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Malicious Package Affecting event-stream package, versions =3.3.6

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-EVENTSTREAM-72638
  • published 26 Nov 2018
  • disclosed 20 Nov 2018
  • credit Ayrton Sparling
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Introduced: 20 Nov 2018

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

event-stream is a toolkit to make creating and working with streams easy.

Version 3.3.6 was hijacked via a child dependency, flatmap-stream, which was overtaken by a malicious actor. The attacker has injected the malicious package which was used in order to steal bitcoins from wallets.

You can read more about the malicious code on our blog

See the vulnerability at flatmap-stream for more information.

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