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Clarify meaning of empty version list #135

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funnelfiasco opened this issue Dec 13, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #138
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Clarify meaning of empty version list #135

funnelfiasco opened this issue Dec 13, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #138

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@funnelfiasco
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funnelfiasco commented Dec 13, 2024

This came up in guacsec/guac#2366. This repo is not clear on the meaning of an empty version list. My colleague interpreted it as "there are no known malicious versions of this package." I understand it to mean "all versions are known malicious," for example the Python aiohtttps package, which is a typosquat. An explicit explanation would help consumers of this repo.

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ikretz commented Dec 16, 2024

Hi @funnelfiasco, thank you for raising this issue.

These cases come from the earliest days of the project when version info wasn't attached to the sample names. Around 250 PyPI packages are affected. In these cases, your interpretation is correct: all versions should be considered malicious.

I have clarified this in the README in the linked PR.

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