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Sublime Text flagged as security risk in corporate environments

#1

Hello,

Sublime Text was recently flagged as a security risk. The message shown is “Executable RESTRICTED” / “The Executable has been Restricted by GroupIT”.

This is making it impossible to run it anymore in enterprise/corporate environments.

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#2

This is likely something only your IT Security department can fix.

All applications are properly signed and don’t contain any tracking or maleware, which justifies Antivirus software to take action.

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#3

Curiousity only … nothing more … in case I hit this with use … I casually searched

QUOTE:
Based on the provided search results, there is no evidence of a direct, formal “view” or official stance by CrowdStrike on the Sublime Text editor application itself.

However, the search results indicate a strong connection between CrowdStrike and Sublime Security , an email security company. [1, 2]

  • Investment & Partnership:
    Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of CrowdStrike, participated in the Series A funding for

    Sublime Security

Contextual Use:

Users in the Reddit community suggest using Sublime Text as a text editor to mass-edit and format CVE data for searching within the CrowdStrike Falcon console.

… merely pointing out that Sublime and Falcon can be used in different context. I am guessing that Falcon hails from 25 years old Falcon anti fraud project (from memory)

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#4

Ok, i justed want to raise this to check if it’s not a false positive.
Otherwise it might be only some corporate licensing policy (preconceptions).

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#5

Wow “corporate environments”, you’ve got your Innovator, he’ll guide you for sure

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#6

Not sure what you are driving at @klo in your short contribution, but it is a quite valid concern that rogue code can be injected into any tool. Search this in your browser “can a virus be hidden in subl text package?” And I followed Falcon anti-fraud technology (part of HNC pre 2000) and “Falcon” keyword triggered curiousity. So yes “corporates” or anyone must be wary of unverified packages offered as trojan horses. Surely. Caveat emptor.

Here is another crude Google search … “viruses hidden in sublime text” … make of it what you will.

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