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.
  • jetAEnglish
    71·
    5 months ago

    100%. I think the developer taking the project read only was not a temper tantrum, it was just them signifying they don’t have time to maintain it. So now if you want anything to happen you must fork it.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      471·
      5 months ago

      I find this outcome delightful for all the compliance mandated organizations that are leaching with no intention to contribute back.

      It could be really helpful for developers at pure leech organizations to make a case for being ready to contribute in an agile manner.

      Now they’re all stuck waiting on either a good Samaritan, or their lawyers to get out of the way of progress.

      I have little doubt that the fix has been committed to private forks dozens of times already, of course.

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
        18·
        5 months ago

        This whole debacle is a festival of stupidity:

        • It’s a personal project that taxes the sole maintainer disproportionately.
        • Millions of idiots use it blindly and end up building elaborate software on it. https://xkcd.com/2347/
        • I’ll bet you 99.99% of those idiots use it only for ip.isPrivate(), which you can write yourself in 5 minutes.
        • The CVE is a non-issue (who the fuck would call a function that takes string notation with hex numbers?)
        • Appealing and reverting or downgrading CVEs is super complicated.

        At this point the maintainer is fucked no matter what they do, so archiving the project and telling everybody to fuck off right back was really the only sane thing to do.