Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
Every package ecosystem handles install-time code execution differently. Some are permissive, some restrictive, and the differences matter for supply chain security.
Almost every package manager supports post-install hooks that run arbitrary code. This is the most abused feature in supply chain attacks.
Symbolic links in package archives can redirect file operations to unintended locations. Here is how this old trick still works against modern tools.
Package archives can contain path traversal sequences that write files outside the expected directory. Most developers never check for this.
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