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Malicious Package Affecting nodes.js package, versions *

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-NODESJS-451630
  • published 16 Jul 2019
  • disclosed 16 Jul 2019
  • credit Ruian Duan
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Introduced: 16 Jul 2019

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

How to fix?

Avoid using nodes.js altogether.

Overview

nodes.js is a package that utilises typo-squatting to get a user to download a malicious package.

The package searches and installs globally thousands of packages based on keywords node, react, react-native, vue, angular and babel to fill the system's memory as a method of Denial of Service.