Mining Threat Intelligence about Open-Source Projects and Libraries from Code Repository Issues and Bug Reports

Abstract-- Open-Source Projects and Libraries are being used in software development while also bearing multiple security vulnerabilities. This use of third party ecosystem creates a new kind of attack surface for a product in development. An intelligent attacker can attack a product by exploiting one of the vulnerabilities present in linked projects and libraries. In this paper, we mine threat intelligence about open source projects and libraries from bugs and issues reported on public code repositories. We also track library and project dependencies for installed software on a client machine. We represent and store this threat intelligence, along with the software dependencies in a security knowledge graph. Security analysts and developers can then query and receive alerts from the knowledge graph if any threat intelligence is found about linked libraries and projects, utilized in their products. I. INTRODUCTION In the normal course of software development, developers and coders rely on various open source projects and libraries. Open source projects and libraries comprise of source code that is open for anyone to inspect, modify, update or enhance [17].