Malicious Package Affecting nodes.js package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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- published 16 Jul 2019
- disclosed 16 Jul 2019
- credit Ruian Duan
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.