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(2020-05-16) Nine in Ten Biz Applications Harbor Out-of-Date, Unsupported, Insecure Open-Source Code, Study Shows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 fyngyrz on Saturday July 04 2020, @12:35PM (1 child)
...after selling your personal information to advertisers, and exposing it to black hats.
In the meantime, every time the Internet connection is lost, it refuses to wash your dishes.
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Every glass of beer is a tragic story of grains
that could have become pizza crust, but didn't.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday July 04 2020, @02:16PM
Actually they already had all of that and knew you were going to buy that dishwasher because it's all part of a mind-control system that has encompassed everything and you wouldn't have been able to not buy that dishwasher.