On Wednesday, October 4th 2023, Daniel Stenberg, one of Curl’s core maintainers announced that a forthcoming release of Curl, version 8.4.0, is scheduled to be available on October 11th 2023 at approximately 06:00 UTC. The upcoming release will include fixes for two Curl vulnerabilities that they had discovered. One of these vulnerabilities is rated as having low severity (CVE-2023-38546), whereas the second one is considered high severity (CVE-2023-38545).

Every year, JFrog brings the DevOps community and some of the world’s leading corporations together for the annual swampUP conference, aimed at providing real solutions to developers and development teams in practical ways to prepare us all for what’s coming next.

Today’s software applications power almost every aspect of our lives, and ensuring the security of these applications is paramount. Threat actors can cause devastating consequences for companies, leading to financial losses, reputational damage, and legal repercussions. Companies building commercial or in-house applications must adopt robust security measures throughout their software development lifecycle to avoid releasing vulnerable code.

AI and machine learning (ML) have hit the mainstream as the tools people use everyday – from making restaurant reservations to shopping online – are all powered by machine learning. In fact, according to Morgan Stanley, 56% of CIOs say that recent innovations in AI are having a direct impact on investment priorities. It’s no surprise, then, that the ML Engineer role is one of the fastest growing jobs.

When scanning packages, CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) scanners can find thousands of vulnerabilities. This leaves developers with the painstaking task of sifting through long lists of vulnerabilities to identify the relevance of each, only to find that many vulnerabilities don’t affect their artifacts at all.

Tracking vulnerabilities and compliance requirements is essential for maintaining application security in any software project. However, this process can be time-consuming and complicated, especially as new issues are identified. Fortunately, the JFrog build-info provides a comprehensive solution by recording key information about your project’s build. With build-info, you can easily track vulnerable versions of your project and ensure that your software stays secure.

In 2022, nearly 1,700 entities across the globe fell victim to software supply chain attacks, impacting over 10 million people. Nearly each of these attacks included some element of faulty or nefarious open-source code. Software developers commonly rely on open-source components to speed up the development process, but as we can see, this practice has the potential to introduce malicious packages and vulnerabilities into the code due to the lack of proper curation and maintenance.

Spring Security’s newly released versions contain a fix for a broken access control vulnerability – CVE-2023-34034 – which was given a critical NVD severity (CVSS 9.8) and a high severity by Spring’s maintainers.

A potential security risk in the npm ecosystem known as “manifest confusion” has recently been spotlighted in a blog post by Darcy Clarke, a former Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub. Clarke mentioned that JFrog Artifactory seems to replicate this issue, so of course we investigated it right away. In this post, we will explain what the issue is and what it might mean for JFrog Artifactory users.

Modern organizations are constantly striving to gain a competitive advantage by delivering software solutions at a remarkable pace. To achieve this, they heavily rely on open-source software (OSS) libraries and packages, which constitute a significant portion (80-90%) of their software solution. However, while open-source software offers numerous benefits, it also presents potential security challenges.