in the malicious software packages series for the DevOps and DevSecOps community. This technical series will focus on various malicious packages and their effects on the software supply chain. We’ll dive deeper into malicious packages in each post, including Defining software supply chain attacks and learning the critical role that malicious …
The JFrog Security team recently competed in the Pwn2Own Miami 2022 hacking competition which focuses on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security. One of our research targets for the competition was the Unified Automation C++-based OPC UA Server SDK. Other than the vulnerabilities we disclosed as part of the pwn2own competition, we managed to find and …
