The popular open source project, 'ip' had its GitHub repository archived, or made "read-only" by its developer as a result of a dubious CVE report filed for his project. Unfortunately, open-source developers have recently been met with an uptick in debatable or outright bogus CVEs filed for their projects.
  • The developer of the ‘node-ip’ project made the GitHub repository read-only after disputing the severity of a reported vulnerability (CVE-2023-42282).
  • The vulnerability involved incorrect identification of private IP addresses in non-standard formats, but the developer argued it had a dubious security impact.
  • The situation highlights ongoing issues with unverified CVE reports causing unnecessary panic and frustration for open-source project maintainers.
  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    195·
    3 days ago

    Clearly it wasn’t maintained.

    Lol. It’s an IP library. IP classifications haven’t changed. What could he possibly update?

    • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
      41·
      2 days ago

      There’s a whole bunch of pull requests and issues sitting there for a start.

      Personally I’d also update the example in the readme and set an engine value in the package.json file.

      • lemmyvoreEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Then fork it and do that.

        These projects are structured as hobbyist projects and get whatever time the maintainer can spare. I have projects like that, they’re useful, but I’m not gonna prioritize them over… anything else, come to think of it.

        The fact so many people treat a hobbyist project with one maintainer as critical infrastructure is insane, but that’s on them. Everybody likes free software, nobody likes to help or pay the maintainer.