GitHub Bug Allowed Third-Party Apps to Gain Elevated Permissions

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GitHub Bug Allowed Third-Party Apps to Gain Elevated Permissions

We learned about a bug in GitHub that for about five days at the end of February allowed third-party applications connected to GitHub to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. For example, if you connected the Codecov app to your GitHub account with read-only access to your repositories, during that window the app …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Gartner Report for SBOMs: Key Takeaways You Should Know

In its recent Innovation Insight for SBOMs report,* Gartner highlights the benefits of using software bills of materials (SBOMs) to secure modern, fast-paced DevOps pipelines. SBOMs shed light on blind spots in the software supply chain by enumerating all proprietary and open source components and enable the effective mitigation of risks. Without this visibility, organizations’ …

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Package Planting: Are You [Unknowingly] Maintaining Poisoned Packages?

Aqua’s Team Nautilus found a logical flaw in npm that allows threat actors to masquerade a malicious package as legitimate and trick unsuspecting developers into installing it. Up until recently, npm allowed adding anyone as a maintainer of the package without notifying these users or getting their consent. Since you could assign poisoned packages under …

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Software Supply Chain Security with Trivy: Generating SBOMs

Trivy is an easy-to-use, comprehensive open source scanner that helps developers gain visibility into the software components used in their applications. With the growing awareness about supply chain security, software bills of materials (SBOMs) have become the standard for creating software inventory lists. To simplify this process, Trivy recently added support for generating SBOMs as …

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Real-world Cyber Attacks Targeting Data Science Tools

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With the accelerated move to the cloud, organizations increasingly rely on large data teams to make data-driven business decisions. In their job, data professionals are given high privileges and access to development and production environments. But what are the security threats that target data tools? And, more importantly, are organizations prepared to deal with these …

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New npm Flaws Let Attackers Better Target Packages for Account Takeover

For the past few years, cybercriminals have been hijacking popular npm packages by taking over maintainers’ accounts. As part of our research at Team Nautilus, we discovered two flaws in the npm platform related to two-factor authentication (2FA). An attacker can use these flaws to target npm packages for account takeover attacks. We reported these …

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Software Supply Chain Attacks: 2021 in Review

As CI/CD pipelines have become an increasingly popular attack vector, 2021 saw a huge rise in software supply chain attacks. With their number more than tripling in the past year, securing the software delivery process is one of the most urgent needs. In our latest study, we examine the top supply chain security threats that …

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CVE-2021-44832: New Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Log4j

This holiday season, adversaries aren’t taking a vacation, massively exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Log4j, a highly popular Java logging library. Amid the ongoing efforts of organizations to patch their vulnerable systems, a new Log4j vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44832, has been discovered. It allows for an arbitrary code execution via JDBC Appender when an attacker can …

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JDWP Misconfiguration in Container Images and K8s

Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) is a great way to remotely debug applications during development. However, if enabled when shipped to production, hackers can exploit this mistake by running an arbitrary code that allows initial access or privilege escalation in your production environment. Using Aqua’s Dynamic Threat Analysis (DTA) scanner, we at Team Nautilus detected …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Scanning Registries at Scale with Rules-based Image Pulls

Let’s face it, the demands of modern application development put tremendous pressure on Dev. Just to keep up with production demands, most developers have to keep numerous images available in their registries. These images include production images, images being built and pushed regularly, recent “known good” images, outdated images, and more. With such a bloated …

Shift Security Left, Then Shift Up

Many of you may be familiar with the shift left security approach in which security is built in at an early stage of the application development life cycle. It is easier and more effective to do it early, rather than discover security issues later in the game, when applications are already deployed. When issues are …

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