Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
spyder-ide/spyder
master @ 4ca304b
7
Fixes
0
CVEs
MEDIUM
Peak severity
50.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Denial of Service: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
binder/environment.yml: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Improper Integrity Check: The update manager previously relied on simple file-size validation rather than secure cryptographic checksums, exposing the application to malicious payload substitution.
Insecure Communication: Update-checking workers utilized an unverified SSL context via urllib.urlopen, leaving update discovery vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks.
Insecure Temporary File: Temporary certificates and keychains were written to shared temporary paths, exposing them to local symlink attacks and access collisions.