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Bitwarden CLI distributed through NPM has been compromised. Bitwarden Statement on Checkmarx Supply Chain Incident. (community.bitwarden.com)

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[–] delcaran@feddit.it 6 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

It's not, it's a problem of every package manager that do not use sources and checksums, like rust and python. Take a look at this article that does a better job then me at explaining the situation.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 18 minutes ago

Thanks for the link. There have been a few people in this thread making this point, and I was considering asking them to elaborate so that I can gauge what my risk is from using pip for python. I appreciate you providing a resource so I can go learn more about this

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

In a recent analysis, Adam Harvey found that among the 999 most popular crates on crates.io, around 17% contained code that do not match their code repository.

17%!

Let me rephrase this, 17% of the most popular Rust packages contain code that virtually nobody knows what it does (I can't imagine about the long tail which receives less attention).

Given that he lied about the results of the analysis he is using to prove his point, I find it hard to trust anything in this article.

In the analysis, Harvey said only 8 repositories did not match their upstream repos. The other problems were issues like not including the VCS info, squashing history, etc.

EDIT: Also, I just noticed that he called it a "recent" analysis. It's roughly a two year old analysis. I expect things have improved a bit since then, especially since part of the problem was packaging using older versions of Cargo.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The good news is that there already is a gold standard for supply chain security: the Go programming language.

Lmfao

[–] bright_side_@piefed.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Competent standard lib + decentralized libs + checksum db.

While the article is a bit theatralic, it offers important arguments.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

There are some good points in it, though I wouldn't really consider go dependencies all that decentralized in practice and I don't understand how checksum db will protect against supply chain attacks with stolen credentials, but I admit I haven't looked into the details.