Securing your software supply chain is crucial for ensuring the integrity and security of the software you develop and deliver. Here are the top 8 security best practices for a secure software supply chain.

The JFrog Security research team constantly monitors open-source projects to find new vulnerabilities or malicious packages and share them with the wider community to help improve their overall security posture. As part of this effort, the team recently discovered a new security vulnerability in plexus-archiver, an archive creation and extraction package.

In today’s interconnected world, secrets are the keys to unlocking sensitive data and systems. Like hidden gems for attackers, any inadvertent exposure of these secrets could lead to data breaches, unauthorized access, and security compromises. As organizations adopt DevOps practices, artifacts containing secrets are often stored and shared across various stages of the software supply chain, amplifying the risk of exposure.

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).