Exploring the SECURITY.Md in the Dependency Chain: Preliminary Analysis of the PyPI Ecosystem

Security policies, such as SECURITY.md files, are now common in open-source projects. They help guide responsible vulnerability reporting and build trust among users and contributors. Despite their growing use, it is still unclear how these policies influence the structure and evolution of softwa...

OpenSSL 3.0.7 update assessment

OpenSSL 3.0.7 update assessment Summary The vulnerability in the OpenSSL Security Advisory of Dec 13 2022 do not affect any active Node.js release lines. Analysis Our assessment of the security advisory is: X.509 Policy Constraints Double Locking CVE-2022-3996 Node.js doesn't call OpenSSL as a...

CVE-2022-39213 Out-of-bounds Read in go-cvss

go-cvss is a Go module to manipulate Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS. In affected versions when a full CVSS v2.0 vector string is parsed using ParseVector, an Out-of-Bounds Read is possible due to a lack of tests. The Go module will then panic. The problem is patched in tag v0.4.0, by th...