Common Types of Issues
The various common security issues are:
- Denial of Service (DoS): A vulnerable package can be used to crash your site or consume excessive resources which leads to users unable to use your services.
- Malicious Prototype: If a package is open sourced attackers can make changes into a trusted package’s prototype to inject malicious code.
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): Sometimes vulnerable using package can allow attacker to run malicious script into trusted sites in intention to stealing of user data.
- Similar Packages: The attackers can publish malicious packages with names similar to original ones thus tricking the developers into installing them and resulting in addition of malicious code or some kind of backdoor into there code.
How to Fix Security Vulnerabilities with NPM ?
Node Package Manager(npm) is a package manager provided by NodeJS which is a JavaScript runtime environment. Using npm you can add packages to your project. When you install any package you get the count of security vulnerabilities, this vulnerabilities are exposed weaknesses that can be a security threat by attackers.
We will discuss How to Fix Security Vulnerabilities with NPM:
Table of Content
- Getting an audit
- Inspecting and fixing the vulnerabilities
- Common Types of Issues
- Best Practices for Management
- Automated Tools for Detection
- Updating and Patching
- Access Controls
- Monitoring Advisories