diff --git a/docs/spec/draft/threats.md b/docs/spec/draft/threats.md index d541533f6..592251890 100644 --- a/docs/spec/draft/threats.md +++ b/docs/spec/draft/threats.md @@ -775,9 +775,18 @@ The consumer requests a package that it did not intend. on the victim's internal registry, and wait for a misconfigured victim to fetch from the public registry instead of the internal one. -**TODO:** fill out the rest of this section +*Mitigation:* The mitigation is for the software producer to build internal +packages on a SLSA Level 2+ compliant build system and define expectations for +build provenance. Expectations must be verified on installation of the internal +packages. If a misconfigured victim attempts to install attacker's package with +an internal name but from the public registry, then verification against +expectations will fail. + +For more information see [Verifying artifacts](/spec/v1.1/verifying-artifacts) +and [Defender's Perspective: Dependency Confusion and Typosquatting Attacks](/blog/2024/08/dep-confusion-and-typosquatting). +
Typosquatting *Threat:* Register a package name that is similar looking to a popular package