packj

Packj stops :zap: Solarwinds-, ESLint-, and PyTorch-like attacks by flagging malicious/vulnerable open-source dependencies ("weak links") in your software supply-chain (by ossillate-inc)

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packj reviews and mentions

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  • Rust Without Crates.io
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023
    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.

  • A Study of Malicious Code in PyPI Ecosystem
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023
    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?

  • How to use Podman inside of a container
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2023
    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

  • NPM Provenance Public Beta
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2023
    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

  • Show HN: TypeScript Security Scanner
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2023
    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
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2023
  • Show HN: Coder Guard – Protect Your IDE from Malicious Extensions
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2023
    Very cool! I've built something similar, but for packages: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj Would love to talk.
  • Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2023
    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.

  • Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain December 30th, 2022
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 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).

  • Vulnerability scanner written in Go that uses osv.dev data
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2022
    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.

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ossillate-inc/packj is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of packj is Python.


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