Malware alerts now cover more ecosystems via OpenSSF

The GitHub Advisory Database now ingests malware advisories from the OpenSSF malicious-packages repository, significantly expanding the breadth of malware data available to you through Dependabot alerts.

What changed

With this update, advisories from the OpenSSF malicious-packages project are automatically ingested into the GitHub Advisory Database, giving you broader coverage across ecosystems including npm, PyPI, and more. You can view these using the type:malware filter.

If you have malware alerting enabled, Dependabot will now match your dependencies against this expanded set of malware advisories and alert you when a match is found.

What this means for you

You get broader ecosystem coverage. Malware advisories now cover additional ecosystems beyond npm, powered by the OpenSSF community’s malicious-packages data.

If you already have malware alerting enabled, you will automatically benefit from the expanded coverage without any additional configuration needed. New advisories will generate alerts as they are published.

Getting started

If you haven’t enabled malware alerting yet, navigate to your repository or organization Settings → Code security → Dependabot and enable Malware alerts under the Dependabot alerts section.

You can browse malware advisories directly at github.com/advisories.

To learn more, check out our docs about Dependabot malware alerts.

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