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Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The developer of the 'node-ip' project made the GitHub repository read-only after disputing the severity of a reported vulnerability (CVE-2023-42282).
The vulnerability involved incorrect identification of private IP addresses in non-standard formats, but the developer argued it had a dubious security impact.
The situation highlights ongoing issues with unverified CVE reports causing unnecessary panic and frustration for open-source project maintainers.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Clearly it wasn't maintained.

Lol. It's an IP library. IP classifications haven't changed. What could he possibly update?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a whole bunch of pull requests and issues sitting there for a start.

Personally I'd also update the example in the readme and set an engine value in the package.json file.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Then fork it and do that.

These projects are structured as hobbyist projects and get whatever time the maintainer can spare. I have projects like that, they're useful, but I'm not gonna prioritize them over... anything else, come to think of it.

The fact so many people treat a hobbyist project with one maintainer as critical infrastructure is insane, but that's on them. Everybody likes free software, nobody likes to help or pay the maintainer.