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More Than 75% of All Vulnerabilities Reside in Indirect Dependencies

posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 03 2020, @10:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the friend-of-a-friend dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

More than 75% of all vulnerabilities reside in indirect dependencies:

The vast majority of security vulnerabilities in open-source projects reside in indirect dependencies rather than directly and first-hand loaded components.

"Aggregating the numbers from all ecosystems, we found more than three times as many vulnerabilities in indirect dependencies than we did direct dependencies," Alyssa Miller, Application Security Advocate at Snyk, told ZDNet in an interview discussing Snyk's State of Open Source Security for 2020 study.

The report looked at how vulnerabilities impacted the JavaScript (npm), Ruby (RubyGems), Java (MavenCentral), PHP (Packagist), and Python (PyPI) ecosystems.

Snyk said that 86% of the JavaScript security bugs, 81% of the Ruby bugs, and 74% of the Java ones impacted libraries that were dependencies of the primary components loaded inside a project.

[...] Snyk argues that companies scanning their primary dependencies for security issues without exploring their full dependency tree multiple levels down would release or end up running products that were vulnerable to unforeseen bugs.

So dear Soylentils, how do you track vulnerabilities in libraries that you use in your projects and do you scan beyond direct dependencies?

Previously:
(2020-05-16) Nine in Ten Biz Applications Harbor Out-of-Date, Unsupported, Insecure Open-Source Code, Study Shows

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  • (Score: 1) by petecox on Friday July 03 2020, @12:39PM (1 child)

    by petecox (3228) on Friday July 03 2020, @12:39PM (#1015724)

    I wonder the same about desktop webapps that bundle their own web runtime.

    But with Android, Chrome OS and Edge OS (*Windows 10) now shipping Chromium with regular security updates handled by the Chrome team, perhaps frameworks such as Electron will evolve to become lighter-weight by calling a FFI to the system runtime instead of bundling their own.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Friday July 03 2020, @01:20PM

    by driverless (4770) on Friday July 03 2020, @01:20PM (#1015741)

    perhaps frameworks such as Electron will evolve to become lighter-weight

    Perhaps pigs will fly.
    Perhaps hell will freeze over.
    Perhaps the Cronulla Sharks will win the NRL premiership.
    Perhaps horses will grow horns.
    Frameworks always acquire more bloat. It's a natural process, like Greek/Italian women, they're created to get bigger as time goes by.