Alert Categories
How package issues are categorized by Socket
Socket detects 60+ security red flags divided over the following set of categories:
Supply chain risk
| Severity | Description |
|---|---|
| Critical | Package contains a critical supply chain risk that makes it unsuitable for use in most applications. This category is reserved for known malware, typosquats, HTTP dependencies, and other critical threats. |
| High | Package contains a supply chain risk that makes it unsafe to use in most applications until a manual inspection has been performed to confirm that the package is safe. |
| Medium | Package contains a medium-risk supply chain security issue. Critical applications in areas such as finance, health, regulated industries, should manually inspect medium-risk issues. |
| Low | Package contains a low-risk supply chain security issue. |
Quality
| Severity | Description |
|---|---|
| Critical | Package has critical quality issues that make it unsuitable for use in all applications. Examples include an invalid package.json which fails to parse, or unresolved requires which import files that do not exist. |
| High | Package contains a high-risk quality issue. |
| Medium | Package contains a medium-risk quality issue. |
| Low | Package contains a low-risk quality issue. |
Maintenance
| Severity | Description |
|---|---|
| Critical | Package has critical maintenance issues that make it unsuitable for use in all applications. |
| High | Package contains a high-risk maintenance issue. |
| Medium | Package contains a medium-risk maintenance issue. |
| Low | Package contains a low-risk maintenance issue. |
Vulnerability
| Severity | Description |
|---|---|
| Critical | Package contains a critical CVE that makes it unsuitable for use in all applications. You should update to a fixed version immediately. |
| High | Package contains a high-risk CVE. You should update to a fixed version as soon as reasonably possible. |
| Medium | Package contains a medium-risk CVE. |
| Low | Package contains a low-risk CVE. |
License
| Severity | Description |
|---|---|
| Critical | Package has a critical license issue that makes it unsuitable for use in most applications. Package should immediately be replaced with a different one to avoid significant legal risk. |
| High | Package has a license issue that makes it a risk for use in most commercial applications. Package should be examined by a legal expert, or additional license metadata added to the package to make it safe for use. |
| Medium | Package contains a medium-risk license issue. |
| Low | Package contains a low-risk license issue. |
Updated 7 months ago