A new vulnerability, CVE-2021-342 has been discovered in the Splunk indexer component, which is a commonly utilized part of the Splunk Enterprise suite. We’re going to explain the affected components, the severity of the vulnerability, mitigations you can put in place, and long-term considerations you may wish to make when using Splunk.
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. Two days ago, several of our automated analyzers started alerting on a set of packages in the npm Registry.
You hear a lot about shifting your application security (AppSec) left – in other words, shifting AppSec to the beginning of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). While we firmly believe that you should continue scanning in development environments, that doesn’t mean that you should neglect applications that have been deployed to or staged in runtime environments.