AuraBorealisApp: Visualizing Python Package Registry Security Audit Data

AuraBorealis: Do You Know What’s In Your Python Packages?

AuraBorealis is a web application for visualizing anomalous and potentially malicious code in Python package registries. It uses security audit data produced by scanning the Python Package Index (PyPI) via Aura, a static analysis designed for large-scale security auditing of Python packages. The current tool is a proof-of-concept and includes some live Aura data, as well as some mockup data for demo purposes.

Current features include:

• Scanning the entire python package registry to:
  • List packages with the highest number of security warnings, sorted by Aura warning type
  • List packages sorted by the total and unique count of warnings
  • List packages by their overall severity score
• Displaying security warnings for an individual package, sorted by criticality
• Visualize the line numbers and lines of code in files generating security warnings for a specific package
• Compare two packages for security warnings

Install

Turn on your VPN (at IQT)

Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/IQTLabs/AuraBorealisApp.git

Navigate to an aura-borealis-flask-app directory.

cd aura-borealis-flask-app

Install dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the app.

python app.py

Navigate to the URL http://0.0.0.0:7000/ via a browser.

Source: https://github.com/IQTLabs/