Malicious Package
Affecting event-stream package, versions =3.3.6
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.
References
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
CVSS Score
9.8
high severity
-
Attack VectorNetwork
-
Attack ComplexityLow
-
Privileges RequiredNone
-
User InteractionNone
-
ScopeUnchanged
-
ConfidentialityHigh
-
IntegrityHigh
-
AvailabilityHigh
- Credit
- Ayrton Sparling
- CWE
- CWE-506
- Snyk ID
- SNYK-JS-EVENTSTREAM-72638
- Disclosed
- 20 Nov, 2018
- Published
- 26 Nov, 2018