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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(2020-05-16) Nine in Ten Biz Applications Harbor Out-of-Date, Unsupported, Insecure Open-Source Code, Study Shows
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Friday July 03 2020, @12:53PM (1 child)
Testing things like that is a literally endless task, because the libraries will be updated, at a schedule that you don't control.
If you don't take the updates, you risk unpatched vulnerabilities. If you do take the updates, you will be constantly testing and re-testing. As new features are adding into the libraries, you might need to review and update your test cases as well - so even automatic testing won't entirely save you.
Much as I love writing software, I am continually reminded of the quote: "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @01:55AM
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
Or the wrong kind of virus.