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Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
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Why would pinning the exact version in this case not have solved the problem? I agree `--ignore-scripts` would be a sensible default at this point, but my understanding is that this vulnerability exclusively impacts two newly released versions.
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#43This may not be popular, but is there a place for required human actions or just timed actions to slow down things like this? For instance, maybe a GH action to deploy requires a final human click and to change that to cli has a 3 day cooling period with mandatory security emails sent out. Similarly, you switch to read only for 6 hrs after an email change. There are holes in these ideas but the basic concept is to tr…
A much better approach would be to pin the versions used and do intentional updates some time after release, say a sprint after.
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#44I can't even imagine the scale of the impact with Axios being compromised, nearly every other project uses it for some reason instead of fetch (I never understood why). Also from the report: > Neither malicious version contains a single line of malicious code inside axios itself. Instead, both inject a fake dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, a package that is never imported anywhere in the axios source, whose only pu…
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#46It won't stop all attacks but definitely would stop some of these
Re: Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
#47This may not be popular, but is there a place for required human actions or just timed actions to slow down things like this? For instance, maybe a GH action to deploy requires a final human click and to change that to cli has a 3 day cooling period with mandatory security emails sent out. Similarly, you switch to read only for 6 hrs after an email change. There are holes in these ideas but the basic concept is to tr…
Hi, security here. We've tried, but the amount of people you need for this vs the amount of people you have trying to review and click the big button always means that this step will be a bottleneck. Thus this step will be eliminated. A much better approach would be to pin the versions used and do intentional updates some time after release, say a sprint after.
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#48Pin your dependencies folks! Audit and don't upgrade to every brand new version.
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#49Has anyone tested general purpose malware detection on supply chains ? Like clamscan . I tried to test the LiteLLM hack but the affected packages had been pulled. Windows Defender AV has an inference based detector that may work when signatures have not yet been published
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#50It’s things like this that make me want to swap to Qubes permanently, simply as to not have my password manager in the same context as compiling software ever.