Open Source Security
In-depth guides and analysis on open source security from the Safeguard engineering team.
412 articles
Cargo crate vulnerability trends report
RustSec advisories rose 38% year-over-year as crates.io passed 195,000 packages. A breakdown of where Cargo's supply-chain risk is concentrated in 2026.
Malicious Rust crates found on crates.io
Malicious crates keep surfacing on crates.io, from the rustdecimal typosquat to build-script payload attacks. Here's how the pattern works and how to defend against it.
Unsafe Rust code vulnerability patterns
RustSec advisories tied to unsafe code keep climbing. Here's how unsound FFI, transmute misuse, and unchecked indexing become real exploits.
Rust supply chain security landscape
Rust's crates.io has topped 170,000 packages and real attacks are following. Here's what's changed and how security teams should respond.
Building an OSPO security governance model for license and vulnerability risk
77% of large organizations now run an OSPO, and 91% say it owns security issues — but most still track license and CVE risk in separate spreadsheets.
RustSec advisory database trend report
RustSec crossed 200 advisories by July 2026, revealing a shift from memory bugs to malicious typosquats, unsound "safe" APIs, and abandoned crates.
Typosquatting on crates.io report
Safeguard's research team scanned all of crates.io and flagged 312 likely typosquat candidates — here's what the data shows and how Rust teams should respond.
CocoaPods trunk supply chain vulnerability report
Three CocoaPods trunk server flaws sat unpatched for a decade, exposing 1,866 orphaned pods to takeover. Here's what happened and how to defend your dependencies.
Swift Package Manager vulnerability trends
Typosquats, thin CVE coverage, and an executable manifest format: inside the Swift Package Manager vulnerability trends security teams can't ignore.
Malicious iOS SDKs and CocoaPods report
CocoaPods trunk server CVEs and the SourMint SDK scandal reveal how malicious iOS SDKs and pods slip past App Review for years.
Mobile app dependency vulnerability trends
Mobile apps now ship more third-party code than first-party. Safeguard's analysis breaks down where dependency vulnerabilities cluster and why.
Common Go module vulnerability patterns and how govulncheck helps
Two real CVEs in Go's path/filepath package and a growing SSRF problem in webhook handlers show why Go's safety guarantees don't cover application logic.
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