Re: [elixir-core:5996] Potential risk of fetching dependencies from Git

2016-06-27 Thread Eric Meadows-Jönsson
First of I'd like you to thank you Bram for looking into potential security issues and starting discussions about what you find. We need more people doing that. Also, your discussions with the core team and your blog post made me find this issue https://github.com/hexpm/hex/issues/243 in the Hex

[elixir-core:5996] Potential risk of fetching dependencies from Git

2016-06-27 Thread Bram Verburg
Hi, The other day I wrote a post on security best-practices around dependencies (https://blog.voltone.net/post/5). One of the issues I raised was the risk of unexpected code execution when pulling in dependencies from Git repositories: "mix deps.get" recursively installs any sub-dependencies,