Package Manager CWEs
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technical depth 7
novelty 6
actionability 7
community 5
strategic 6
personal 7
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Package manager CWEs are directly actionable for supply chain security, a key concern for developer tooling.
Summary
A cross-tool analysis of package manager CVEs identifies persistent failure modes: archive extraction path traversal (CWE-22/59, e.g., Zip Slip) and argument injection into VCS commands (CWE-88). These recur across twenty years because each new package manager reimplements the same flawed patterns—partial fixes for separators, symlinks, and backslash handling don't prevent repeats. Design-level risks like install scripts running as the user are excluded from CVEs but cause more real-world compromise.