Recommendations for OpenSource security issues
CA Southern Africa has revealed details of the 2023 Veracode State of Software Security report into the factors that introduce flaws in application development, one of which the research notes is the great unknown of open source.
Some of these dependencies then introduce further dependencies. This continues through to the top three items in this discussion, namely flaw introduction, technical debt accumulation and lifecycle management. “The report notes that not reinventing the wheel has obvious rewards, but open source is not free. It cedes control and introduces external dependencies. For each publicly disclosed vulnerability, one can only speculate how many undisclosed and undiscovered vulnerabilities there really are waiting to hit the news and launch us all into the next panic,” says de Lucchi.