Packages and PyPI

Check for known vulnerabilities

• https://github.com/pyupio/safety-db and https://pyup.io/
• safety package: Safety checks your installed dependencies for known security vulnerabilities.

GPG

• Verifying PyPI and Conda Packages by Stuart Mumford (2016-06-21)
• Sign a package using GPG and Twine

pip security

• pip: Implement “hook” support for package signature verification

PyPI

• PEP 458 – Surviving a Compromise of PyPI (27-Sep-2013)
• PEP 480 – Surviving a Compromise of PyPI: The Maximum Security Model (8-Oct-2014)
• Making PyPI security independent of SSL/TLS by Nick Coghlan

Vulnerabilites in the Package Index

• Index Vulnerability: Unchecked File Deletion
• PyPI credential exposure on GitHub

PyPI typo squatting

• Typosquatting programming language package managers by Nikolai Tschacher (8 June, 2016)
• LWN: Typosquatting in package repositories (July 20, 2016)
• Building a botnet on PyPi by Steve Stagg (May 19, 2017)
• warehouse bug (pypi.org): Block package names that conflict with core libraries (reported at June 28, 2017)
• 2017-09-09: skcsirt-sa-20170909-pypi-malicious-code advisory

fate0:

• 2017-05-27 04:38 - 2017-05-31 12:24 (5 days): 10,685 downloads
• May-June, 2017
• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-June/030592.html
• http://blog.fatezero.org/2017/06/01/package-fishing/
• https://github.com/pypa/pypi-legacy/issues/644
• http://evilpackage.fatezero.org/
• https://github.com/fate0/cookiecutter-evilpy-package
• Packages (this list needs to be validated):
  • caffe
  • ffmpeg
  • ftp
  • git
  • hbase
  • memcached
  • mkl
  • mongodb
  • opencv
  • openssl
  • phantomjs
  • proxy
  • pygpu
  • python-dev
  • rabbitmq
  • requirement.txt
  • requirements.txt
  • rrequirements.txt
  • samba
  • shadowsock
  • smb
  • tkinter
  • vtk
  • youtube-dl
  • zookeeper
  • ztz
  • ...

See also:

• pytosquatting.org project

Example of typos:

• urllib, urllib2: part of the standard library
• urlib3 instead of urllib3

Links

• The Update Framework (TUF): Like the S in HTTPS, a plug-and-play library for securing a software updater.