Re: Maven Repository Security issues: any war stories?

2020-02-28 Thread Slawomir Jaranowski
Hi, In maven world all artifacts have pgp signature which is created by current maintainer (from some time pgp signature is required on Maven Central). You can verify signatures of all your dependencies, you can also track which pgp key is used for specific artifact. So if maintainer of some art

Re: Maven Repository Security issues: any war stories?

2020-02-28 Thread Manfred Moser
The order of repositories in a pom, settings and repo manager is crucial. Some companies use their own repos on top since they trust them the most. I have seen internal teams deploying patched version into those which then essentially override the real dep from central. This is a feature and is

Maven Repository Security issues: any war stories?

2020-02-28 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
Folks, A colleague is preparing a presentation on general dependency security issues. I'm not aware of any compromises of the Maven repo system such that a malicious actor was able to push malware to client systems, but I'm not sure it's never happened. Does anyone know about anything like the at