vouch
packj
vouch | packj | |
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10 | 38 | |
17 | 615 | |
- | 3.4% | |
0.0 | 7.2 | |
over 2 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
Rust | Python | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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vouch
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NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages
If you don't know the author, signatures do nothing. Anybody can sign their package with some key. Even if you could check the author's identity, that still does very little for you, unless you know them personally.
It makes a lot more sense to use cryptography to verify that releases are not malicious directly. Tools like crev [1], vouch [2], and cargo-vet [3] allow you to trust your colleagues or specific people to review packages before you install them. That way you don't have to trust their authors or package repositories at all.
That seems like a much more viable path forward than expecting package repositories to audit packages or trying to assign trust onto random developers.
[1]: https://github.com/crev-dev/crev [2]: https://github.com/vouch-dev/vouch [3]: https://github.com/mozilla/cargo-vet
- Dozens of malicious PyPI packages discovered targeting developers
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Vetting the Cargo
Alternatives to cargo-vet that has been mentioned before here on HN:
- https://github.com/crev-dev/crev
- https://github.com/vouch-dev/vouch
Anyone know of any more alternatives or similar tools already available?
- Vouch – A multi-ecosystem package code review system
- Gitsign
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Embedded malware in RC (NPM package)
I've created Vouch in an attempt to address this problem:
https://github.com/vouch-dev/vouch
Vouch lets users create and share reviews for NPM packages. Project dependencies can then be checked against those reviews.
Vouch uses extensions to interface with package ecosystems. It's simple to create a new extension. Extensions currently exist for NPM, PyPi, and Ansible Galaxy.
I'm currently working on a website to index known reviews and publish official reviews.
I hope you guys find it useful! Drop by the Matrix channel if you have any feedback to share: #vouch:matrix.org
- Vouch: A dependency review tool for NPM packages
- BREAKING!! NPM package ‘ua-parser-js’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised
- Vouch: A dependency review tool for PyPI packages
packj
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Rust Without Crates.io
Creator of Packj [1] here. How do you envision sandboxing/security policies will be specified? Per-lib policies when you've hundreds of dependencies will become overwhelming. Having built an eBPF-based sandbox [2], I anticipate that accuracy will be another challenge here: too restrictive will block functionality, too permissive defeats the purpose.
1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj flags malicious/risky NPM/PyPI/RubyGems/Rust/Maven/PHP packages by carrying out static+dynamic+metadata analysis.
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A Study of Malicious Code in PyPI Ecosystem
Cool project. How do you feel about projects like OpenSSF scorecards or even the checks that socket.dev do today on these packages to help determine risk?
https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj/blob/main/.packj.yaml
Secondly, what about impersonation where attackers imitate a popular package and its respective metadata?
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How to use Podman inside of a container
I built Packj [1] sandboxing for securing “pip/NPM install”. It uses strace for sandboxing and blocks access to sensitive files and limits traffic to known-good IP addresses.
1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
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NPM Provenance Public Beta
Great work! This provenance check is going to be very valuable for enforcing supply-chain security. We are working on adding support to check for provenance in Packj.
1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj flags risky/malicious NPM/PyPI/Ruby dependencies
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Show HN: TypeScript Security Scanner
Cool project. Would love to integrate this in Packj [1] as one of the open-source SAST scanners. Will DM you.
1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj flags malicious/risky open-source dependencies.
- Packj flags malicious/risky open-source packages
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Show HN: Coder Guard – Protect Your IDE from Malicious Extensions
Very cool! I've built something similar, but for packages: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj Would love to talk.
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Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?
Working on a marketplace (based on Packj [1]) to allow open-source developers to make money by selling "assured" software artifacts.
1. Packj https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj flags malicious and other "risky" open-source dependencies in your software supply chain.
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Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain December 30th, 2022
I’ve created Packj sandbox [1] for “safe installation” of PyPI/NPM/Rubygems packages
1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
It DOES NOT require a VM/Container; uses strace. It shows you a preview of file system changes that installation will make and can also block arbitrary network communication during installation (uses an allow-list).
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Vulnerability scanner written in Go that uses osv.dev data
Great to see a developer-friendly tool around OSV! Packj [1] uses OSV APIs to report vulnerable PyPI/NPM/Rubygems packages. Disclaimer: I built it.
1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj flags malicious/risky packages.
What are some alternatives?
npm-force-resolutions - Force npm to install a specific transitive dependency version
kubesploit - Kubesploit is a cross-platform post-exploitation HTTP/2 Command & Control server and agent written in Golang, focused on containerized environments.
is-number - JavaScript/Node.js utility. Returns `true` if the value is a number or string number. Useful for checking regex match results, user input, parsed strings, etc.
paperclips - Universal Paperclips mirror
gitsign - Keyless Git signing using Sigstore
meta - Meta discussions and unicorns. Not necessarily in that order.
secimport - eBPF Python runtime sandbox with seccomp (Blocks RCE).
maloss - Towards Measuring Supply Chain Attacks on Package Managers for Interpreted Languages
git-ts - Git TimeStamp Utility
roqr - QR codes that will rock your world
SES-shim - Endo is a distributed secure JavaScript sandbox, based on SES
firejail - Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox