node-ffi-napi
ua-parser-js
node-ffi-napi | ua-parser-js | |
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3 | 29 | |
949 | 8,614 | |
0.6% | - | |
0.0 | 8.4 | |
about 1 month ago | about 2 months ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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node-ffi-napi
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The unexpected return of JavaScript for Automation
I actually came from AutoHotKey as well, specifically for the cross platform support!
I've found the dev experience with nut.js to be worlds ahead of AutoHotKey as well. You get to use a real programming language with proper modules, data structures, first-class functions, asynchrony, and have access to a vast ecosystem of third party libraries and tooling.
Some Windows specific APIs are easier to work with on AHK due to the collection of built-in functions specifically tailored for automation, but everything AHK is still possible with nut.js since you're just writing a node.js script and have access to libraries like https://github.com/node-ffi-napi/node-ffi-napi that can call native system libraries, with a bit more work involved.
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NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised
> check out the Web X-Ray repo <https://github.com/mozilla/goggles.mozilla.org/>.
Thanks for example. Peeking a bit under the hood, it appears to be due to transitive dependencies referencing github urls (and transient ones at that) instead of semver, which admittedly is neither standard nor good practice...
FWIW, simply removing `"grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.4.3",` from package.json and related jshint-related code from Gruntfile was sufficient to get `npm install` to complete successfully. The debugging just took me a few minutes grepping package-lock.json for the 404 URL in question (https://github.com/ariya/esprima/tarball/master) and tracing that back to a top-level dependency via recursively grepping for dependent packages. I imagine that upgrading relevant dependencies might also do the trick, seeing as jshint no longer depends on esprima[0].
I'm not sure how representative this particular case is to the sort of issues you run into, but I'll tell that reproducibility issues can get a lot worse in ways that committing deps doesn't help (for example, issues like this one[1] are nasty to narrow down).
But assuming that installation in your link just happens to have a simple fix and that others are not as forgiving, how is committing node_modules supposed to help here if you're saying you can't even get it to a working state in the first place? DO you own the repo in order to be able to make the change? Or are you mostly just saying that hindsight is 20-20?
[0] https://github.com/jshint/jshint/blob/master/package.json#L4...
[1] https://github.com/node-ffi-napi/node-ffi-napi/issues/143
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how can c++ code be made available in JavaScript?
NodeJS also has an FFI, where you can build a shared library (not limited to c++) and import it. Node-ffi-addon
ua-parser-js
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Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly
Just look at all the big companies doing it
https://faisalman.github.io/ua-parser-js/
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Liguard - The Linode Guard
This project is backed under MIT License, special shout out to project UA-Parser, as liguard uses a piece of its source-code.
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Modern PHP
With NPM, what's actually published is not what's in the git repo, so it's harder to inspect/review vulnerabilities or hijacking. With composer, what's in git _is_ what composer pulls (with the exception of rules in .gitattributes to exclude files etc), making it much easier to trace. One such example: https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536
Composer packages are vendor namespaced, so hijacking an abandoned package is not possible (and it is with NPM), some examples like https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/github_npm_package/
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Some developers are fouling up open-source software
Sure, I suppose in theory it could happen with other ecosystems, but for some reason it doesn't. It sure seems to just keep happening in NPM though.
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Vulnerable and Outdated Components
From the other side, npm package may be hijacked(as it happened recently for ua-parser-js and to other packages earlier). To mitigate that, I don't know, probably, subscribing to some security digest would be the most helpful.
- Red Hat response to Java release cadence change
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Secure software supply chain: why every link matters
On Oct. 22, 2021, developers of a very common NPM package, ua-parser-js, discovered that some attackers uploaded a compromised version of the package containing malware for Linux and Windows, and were capable of stealing data (at least passwords and cookies from the browser).
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Thoughts on improving security of Neovim plugins
Since Neovim 0.5 release (which has full Lua support) I see more and more amazing Lua plugins being developed, and I think this trend will likely to continue. But I recently got more concerned about security risks associated with the way Neovim plugins being installed and used (especially after seeing recent compromises like ua-parser-js or coa). Installing typical Neovim plugin is basically downloading and executing random code from the internet on your machine with your user privileges, so hijacked or deliberately malicious plugin could potentially do a lot of damage (like stealing keys/passwords, installing keylogger or just rm -rf / for fun).
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Hidden XMRig miner malware discovered in hijacked versions of popular ua-parser-js npm library
thread about compromise https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536
- Malware Discovered in Popular NPM Package, ua-parser-js
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