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> These PRs were accompanied by a security alert with a nonsensical, made up CVSS v4 score and by a worrying 73% compatibility score, allegedly based on the breakage the update is causing in the ecosystem.
Where did the CVSS score come from exactly? Does dependabot generate CVEs automatically?
The number of ReDoS vulnerabilities we see in Dependabot alerts for NPM packages we’re only using in client code is absurd. I’d love a fix for this that was aware of whether the package is running on our backend or not. Client side ReDoS is not relevant to us at all.
TBH I Think that DoS needs to stop being considered a vulnerability. It's an availability concern, and availability, despite being a part of CIA, is really more of a principle for security rather than the domain of security. In practice, availability is far better categorized as an operational or engineering concern than a security concern and it does far, far more harm to categorize DoS as a security conern than it…
is there a `govulncheck`-like tool for the JVM ecosystem? I heard Gradle has something like that in its ecosystem. search revealed Sonatype Scan Gradle plugin. how is it?
The number of ReDoS vulnerabilities we see in Dependabot alerts for NPM packages we’re only using in client code is absurd. I’d love a fix for this that was aware of whether the package is running on our backend or not. Client side ReDoS is not relevant to us at all.
That and it can't understand that a tool that runs as the user on their laptop really doesn't need to sanitise the inputs when it's generating a command. If the user wanted to execute the command they could without having to obfuscate it sufficient to get through the tool. Nope, gotta waste everyone's time running sanitisation methods. Or just ignore the stupid code review tool.
We’ve built a modern dependabot (or works with it) agent: fossabot analyzes your app code to know how you use your dependencies then delivers a custom safe/needs review verdict per upgrade or packages groups of safe upgrades together to make more strategic jumps. We can also fix breaking changes because the agents context is so complete. https://fossa.com/products/fossabot/ We have some of the best JS/TS analysis out…
Are y'all aware your agent's name clashes with an established and rather popular streaming bot/tool, https://fossabot.com ?
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TBH I Think that DoS needs to stop being considered a vulnerability. It's an availability concern, and availability, despite being a part of CIA, is really more of a principle for security rather than the domain of security. In practice, availability is far better categorized as an operational or engineering concern than a security concern and it does far, far more harm to categorize DoS as a security conern than it…
Maybe we should start issuing CVEs for all bugs that might negatively impact the security of a system.
At this point your steps are so simple id skip GitHub actions security tyre fire altogether. Just run the go commands whilst listening on GitHub webhooks and updating checks with the GitHub checks API. GitHub actions is the biggest security risk in this whole setup. Honestly not that complicated.
Absolutely wild.
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The real problem is that we treat vulnerabilities as binary without nuance. Whether a security vulnerability is an issue depends on context. This comes up a lot for DoS (and especially ReDoS) as it is comparatively rare for it to be real, but it can happen for any vulnerability type.
I don't really agree. Maybe I do, but I probably have mixed feelings about that at least. DoS is distinct because it's only considered a "security" issue due to arbitrary conversations that happened decades ago. There's simply not a good justification today for it. If you care about DoS, you care about almost every bug, and this is something for your team to consider for availability. That is distinct from, say, remo…
But at the same time i don't know. Pre-cloudflare bringing cheap ddos mitigation to the masses, i suspect most website operators would have preferred to be subject to an xss attack over a DoS. At least xss has a viable fix path (of course volumetric dos is a different beast than cve type dos vulns)