Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

SecOps demands vigilance, but it requires visibility, too. With JFrog’s latest integration for Xray with AWS Security Hub, you can help make sure that discovered vulnerabilities are not just seen, but quickly acted on. AWS Security Hub is the cloud security posture management service available to AWS users. It provides central security administration across AWS accounts, performing security best practice checks, aggregating alerts, and enabling automated remediation.

Shifting security left means preventing developers from using unacceptably vulnerable software supply chain components as early as possible: before their first build. By helping assure that no build is ever created using packages with known vulnerabilities, this saves substantial remediation costs in advance. Some JFrog customers restrict the use of open source software (OSS) packages to only those that have been screened and approved by their security team.

The JFrog Security research team continuously monitors popular open-source software (OSS) repositories with our automated tooling to avert potential software supply chain security threats, and reports any vulnerabilities or malicious packages discovered to repository maintainers and the wider community. At times, we notice trends that are worth analyzing and learning from.

The JFrog DevOps Platform is your mission-critical tool for your software development pipelines. The results of key binary management events in Artifactory, Xray, and Distribution can reveal whether or not your software pipelines are on-track to deliver production-quality releases.

This past March we posted an analysis of a vulnerability in the Apache HTTP Server mod_sed filter module, CVE-2022-23943, in which a Denial of Service (DoS) can be triggered due to a miscalculation of buffers’ sizes. While analyzing this Apache httpd vulnerability and its patch, we suspected that although the fix resolved the issue, it created a new unwanted behavior. Our suspicion turned out to be true: we discovered that another way to cause a DoS was introduced.

A few weeks ago, a new version for Fastjson was released (1.2.83) which contains a fix for a security vulnerability that allegedly allows an attacker to execute code on a remote machine. According to several publications, this vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the “AutoTypeCheck” mechanism in Fastjson and achieve remote code execution. This Fastjson vulnerability only recently received a CVE identifier – CVE-2022-25845, and a high CVSS – 8.1.

The JFrog Security Research team is constantly looking for new and previously unknown software vulnerabilities in popular open-source projects to help improve their security posture. As part of this effort, we recently discovered a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Envoy Proxy, a widely used open-source edge and service proxy server, designed for cloud-native applications and high traffic websites.

In 2022, JFrog and ServiceNow engaged in a series of meaningful conversations around the state of DevSecOps and how the industry could benefit from tighter integrations with IT-Operations tools.

Supply chain security has received a lot of attention in recent years. And rightly so. Software vulnerability exploitation attacks have been a key tool in the hands of the hackers to hamper businesses, compromise sensitive data, and a cause of general sense of fear around open source software.

Stephen Chin is no stranger to having big ideas and implementing them to help the developer community. In the last twenty years he’s been involved in building open source IDEs, bootstrapping rich client libraries, maintaining JVM languages, and cultivating relationships with developers that do the same.