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A curated collection of security resources and tools for Node.js applications
Awesome Node.js Security resources
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Tools / Web Framework Hardening | |||
| Helmet | Helmet helps you secure your Express apps by setting various HTTP headers | ||
| koa-helmet | koa-helmet helps you secure your Koa apps by setting various HTTP headers | ||
| blankie | 52 | over 3 years ago | CSP plugin for |
| fastify-helmet | 411 | almost 2 years ago | fastify-helmet helps you secure your apps by setting important security headers |
| nuxt-security | 836 | almost 2 years ago | 🛡 Security Module for Nuxt based on OWASP Top 10 and Helmet |
| reporting-api | 3 | almost 2 years ago | Setup and collect CSP, Reporting API v0 and v1 reports to reliabily parse them to be processed by the user |
Tools / GitHub Actions and CI/CD Security | |||
| New dependencies advisor | GitHub Action adding comments to pull requests with package health information about newly added npm dependencies | ||
| OpenSSF Scorecard Monitor | Simplify OpenSSF Scorecard tracking in your organization with automated markdown and JSON reports, plus optional GitHub issue alerts | ||
Tools / Static Code Analysis | |||
| eslint-plugin-security | ESLint rules for Node Security. This project will help identify potential security hotspots, but finds a lot of false positives which need triage by a human | ||
| tslint-plugin-security | TSLint rules for Node Security. This project will help identify potential security hotspots, but finds a lot of false positives which need triage by a human | ||
| safe-regex | detect potentially catastrophic exponential-time regular expressions by limiting the star height to 1 | ||
| vuln-regex-detector | This module lets you check a regex for vulnerability. In JavaScript, regular expressions (regexes) can be "vulnerable": susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. If your application is used on the client side, this can be a performance issue. On the server side, this can expose you to Regular Expression Denial of Service (REDOS) | ||
| git-secrets | 12,504 | over 2 years ago | Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories |
| DevSkim | 920 | almost 2 years ago | DevSkim is a set of IDE plugins and rules that provide security "linting" capabilities. Also has support for CLI so it can be integrated into CI/CD pipeline |
| ban-sensitive-files | 64 | almost 2 years ago | Checks filenames to be committed against a library of filename rules to prevent storing sensitive files in Git. Checks some files for sensitive contents (for example authToken inside .npmrc file) |
| NodeJSScan | 2,405 | almost 2 years ago | A static security code scanner for Node.js applications. Including neat UI that can point where the issue is and how to fix it |
| NodeSecure CLI | 367 | almost 2 years ago | Node.js CLI that allow you to deeply analyze the dependency tree of a given npm package or a directory |
| Trust But Verify | 59 | over 4 years ago | TBV compares an npm package with its source repository to ensure the resulting artifact is the same |
| lockfile-lint | 788 | about 2 years ago | lint lockfiles for improved security and trust policies to keep clean from malicious package injection and other insecure configurations |
| pkgsign | 94 | about 7 years ago | A CLI tool for signing and verifying npm and yarn packages |
| semgrep | Open-source, offline, easy-to-customize static analysis for many languages. Some others on this list (NodeJSScan) use semgrep as their engine | ||
| npm-scan | 50 | about 5 years ago | An extensible, heuristic-based vulnerability scanning tool for installed npm packages |
| js-x-ray | 229 | almost 2 years ago | JavaScript and Node.js SAST scanner capable of detecting various well-known malicious code patterns (Unsafe import, Unsafe stmt, Unsafe RegEx, encoded literals, minified and obfuscated codes) |
| cspscanner | CSP Scanner helps developers and security experts to easily inspect and evaluate a site’s Content Security (CSP) | ||
| eslint-plugin-anti-trojan-source | 76 | over 3 years ago | ESLint plugin to detect and prevent Trojan Source attacks from entering your codebase |
| sdc-check | 140 | almost 3 years ago | Small tool to inform you about potential risks in your project dependencies list |
| fix-lockfile-integrity | 6 | almost 2 years ago | A CLI tool to fix weak integrity hash (sha1) to a more secure integrity hash (sha512) in your npm lockfile |
| Bearer | 2,112 | almost 2 years ago | A CLI tool to find and help you fix security and privacy risks in your code according to OWASP Top 10 |
| GuardDog | 635 | almost 2 years ago | GuardDog is a CLI tool to Identify malicious PyPI and npm packages |
Tools / Dynamic Application Security Testing | |||
| PurpleTeam | A security regression testing SaaS and CLI, perfect for inserting into your build pipelines. You don’t need to write any tests yourself. purpleteam is smart enough to know how to test, you just need to provide a Job file which tells purpleteam what you want tested | ||
Tools / Input Validation & Output Encoding | |||
| node-esapi | node-esapi is a minimal port of the ESAPI4JS (Enterprise Security API for JavaScript) encoder | ||
| escape-html | Escape string for use in HTML | ||
| js-string-escape | Escape any string to be a valid JavaScript string literal between double quotes or single quotes | ||
| validator | 23,192 | almost 2 years ago | An npm library of string validators and sanitizers |
| xss-filters | Just sufficient output filtering to prevent XSS! | ||
| DOMPurify | 14,245 | almost 2 years ago | a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG |
| envalid | 1,399 | almost 2 years ago | Envalid is a small library for validating and accessing environment variables in Node.js |
| data-guardian | data-guardian is a tiny, highly customizable lib which can mask sensitive data in arbitrary entities and can help with | ||
Tools / Secure Composition | |||
| pug-plugin-trusted-types | Pug template plugin makes it easy to securely compose HTML from untrusted inputs and provides CSP & CSRF | ||
| safesql | A tagged template ( ) that understands 's & 's query grammar to prevent | ||
| sh-template-tag | A tagged template ( ) that understands Bash syntax so prevents | ||
Tools / CSRF | |||
| csurf | Node.js CSRF protection middleware | ||
| crumb | 171 | almost 2 years ago | CSRF crumb generation and validation for |
| fastify-csrf | 154 | almost 2 years ago | A plugin for adding CSRF protection to |
Tools / Vulnerabilities and Security Advisories | |||
| npq | 958 | about 2 years ago | Safely install packages with npm or yarn by auditing them as part of your install process |
| snyk | Snyk helps you find, fix and monitor known vulnerabilities in Node.js npm, Ruby and Java dependencies, both on an ad hoc basis and as part of your CI (Build) system | ||
| node-release-lines | Introspection API for Node.js release metadata. Provides information about release lines, their relative status along with details of each release | ||
| auditjs | 223 | almost 2 years ago | Audits an NPM package.json file to identify known vulnerabilities using the |
| npm-audit | Runs a security audit based on your package.json using npm | ||
| npm-audit-resolver | Manage npm-audit results, including options to ignore specific issues in clear and auditable way | ||
| gammaray | 104 | over 6 years ago | Runs a security audit based on your package.json using the |
| patch-package | Allows app authors to create fixes for npm dependencies (in node_modules) without forking or waiting for merged PRs, by creating and applying patches | ||
| check-my-headers | 45 | over 3 years ago | Fast and simple way to check any HTTP Headers |
| is-website-vulnerable | 1,942 | about 2 years ago | finds publicly known security vulnerabilities in a website's frontend JavaScript libraries |
| joi-security | 44 | over 2 years ago | Detect security flaws in Joi validation schemas |
| confused | 704 | about 2 years ago | Tool to check for dependency confusion vulnerabilities in multiple package management systems. See for reference on the reasoning for this tool |
| nodejs-cve-checker | 6 | over 2 years ago | A simple tool that validates CVEs were published to NVD after a Node.js Security Release |
Tools / Security Hardening | |||
| hijagger | 288 | almost 2 years ago | Checks all maintainers of all npm and PyPI packages for hijackable packages through domain re-registration |
| snync | 43 | about 4 years ago | Mitigate security concerns of Dependency Confusion supply chain security risks |
| NopPP - No Prototype Pollution | 27 | almost 4 years ago | Tiny helper to protect against Prototype Pollution vulnerabilities in your application regardless if they introduced in your own code or in 3rd-party code |
| anti-trojan-source | 47 | over 3 years ago | Detect trojan source attacks that employ unicode bidi attacks to inject malicious code |
| express-limiter | Rate limiting middleware for Express applications built on redis | ||
| limits | Simple express/connect middleware to set limit to upload size, set request timeout etc | ||
| rate-limiter-flexible | Fast, flexible and friendly rate limiter by key and protection from DDoS and brute force attacks in process Memory, Cluster, Redis, MongoDb, MySQL, PostgreSQL at any scale. Express and Koa examples included | ||
| tor-detect-middleware | 14 | almost 3 years ago | Tor detect middleware for express |
| express-enforces-ssl | 194 | almost 6 years ago | Enforces SSL for Express based Node.js projects. It is however highly advised that you handle SSL and global HTTP rules in a front proxy |
| bourne | 172 | almost 2 years ago | drop-in replacement with prototype poisoning protection |
| fastify-rate-limit | 508 | almost 2 years ago | A low overhead rate limiter for your routes |
| secure-json-parse | 227 | almost 2 years ago | drop-in replacement with prototype poisoning protection |
| express-brute | 564 | over 5 years ago | A brute-force protection middleware for express routes that rate-limits incoming requests, increasing the delay with each request in a fibonacci-like sequence |
| allowed-scripts | 12 | about 2 years ago | Execute allowed lifecycle scripts |
| ses | 845 | almost 2 years ago | A shim for Hardened JavaScript, a language mode that mitigates prototype pollution attacks and supports safely confining multiple tenants in a single JavaScript realm, endowing each other with hardened API objects |
| lavamoat | 881 | almost 2 years ago | Mitigates supply chain attacks using to confine third-party dependencies and limit their access to host powers based on policies generated by trust-on-first-use static analysis |
| moddable | Implements Hardened JavaScript as the security model for embedded systems | ||
| is-my-node-vulnerable | 210 | almost 2 years ago | package that checks if your Node.js installation is vulnerable to known security vulnerabilities |
Data Sources | |||
| resource | A structured list of all the Node.js versions, the binary builds, the dependencies they include (npm, zlib, openssl) along with their versions, whether the release is a security release and whether it is an LTS | ||
| resource | 504 | almost 2 years ago | The GitHub repository maintains a directory with all the CVEs applied to Node.js runtime versions |
Security Incidents / Protestware supply chain security issues | |||
| PyPI package author of atomicwrites deletes his own code | |||
| left-pad | |||
| node-ipc | , Mariusz Nowak and their , Evan Jacobs and their , , , - all with regards to the Russian-Ukraine crisis | ||
| Open Souce Peace | 78 | about 4 years ago | The organization maintains a list of identified protestware incidents |
| 2022's Techcrunch protestware review | |||
| 2022's Snyk protestware types | |||
Security Incidents / npm and JavaScript specific security incidents and supply chain security issues | |||
| Socket | |||
| Socket | |||
| sonatype | |||
| Snyk | |||
| Phylum | |||
| https://www.landh.tech/blog/20241028-hidden-supply-chain-links/ | |||
| Sonatype | |||
| Snyk | |||
| stacklok | |||
| Adventures in Nodeland | |||
| Sonatype | |||
| landh.tech | |||
| Bleeping Computer | |||
| Sonatype | |||
| Socket | |||
| Sonatype | |||
| SC Media | |||
| Sonatype | , Tweets | ||
| Checkmarx | |||
| Darcy Clarke's blog | |||
| Phylum | |||
| bignum npm package | Supply Chain Attack Exploits Abandoned S3 Buckets to Distribute Malicious Binaries for | ||
| The Hacker News | , | ||
| Vulcan | |||
| Illustria on The Hacker News | |||
| The Hacker News | |||
| phylum | |||
| JFrog | |||
| Louisw Lang on Twitter | |||
| Aqua | |||
| TheHackerNews | |||
| Mend | |||
| darkreading | |||
| GitHub | |||
| Snyk | , | ||
| TheRegister | |||
| Aqua | |||
| Aqua | , | ||
| Checkmarx Security blog | |||
| Snyk advisory for event-source-pollyfill | , , | ||
| Snyk blog | , , | ||
| Checkmarx Security blog | |||
| TheHackerNews | |||
| TheRecord | |||
| TheRecord | |||
| Sonatype | |||
| Bleepingcomputer | , , , | ||
| the register | |||
| Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) | , , , , | ||
| arstechnica.com | |||
| Bleepingcomputer | |||
| zdnet.com | , | ||
| sonatype | , | ||
| zdnet | |||
| zdnet | |||
| Forbes Lindesay - Maintainer post-mortem | , | ||
| Snyk | , , | ||
| npm | , , | ||
| github issue | 2,185 | almost 8 years ago | , , , , , , |
| github issue | 125 | about 2 years ago | , , , , |
| GitHub issue | 41,159 | almost 2 years ago | , , , , |
| conventional-changelog repository update | 7,902 | almost 2 years ago | |
| CJ blog on typosquat packages | , , , , | ||
| left-pad.io | , , | ||
| BadJS | A resource for malicious incidents is - a repository of malicious JavaScript that has been found in websites, extensions, npm packages, and anywhere else JavaScript lives | ||
| npm zoo | 20 | almost 4 years ago | is an archive keeping track of the original malicious packages source code for educational purposes |
Educational / Newsletters | |||
| Node.js Security newsletter | JavaScript & web security insights, latest security vulnerabilities, hands-on secure code insights, npm ecosystem incidents, Node.js runtime feature updates, Bun and Deno runtime updates, secure coding best practices, malware, malicious packages, and more | ||
Educational / Articles | |||
| A Roadmap for Node.js Security | (original domain not available. See ) | ||
| 10 npm security best practices | |||
| OWASP Cheat Sheet Series - Node.js Security Cheat Sheet | |||
| What is a backdoor? Let’s build one with Node.js | |||
| The Anatomy of a Malicious Package | |||
| Why npm lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules | |||
| GitHub Actions to securely publish npm packages | |||
| Top 11 Node.js security best practices | Sqreen.com | |||
| A Tale of (prototype) Poisoning | |||
| Securizing your GitHub org | |||
| Research Case Study: Supply Chain Security at Scale – Insights into NPM Account Takeovers | |||
Educational / Research Papers | |||
| Deep dive into Visual Studio Code extension security vulnerabilities | |||
Educational / Books | |||
| Secure Your Node.js Web Application: Keep Attackers Out and Users Happy | by Karl Duuna, 2016 | ||
| Essential Node.js Security | by Liran Tal, 2017 - Hands-on and abundant with source code for a practical guide to Securing Node.js web applications | ||
| Securing Node JS Apps | by Ben Edmunds, 2016 - Learn the security basics that a senior developer usually acquires over years of experience, all condensed down into one quick and easy handbook | ||
| Web Developer Security Toolbox | Bundled Node.js and Web Security Books | ||
| Thomas Gentilhomme | book: | ||
| Node.js Secure Coding: Defending Against Command Injection Vulnerabilities | |||
| Node.js Secure Coding: Prevention and Exploitation of Path Traversal Vulnerabilities | |||
| Node.js Secure Coding: Mitigate and Weaponize Code Injection Vulnerabilities | |||
Educational / Roadmaps | |||
| Node.js Developer Roadmap | |||
Companies | |||
| Snyk | A developer-first solution that automates finding & fixing vulnerabilities in your dependencies | ||
| Sqreen | Automated security for your web apps - real time application security protection | ||
| NodeSource | Mission-critical Node.js applications. Provides N|Solid and Node Certified Modules | ||
| GuardRails | A GitHub App that gives you instant security feedback in your Pull Requests | ||
| NodeSecure | An organization of developers building free and open source JavaScript/Node.js security tools | ||
Companies / Hacking Playground | |||
| OWASP NodeGoat | 1,895 | over 2 years ago | The OWASP NodeGoat project provides an environment to learn how OWASP Top 10 security risks apply to web applications developed using Node.js and how to effectively address them |
| OWASP Juice Shop | 10,585 | almost 2 years ago | The OWASP Juice Shop is an intentionally insecure webapp for security trainings written entirely in Javascript which encompasses the entire OWASP Top Ten and other severe security flaws |
| DomGoat | Client XSS happens when untrusted data from sources ends up in sinks. Information and excercises on different sources, different sinks and example of XSS occuring due to them in the menu on the left-hand side | ||
doyensec/awesome-electronjs-hacking
0ex/more-awesome
conventional-changelog/commitlint
jesusprubio/strong-node
redis/ioredis
microsoft/tslib
wagoid/commitlint-github-action
koajs/koa-redis
okuuva/auto-save.nvim
brendonboshell/supercrawler
oslabs-beta/graphql-gate
liaoliaots/nestjs-redis
spa5k/uids-postgres
oliverwiegers/pentest_lab