CAST Highlight SCA Chrome Extension

Check health of Open Source components directly from forge websites (github, gitlab, npmjs...)
What is CAST Highlight SCA Chrome Extension?
CAST Highlight SCA Chrome Extension is a tool that allows you to check the health of Open Source components directly from forge websites such as GitHub, GitLab, and npmjs. It provides insights on versions, security vulnerabilities (CVEs), and license risk and compliance.

Extension stats

Users: 565 ▲ 27
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 0.0.20 (Last updated: 2023-12-13)
Creation date: 2021-12-13
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • cookies
Host permissions:
  • https://doc.casthighlight.com/
Size: 71.80K

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Extension summary

Visualize versions, security vulnerabilities (CVEs), license risk and compliance of Open Source repositories directly from forge websites (github, gitlab, npmjs...), maven, packagist, nuget, etc.

Steps to use this extension:

  1. Once installed, visit one of the supported repository urls (e.g., https://www.npmjs.com/package/swagger-ui) and click on the extension icon.
  2. Login by using your CAST Highlight credentials or with a user token (SSO/SAML authentication is not supported)
  3. See information on the repository such as vulnerabilities (CVEs), licenses, released versions, etc.

Installation and usage instructions: https://doc.casthighlight.com/install-use-cast-highlight-sca-browser-extension/

CAST Highlight is a software intelligence product for rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Open Source risks, Resiliency, and Agility. It combines objective software insights with qualitative surveys for business context.

User reviews

nice
by Soloman Barghouthi, 2023-12-12
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Extension safety

Risk impact

CAST Highlight SCA Chrome Extension requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

CAST Highlight SCA Chrome Extension has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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