Agent WranglersAPS-76Recommended
Treat a machine that installed a bad package as breached
When a package version you installed is reported malicious, treat every laptop and build server that installed it as breached. Rotate every credential those machines could read.
How to do it
Search the lock files of every project, and the caches of build servers and package mirrors, for the bad versions. Pin a version released before the attack, and reinstall from the lock file. Rotate source host tokens, cloud keys, registry tokens and the secrets in your build settings. Use the job from Rotate secrets automatically where you have one. Then look for changes the attacker made, such as new repositories, workflows or webhooks. Keep evidence first, as Keep evidence in security incidents says.
Examples
Shell example
npm ls example-widget --all
grep -rn "example-widget==" --include="requirements*.txt" .How to check
Run a drill with a made-up bad version of one package. Within one working day, the team lists every machine that installed it. Every credential on those machines has a new value, and each old value is refused.
Sources
Related rules
- INF-27 Rotate secrets automatically in Infrastructure and environments
- OPS-30 Keep evidence in security incidents in Operations and observability
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