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content: Update mitigation section for the Dependency Confusion threat. #1226

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Update mitigation section for the Dependency Confusion threat.
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11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion docs/spec/draft/threats.md
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Expand Up @@ -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).

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<details><summary>Typosquatting</summary>

*Threat:* Register a package name that is similar looking to a popular package
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