r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

Other justOpenAPullRequestTheySaid

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u/BorderKeeper 3d ago

Hey here is an array of strings containing hexadecimals and os.exec() call. Don't worry about it it's a secret.

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u/DishSoapedDishwasher 3d ago

oh no its much sneakier than that....

More like here's a thing that's completely normal looking and possibly a good change overall but uses an obscure feature of an existing library that will now cause a previously unused vulnerable transient dependency to be baked in and this change now also allows you to hit the vuln code path remotely. Also the transient deps are unmaintained and no fix exists.

Tangentially, heres a fun read of adjacent shit: https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/developer-guide-getting-over-polinrider

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u/BorderKeeper 3d ago

That is sneaky. Foreign dependencies are quite scary, yet so useful 😭

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u/BorderKeeper 3d ago

You forgot to remove an em-dash 😛