ALL YOUR PACKAGES ARE BELONG TO US

Protecting your npm dependencies

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WHO AM I? 

Lead UI Engineer @Rapid7

 

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Jack of all trades master of none

Worst hangover I have ever had

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STORY TIME

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SO WHAT HAPPENED?

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i have a confession to make

Incidents

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ESLINT-SCOPE

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July 12th 2018

Steal data from .npmrc files

~10,000,000 weekly downloads

The attacker released a new version of the module which added a install script which fetched code from pastebin. This then sent the npmrc contents to the hackers.

  • Make all contributors enable 2FA

  • Ensure that you lock down package versions and use a package-lock file

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EVENT-STREAM

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November 26th 2018 (unnoticed for 2 months)

Steal Dash Copay Bitcoin wallets

~1,000,000 weekly downloads

Handover of package access

  • Ensure that you lock down package versions and use a package-lock file

  • Rethink how the community manages package ownership?

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CROSSENVS

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August 2nd 2017

Steal env properties

~700 downloads in total (similar attack used on another 40 packages)

Fake packages names that are close to existing packages

  • Check out the package information before installing

  • NPM added name checks

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ELECTRON-NATIVE-NOTIFY

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June 6th 2019

Steal bitcoin wallet data ($13 million USD in cryptocurrency )

~600 weekly downloads

Release new version of trusted dependency

  • Ensure that you lock down package versions and use a package-lock file

tools & workflows

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npm audit

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  • Added to npm v6

  • Runs after each npm install

  • All dev, bundled and optional dependencies.

  • Auto fix by running npm audit fix or run the recommended commands

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Snyk.io

  • Cloud based solution

  • Integration with multiple source control solutions

  • On demand or scheduled vulnerability scanning

  • Weekly reports

  • Dashboard  

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github

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  • Linked to your  github source

  • Growing vuln database

  • Potential integration with new package repository

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conclusion

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Questions?

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