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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(2020-05-16) Nine in Ten Biz Applications Harbor Out-of-Date, Unsupported, Insecure Open-Source Code, Study Shows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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2020, @07:23PM (2 children)
Oh bullshit. When counting mobile devices, their market share is down around 30% and that's not enough to command monopoly rents. They've lost the server market, like they lost the phone market, if Netcraft is any indicator. It shows around 4.5% and declining. They're betting what's left of their farm on Azure, but Azure continues to lose money [medium.com] and pretty soon the FTC will have to step in and address the shell game going on.
Azure has to market Free and Open Source software, but it has only become part of their marketing because it is the only way they can even attempt to bring Azure into relevancy. While that is going on, they've increased their attacks against Copyleft via Snyk, Blackduck, and other proxies. Their use of proxies for software patent attacks has only increased. The whole indemnification scam they have for Azure is about baiting patent trolls (NPEs) to buy patents from them in exchange for a contract prohibiting going after the one or two Azure customers out there. Don't underestimate the harm and cost caused by the use of software patents.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2020, @11:11PM
Netcraft confirms. Azure is dying.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @02:05AM
The link claims MS is losing money on the cloud because they bet on Moore's Law continuing. But if it slows, it also slows for the competition.