Legit Security has disclosed that its research team has recently discovered a dependency confusion, aka dependency hijacking or substitution attack, vulnerability in an archived Apache project, underscoring the urgent need to consider third-party projects and dependencies as potential weak links in software development, especially archived open-source projects that may not receive regular updates or security patches.
Legit’s researchers found the Apache Cordova app harness archived open-source project and explored the exploit of this misconfiguration in the wild, analyzing that the attacker could execute arbitrary code on the host machine where the vulnerable application is deployed by utilizing the privileges granted to the application, meaning the attack exploitation can result in remote code execution within the production environment.
Legit explores the implications of this attack, provides the disclosure timeline, spotlights the importance of proper configuration for package managers, and delivers recommendations.
You can read this disclosure here.
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New Dependency Confusion Vulnerability Discovered In Archived Apache Project
Legit Security has disclosed that its research team has recently discovered a dependency confusion, aka dependency hijacking or substitution attack, vulnerability in an archived Apache project, underscoring the urgent need to consider third-party projects and dependencies as potential weak links in software development, especially archived open-source projects that may not receive regular updates or security patches.
Legit’s researchers found the Apache Cordova app harness archived open-source project and explored the exploit of this misconfiguration in the wild, analyzing that the attacker could execute arbitrary code on the host machine where the vulnerable application is deployed by utilizing the privileges granted to the application, meaning the attack exploitation can result in remote code execution within the production environment.
Legit explores the implications of this attack, provides the disclosure timeline, spotlights the importance of proper configuration for package managers, and delivers recommendations.
You can read this disclosure here.
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