livealight

Very neat! Did a similar project with AI generated images. Fun for days with this kind of cheap hardware!

Thanks! It definitely passed the weekend well - do share if you end up building it!

It let log4j pass for as long as it was known to be good. Within hours of the CVE opening the tool was blocking it. The purpose of dependency firewalls is to avoid two things: known badly vulnerable packages AND known malicious packages that serve no other purpose than to steal data or drop a trojan. No security is 100% bulletproof, but it's really surprising how much of the damage is done by 7 year old CVEs. Firewalls can be useful in exactly that.

Nexus Lifecycle / Nexus Auditor tends to be useful for this - in absence of a package.json it crawls the raw js files and finds their source. It can help figure out things like embedded jqueries etc. That being said, it has the same limitation as other tools - minification and bundling obfuscates origins and makes it harder to assign identity to the source package.

The only way that I can think of getting around this is to have a hard requirement for a source registry - or asking the premium plugin producers to produce a SBOM like cyclonedx or spdx and evaluate that in lieu.