Attackers are now looking beyond production servers and targeting the tools developers keep on their laptops. Packages, editor extensions, browser add‑ons and AI tool configurations sit on developer machines and can be exploited the moment a vulnerability is disclosed. Security teams often struggle to answer a simple question: which developer endpoints are exposed right now? Traditional software bills of materials and vulnerability scanners only look at built artifacts or repositories, while endpoint detection and response tools monitor running processes and network traffic but ignore the static files that reveal what is actually installed locally.
Bumblebee fills that gap. It is a read‑only scanner written in Go with no external dependencies that collects an inventory of language package lockfiles, extension manifests and AI configuration files without executing any install scripts or invoking package managers. Because it never runs npm, pip, go or similar commands, it cannot trigger malicious post‑install hooks. The tool works in three profiles: a baseline scan of common global and user locations, a project‑focused scan of directories like ~/code, and a deep scan that can sweep an entire home directory during an active incident. Each run outputs newline‑delimited JSON records to stdout, with diagnostics sent to stderr, making it easy to feed into cron jobs, launchd, systemd or MDM systems.
Security teams supply their own exposure catalogs listing ecosystems, package names and affected versions. When Bumblebee finds a match it emits a finding record that includes hostname, OS, architecture, ecosystem, package, version, source file, confidence level and a reference to the catalog entry that triggered the alert. This gives a clear, traceable view of which machines are at risk without altering them.
Because it is lightweight, dependency‑free and open sourced under Apache 2.0, Bumblebee can be deployed quickly across macOS and Linux fleets to give security teams the visibility they need to react fast to supply‑chain threats.
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