Research with Snyk and Redhunt Labs: Scanning the top 1000 orgs on GitHub

The recent research project conducted by Snyk and Redhunt Labs scanned the top 1000 GitHub organizations for insecure dependencies in their source repositories, finding a total of 11,900 repositories with potential security vulnerabilities. The most prevalent vulnerability types were deserialization of untrusted data, prototype pollution, high or critical vulnerabilities in Python, and critical or high category vulnerabilities in Ruby repositories. The study highlights the importance of maintaining up-to-date dependency versions to prevent security breaches, and provides insights into the security posture of popular GitHub repositories.