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2025 Report: Destructive Malware in Open Source Packages
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pyraider
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Using PyRaider You can scan installed dependencies known security vulnerabilities. It uses publicly known exploits, vulnerabilities database.
Using PyRaider You can scan installed dependencies known security vulnerabilities. It uses publicly known exploits, vulnerabilities database. Documentation

pyraider using pip or pyenvpip install pyraider
pyenv install pyraider
pyraider -h
Using PyRaider you can scan the vulnerable packages.
pyraider go command.It will automatically detects the installed packages and scans against it and shows the report.
pyraider go
requirements.txt or Pipfile.lock file.pyraider check -f /Users/raider/project/requirements.txt
pyraider check -f /Users/raider/project/Pipfile.lock
PyRaider currently supports
JSON,HTMLandCSVformats.
JSON file.pyraider go -e json result.json
pyraider check -f /Users/raider/project/requirements.txt -e json result.json
CSV file.pyraider go -e csv result.csv
pyraider check -f /Users/raider/project/requirements.txt -e csv result.csv
HTML file.pyraider check -f go -e html result.html
pyraider check -f /Users/raider/project/requirements.txt -e html result.html
Using PyRaider you can check the latest packages. Against installed packages.
pyraider validate -p django==1.11.13
pyraider validate -f /Users/raider/project/requirements.txt
pyraider validate -f /Users/raider/project/Pipfile.lock
PyRaider also supports
fixfeature. Using this you can fix the vulnerable packages.
Note: To updating the packages might affect your application.
You can fix vulnerable package.
pyraider fix
pyraider fix -s high
You can also autofix vulnerable packages.
pyraider autofix
pyraider autofix -s high
Now you can update the resource database with latest updated vulnerabilities
pyraider updatedb
You can also run
pyraiderhas a docker container.
docker build -t pyraider .
FAQs
Using PyRaider You can scan installed dependencies known security vulnerabilities. It uses publicly known exploits, vulnerabilities database.
We found that pyraider demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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